I’m Soren Ashley, a psychologist committed to depth, honesty, and the slow, relational work of change. My practice is rooted in a deep respect for the complexity of human experience, and shaped by both formal training and lived life.
A Path Through Complexity
I grew up on a forested farm on the mid-north coast of NSW, where the natural world first taught me about connection, resilience, and stillness. As a child, I was curious and adventurous. As a teenager, I navigated emotional terrain that would shape my work today—a search for belonging, encounters with suffering, and the beginning of a long relationship with healing practices like meditation, yoga, and embodied movement.
These early experiences led me into psychology—not just as a profession, but as a vocation. Over the past decade, I’ve worked in non-profits, public mental health, and private practice. My clinical foundations are solid (BSc Hons, MPsych), but the heart of my learning has come from the people I’ve worked with and the questions we’ve explored together.
How I Work
I offer individual, couples, family, and group therapy, with group work at the centre of my practice. My approach is relational, experiential, and influenced by Irvin D. Yalom’s philosophy of group therapy as a “laboratory for living.” I also draw from depth psychology, mindfulness, and mythopoetic traditions—ways of working that honour the unconscious, the symbolic, and the body as sources of wisdom.
I see therapy not as fixing, but as a process of remembering and reweaving—gently contacting the parts of ourselves that have been exiled, silenced, or forgotten. This process is informed by my commitment to nonviolence and embodied compassion. It’s less about controlling symptoms, and more about cultivating the conditions in which healing can naturally unfold.
Living the Work
The values that guide my work—presence, slowness, simplicity, connection with nature—are not just ideas; they’re how I live. Movement, mindfulness, and creative practice are woven into my everyday life. I train in ways that support strength and adaptability, cook with care, and tend to my own inner life with the same curiosity I bring to the work I do with clients.