A psychologist who meets you where you are.
Mike Spiller is a registered psychologist who supports people navigating trauma, anxiety, emotional overwhelm, relationship difficulties, and significant life transitions. Working with clients in Toowong, across Brisbane, and via telehealth across Australia, he aims to create a therapy space that feels safe, collaborative, and grounded in genuine understanding.
With nearly two decades of experience across public mental health services and private practice settings in Queensland and New Zealand, Mike has supported people through complex and deeply personal challenges. Many of the people he works with appear capable and functional on the outside while internally carrying significant stress, self-pressure, unresolved pain, or longstanding patterns that feel difficult to shift alone.
Mike's approach is shaped by the belief that even amidst pain, anxiety, stress, or self-doubt, people carry strengths and capacities that can be rediscovered and strengthened over time. Therapy is approached as a collaborative process — one that helps people better understand themselves, navigate difficult experiences with greater clarity and self-compassion, and move toward meaningful and lasting change.
Drawing from evidence-based approaches including EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), ACT, and attachment-informed approaches, Mike works collaboratively with clients to foster emotional resilience, self-understanding, confidence, and a deeper sense of connection with themselves and others.
- B.A. Hons (First Class Honours in Psychology), Victoria University of Wellington (NZ)
- Registered Psychologist — AHPRA
- Associate Member — Australian Psychological Society (APS)
- Full Member — EMDR Association of Australia (EMDRAA)
- Level 2 IFS Trained (Internal Family Systems Therapy)
“Therapy is a space where we are gently invited to turn toward ourselves with curiosity and compassion.”
— Mike Spiller
Therapy shaped around you.
Mike’s approach to therapy begins with understanding your unique experiences, goals, and what feels most supportive for you.
As a registered psychologist in Toowong, Mike supports people navigating stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, emotional overwhelm, and significant life transitions. Therapy may involve developing practical strategies to manage everyday challenges, while also exploring the deeper experiences, patterns, and protective ways of coping that may be contributing to distress.
Drawing from evidence-based approaches including EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), ACT, and attachment-informed therapy, Mike works collaboratively with clients to foster insight, emotional resilience, self-understanding, and meaningful change. Sessions are available in person at the Toowong practice and via secure Telehealth across Australia.
EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing is a structured and evidence-based therapy that helps people process traumatic experiences, reduce the intensity of triggers, and feel less emotionally stuck in the past.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
A compassionate and non-pathologising approach that helps you understand the different “parts” of yourself — including those that feel protective, overwhelmed, conflicted, or stuck — while strengthening a calmer and more connected relationship with yourself. Mike is Level 2 IFS trained.
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
ACT helps develop greater psychological flexibility — supporting you to respond differently to difficult thoughts and emotions while moving toward actions that reflect your values and the life you want to build.
Motivational Interviewing
A collaborative and person-centred approach that helps strengthen motivation, confidence, and readiness for change — particularly when uncertainty, self-doubt, or ambivalence are making things feel difficult to move forward.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
CBT offers practical strategies for recognising unhelpful thought patterns and behavioural cycles, supporting positive change in areas such as anxiety, depression, stress, and emotional overwhelm.
Trauma-Informed Care
All of Mike’s work is grounded in an understanding of how trauma can shape the nervous system, relationships, identity, and emotional responses — helping therapy feel safe, paced, collaborative, and genuinely supportive.
The meaning behind our icon
The Lumaura icon reflects two enduring symbols: the rising sun and the human form. Together, they represent hope, renewal, and the resilience carried within each person — even during life’s more difficult seasons.
It is a reminder that healing is rarely about becoming someone new, but about reconnecting with clarity, strength, and the parts of ourselves that may have been lost, overwhelmed, or forgotten along the way.