Feel comfort in your uniqueness

Gestalt therapy, embodiment counselling and mindfulness for clients curious about identity, expression, queerness and understanding relational dynamics.

Are you searching to make deeper, more fulfilling connections?

Do you want to feel your vulnerability become your strength?

Ready to make sense of anxiety or avoidance in your relationships?

Have a FREE 15 minute consultation with Dabaco to see if you’d like to work together.

Dabaco specialises in

  • Are you looking for a therapist that understands the nuances of queer identity and relating? Being able to feel comfortable and understood is foundational to a successful therapy process. Dabaco prides himself on working at the forefront of LGBTQ+ issues and is continually expanding his knowledge.

  • Do you find yourself struggling to navigate non-traditional relating due to a lack of confidence, know-how and support? Ethical non-monogamy is growing in popularity and yet the required relational sensitivity and communication skills aren’t taught to us. Gestalt Therapy and Emotionally Focussed Therapy are two beautiful modalities that can gently tend to relational issues, validating challenging emotions and returning to what is alive in the present moment.

  • Have you recently undertaken or are planning on taking a plant medicine journey? Integration is such an important aspect of this healing work and yet is often forgotten. Dabaco holds a supportive and non-judgemental space for you to prepare, set intentions and then help integrate what came up for you on your journey.

  • Are you looking to deepen your relationship with nature? To learn how to feel connected and supported by the natural world around us. Dabaco can take a session outside the therapy room and work with mother nature as a co-therapist. This style of therapy requires you to stay open in the moment and be curious about spontaneous nature events. What messages might they carry for you?

Who is Dabaco?

Dabaco Sunset (he/they) is an accredited psychotherapist trained in the modalities of Gestalt Therapy and Emotionally Focussed Therapy.

Spending most of his time in private practice working with individuals, couples and polycules, Dabaco also facilitates workshops, trainings and retreats.

Dabaco’s style is anchored in the deep wisdom of the body; following clues of sensations, intuition and messages carried in emotions. Their work weaves together meditation techniques, creative experiments and gentle curiosity to help raise awareness to patterns hiding in the shadows.

Dabaco sees clients in person on Tuesdays and Wednesday at The Genki Centre in Glebe, Sydney.

Online sessions are available on Thursdays and Fridays via Zoom.

What clients say

  • I found my sessions with Dabaco a safe space to explore sensitive topics around sexuality, dating, relationships and identity with a variety of perspectives and insights. Dabaco helped to guide and structure conversations by asking open ended questions and assisting me to gather and comprehend my own thoughts and feelings.

    — Glen

  • I highly recommend Dabaco if you are looking for a queer friendly safe space. He was able to establish a strong trust bond early in our sessions. Dabaco gave me things to think about and work on, and practical ways to do this. By the end of my sessions, I felt like I had made solid progress with my mental health and mended connections with loved ones in my life.

    — Alex

  • Dabaco’s incredibly caring approach helped me to feel safe to express myself authentically in a way I haven’t experienced with other therapists. I learned how to safely express anger and was able to talk freely about my alternative style of relating, without any judgement. I can see how our work together has positively affected all parts of my life.

    — Phoebe

  • I came so much more into my own. I went from someone who would feel alone and isolated in my queerness and it's relationship to spirituality to fully owning and embracing my queerness and allowing myself to explore my sensuality and sexuality with those who previously intimidated me.

    — Ezel

  • I think my perspective of myself has changed from working with Dabaco. Originally thinking I just fit into the 'gay' category, but I feel like there's so much more to the world of queer to deny certain aspects of human experience. It's a moving spectrum and being in one label is quite restricting where queer is much more powerful and freeing.

    — Sam

What is Gestalt Therapy?

Gestalt therapy is a relational modality in which the therapist walks alongside the client on their journey of insight and process. Through the study of contact between therapist and client the two are working along the razor’s edge of relating. How things show up in the therapy space can provide insights into patterns that might be reoccurring in the client’s life outside.

Think of it as a way to raise awareness to patterns that might not be serving you any longer. Therapy gives you a choice point to change the pattern and carve out a new of being in the world.

Gestalt is a German word that roughly translates as ‘shape’ or ‘whole’. In this context it is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. You are far greater than the sum of your parts.