Dr Matea Doroc
Dpsych (Clinical) | Grad Dip (Forensic Psych) | MAPS
Principal Psychologist | The Whole Perspective
Matea offers a warm, thoughtful space where clients can feel heard, respected, and supported. Her approach is grounded in curiosity, care, and a genuine interest in each person’s story. She works collaboratively with clients to explore what feels difficult, understand patterns, and consider what support may be helpful.
Support that looks beyond symptoms
Practice Overview
The Whole Perspective is a private psychology practice, supporting people across Melbourne’s western suburbs through personalised psychological care.
The practice offers a calm, grounded and non-judgmental space to explore and navigate life's challenges. Using evidence-based psychotherapy we consider each person’s needs, goals, and circumstances to support meaningful change and help create a more balanced, healthy and fulfilling life.
Appointments are available in person and via tele-health, depending on suitability.
Our Therapeutic Approach
At The Whole Perspective, therapy is an active and collaborative process that helps people make sense of their experiences, respond to life’s challenges in healthier ways, and create meaningful, lasting change.
Grounded in a Schema Therapy lens, sessions explore how patterns, emotional responses, beliefs, and coping styles may have developed over time and how they may continue to influence current difficulties. Because no two people are the same, we may also integrate complementary evidence-based approaches to support more considered and adaptive ways of responding to life's challenges.
How we can support you
Emotional & Personal Challenges
Anxiety, depression and stress
Support for people experiencing anxiety, low mood, stress, or emotional pressure, with space to understand what may be contributing.
Self-criticism and self-worth
Explore patterns of self-criticism, perfectionism, or low self-esteem, and how they may influence relationships, choices, and wellbeing.
Detachment and isolation
A supportive space to explore feelings of disconnection or isolation, and the coping patterns that affect your daily life.
Trauma & difficult experiences
A non-judgemental space to reflect on difficult experiences and how they continue to shape emotions, coping patterns and relationships.
Fear of abandonment, shame, guilt
A respectful space to explore feelings of shame, guilt, or fear of abandonment, and how these experiences may shape self-worth, relationships, and emotional responses.
Unhelpful patterns and addictions
Support to understand repeating patterns, coping patterns, or addictive behaviours, including how they may have developed and why they no longer feel helpful or sustainable.
Life Transitions & Stressors
Grief, loss and adjusting to events
Support to explore grief, loss, and life changes. This may include shifts in emotions, identity, connection, and ways of coping.
Major life changes
A reflective space to navigate transitions such as career change, parenthood, relationship changes, or other shifts in life direction.
Procrastination and burnout
Support to understand procrastination, burnout, and patterns of pressure or avoidance that may be affecting daily functioning and wellbeing.
Interpersonal & Relational Difficulties
Interpersonal challenges
Support to better understand relational patterns, boundaries, and challenges that may show up across personal, family, social, and workplace relationships.
Communication problems
A space to understand communication patterns, emotional responses, and challenges expressing needs, feelings, or perspectives in relationships.
Strong emotions and relationships
Support to make sense of anger, frustration, and strong emotions, including what they may be connected to and how they impact relationships.
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