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Hello, my name is Francis (he/him).

I am a diversity-friendly clinical psychotherapist based in Derawun (aka Potts Point / Kings Cross, which is on unceded Gadigal country). I have been working one-on-one with adults (18 years and over) since 2012, on issues dealing with change, relationships, identity, inner-soul-work, culture, gender, spirituality, sexuality, etc.

I work with people, starting with where you are at and what brings you in for therapy. Some people prefer to hear the jargon as well, so if I had to describe my theoretical frameworks and expertise, I blend psychodynamic, somatic (body-focussed), creative (gestalt), IFS, person-centred, and existential therapies.

In the spirit of creating safer spaces, international best-practice guidelines recommend therapeutic self-disclosure and positioning statements*, especially for folks who may come from marginalised backgrounds. So, a bit about me, so you can get a sense of whether I may be a safer person for you to engage with in your therapeutic journey.

I am a gay, cisgender man, a person of colour, born into culturally-diverse South-East Asia. Having been educated in an international school, I migrated to Australia in my teens. I started my own personal psychotherapy journey after some painful life lessons about relationships, and about myself. So I found a therapist who I felt understood me, and I enrolled in a masters degree in psychotherapy and counselling.

From 2017-2021, I was part of the amazing, diversity-friendly Imanadari Counselling team. In 2018 I was admitted to the Australian Progress Fellowship for my work with LGBTI-supportive faith and multicultural communities during the Marriage Equality Yes Campaign. In 2019 I undertook professional supervision training with the Centre for Existential Practice. From 2021-2025, I completed studies in Eastern Medicine (acupuncture and herbal medicine) as a natural complement to my somatic and holistic health journey.

If you feel some of this resonates with you, I look forward to hearing from you and let’s see if we can work with each other on this next step of your journey.

~ Francis

Francis Voon

PACFA Reg. Clinical, M Couns App Psych, B TCM, BA, Grad Dip Ed, B Theol, Dip Bus, CPE

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* Combined Biography & Positioning Statement

I acknowledge that I live, love and work on the unceded lands of the Gadigal, and yearn for a day when the work of healing and justice especially for First Nations people is not linear but circular.

I am a gay, cisgender man and person of colour, with lived experiences of migration, polycultural balancing, religious discrimination, ageism, racism, religiously & culturally based queerphobia, sexually racist lateral violence, intergenerational trauma, linguistic and profession-based discrimination. These experiences of discrimination and violence coexist alongside the privileges I acknowledge as cisgender, male, able-bodied, sighted, hearing, speaking, mobility, literate, lighter-skin, allistic, middle-class, city-based, anglo-centric & tertiary education, citizenship, fluent anglophone, heteronormatively-perceived, monogamous-kinship-perceived, self-employment, easy access to health, food, technology and resource privileges.

I have had access to opportunities across the multiverses of education, religious, cultural, health, not-for-profit, advocacy, queer/LGBTIQA+/rainbow/gender-bodily-kinship-sexuality celebratory, diversity-friendly, nonviolence and performing arts. I have enjoyed educating, supervising and presenting to colleagues and university students on issues of psychotherapy, intersectionality and social justice. As a psychotherapist & supervisor, my interests are somatic, psychodynamic, jungian, gestalt, narrative, existential, and creative in expression.

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Acknowledgement of Country: I acknowledge the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia, and honour Elders past and present, the traditional custodians of country, whose sovereignty of land, waters, and community endures and was never ceded.