About
Why "Golden Gate"?
The name comes from the Golden Gate Bridge — not as a place of despair, but reclaimed as what a bridge actually is: a way across. Therapy here is about choosing to cross over, at your own pace, toward something better.
Karim Arabi
Karim is a PACFA-registered psychotherapist working with children, adolescents and adults. His work spans anxiety, mood, stress, school and study difficulties, and the everyday weight of living in a world that wasn't designed with your brain in mind.
A particular focus of the practice is neurodiverse adults — autistic and ADHD adults who have often spent years being misread, mis-referred, or handed strategies built for someone else. Therapy at Golden Gate starts from how your mind actually works. You won't be asked to mask to be helped.
Karim also delivers two structured programs for young people: the Cool Kids Anxiety Program (developed by Macquarie University's Centre for Emotional Health) and Study Without Stress.
How we work
Warm and direct. Sessions are collaborative — we name what's happening, agree on what we're working toward, and use approaches with real evidence behind them. Nothing extraneous; nothing performative.
Therapeutic approaches
- CBT
- DBT
- ACT
- Person-Centred Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Gestalt
- Psychodynamic
- Interpersonal
- Exposure Therapy
Registration
Karim is registered with PACFA (Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia), practising under its code of ethics and continuing professional development requirements. Sessions are not eligible for Medicare rebates, but some private health funds cover psychotherapy, and self- or plan-managed NDIS participants are welcome — see the FAQ for details.