About Ari Wylder
Meet Ari
Mental Health & Grief Counsellor
BTh, MSW, AASW Accredited
Ari Wylder (he/him) is a counsellor and social worker with over ten years’ experience supporting people through complexity, identity, trauma, and life transitions. Drawing on work across hospital, disability, palliative care, and community settings, Ari offers an affirming, collaborative, and values-led approach, with particular experience supporting LGBTIQA+ people, disabled clients, carers, ageing individuals, and those with complex trauma. You can expect a respectful and empathetic therapeutic space that centres your lived experience and supports you to move forward in ways that feel meaningful and sustainable.
Ari has lived and living experiences that overlap with those of many clients he supports, which often help him to more deeply understand clients. If therapeutically appropriate, he is open about this with clients.
Outside of work, Ari likes to spend time outdoors wandering along nature trails, and awkwardly dancing in his kitchen to ‘70’s hits.
Treatment Modalities
Ari is trained in the provision of numerous focussed psychological strategies (FPS). The FPS he utilises depends upon the client’s presenting condition and preferences - some FPS work for some people and not for others; that's why Ari is flexible in his approach.
The FPS which he most often uses are Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Psychodynamic Therapy (PDT), and Interpersonal Therapy (IPT). However, his approach is dynamic and for certain conditions he will use other FPS such as Exposure Response Prevention (ERP), Schema Therapy, and Prolonged Grief Disorder Therapy (PGDT).
Funding
Ari is currently registered to provide services to clients who receive funding from various services and organisations, such as NDIS, Victims Services, Financial Assistance Scheme (formerly known as VOCAT), and the Transport Accident Commission.
He knows that it’s hard for clients with certain types of funding to find a counsellor who meets their complex needs, and who will accept their funding source. He is committed to trying to work with whichever funding source, wherever possible.
Professional Development
Ari is a deep believer in lifelong learning and intentional practice. Research is constantly growing and evolving, and it’s important to him to stay up to date with this so that he can provide evidence based best practice for his clients.
Ari receives his own regular clinical supervision, as well as providing supervision to other clinicians. He is currently undertaking professional development training in EMDR (level 1 & 2), and anticipates being able to provide this from May 2026.
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Melbourne, Australia
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Ari Wylder acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation as the sovereign custodians of the lands on which he lives and works. This land was stolen and never ceded. He offers respect and gratitude to their elders past, present, and emerging. This land always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.
