Dr Lisa Nikulinsky is an Australian/UK psychotherapist, cultural researcher, and creative-industries practitioner whose work sits at the intersection of music, identity, and mental health. Based in Margaret River, Western Australia, she brings more than three decades of clinical experience to her practice, working with adolescents, adults, creatives, and families.

Her therapeutic approach is relational, depth-oriented, and neuroaffirming. She integrates modalities including EMDR, Schema, Internal Family Systems (IFS), schema therapy, and psychodynamic psychotherapy, with particular sensitivity to ADHD and neurodivergent presentations. Her work is grounded in attunement, collaboration, and the belief that psychological healing occurs within safe, meaningful relationships.

Alongside clinical practice, Dr Nikulinsky is an established academic author. She has contributed chapters to publications with Oxford University Press and Bloomsbury Academic, focusing on youth culture, music, and wellbeing. Her forthcoming monograph, Rural Youth: Music, Identity and Mental Health, further explores how subculture and sound shape adolescent development and belonging in regional contexts.

Her work bridges psychotherapy and contemporary culture, drawing from electronic music, hip hop, and youth subcultures to inform both research and practice. This dual engagement in clinical and creative worlds allows her to speak fluently to artists, cultural workers, and young people navigating identity in complex social landscapes.

Dr Nikulinsky practices through Dr Lisa Nikulinsky & Associates, offering in-person sessions in a garden-based studio and online across Australia.

Clinical interests include: grief and loss; supporting both men and women in relationship challenges; existential threat and search for meaning; depression and anxiety symptoms; Neurodivergence including ADHD and Autism; chronic illness and life transitions -parenting; midlife; psychedelic integration. This practice offers clients an opportunity to access a contemporary therapeutic space, utilising a range of evidence based modalities and interventions including: Schema Therapy; Narrative therapy; Socratic questioning (CBT); Internal Family Systems (IFS); psychodynamic and transpersonal psychology; compassion theories; bio-hacking; philosophy and the arts.

The Medicare-approved counselling and psychotherapy practice is located in central Margaret River in purpose built rooms set within a tropical garden environment.

I’m inspired by invention and the opportunity to craft something new from scratch. I’m inspired by remixing and being subversive. I am inspired by disruption and tenderness. I am inspired by imagination. I am inspired by grief, mourning and lament. I believe deeply in vulnerable, generative spaces for healing. I am inspired by rest, daydreaming and sleep (Hersey, 2022).