My name is Mojdeh (Mozh- deh).
I am a mental health social worker and therapist with over 17 years of experience across Australian community services, specialising in trauma and developmental trauma.
My career has included work at Griefline, family violence services including The Orange Door, and child and infant mental health services with Berry Street, Take Two, and Barwon Health's Infant and Child Mental Health service. Across this work, I have supported children, adults, and families — including neurodivergent children, and migrant and refugee communities — navigating trauma, loss, and complex circumstances, with a strengths-based, neuro-affirming approach that honours each person's unique way of experiencing and engaging with the world.
Beyond individual and dyadic therapy, my career has also included advisory and leadership roles, including Family Violence Expert and Advisor, Team Leader, and Program Manager of Safer in the Home with The Salvation Army. I have contributed to high-risk and low-risk family violence casework, including presenting at RAMP (Risk Assessment and Management Panel), and co-facilitated the Hamdel Project, a prevention of violence against women initiative.
This depth of experience across child and family mental health means that whether you're bringing your child to therapy for the first time, or seeking support for yourself, I understand how important it is to feel safe, heard, and met without judgement — and I bring that understanding into every session at Little Ocean.
About me
Education and Professional memberships
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Master of Social Work — Deakin University
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Master of Counselling — Monash University
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Member — Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW)
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Full Member — EMDR Association of Australia (EMDRAA)
Therapeutic Approach
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Strengths-based and collaborative practice
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Trauma-informed practice
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
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Dyadic and parent-child work
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Neurodevelopmentally informed and NMT-informed practice
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EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing)
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Emotional regulation and co-regulation
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Neurodiversity-affirming and culturally responsive practice
My approach
Like the ocean, our inner world can hold many things at once - calm and turbulence, vulnerability and strength. Therapy is not about removing every difficult wave. It is about finding ways to move through them with greater safety, connection and confidence.
My work is warm, strengths-based, collaborative and trauma-informed. Rather than focusing only on symptoms or behaviours, I look at what may be happening underneath them - shaped by a person's experiences, relationships, culture and environment.
When working with the children, I see behaviour as a form of communication. I work with children and the important adults around them to build safety, connection, regulation and confidence.
For adults, therapy is a space to slow down, make sense of experiences and patterns, and build on your strengths - you do not need to arrive with everything figured out.
I offer therapy in English, Persian/Farsi and Dari, and welcome people from diverse cultural and life experiences.
For the storms, the calm, and everything in between.