The story behind the cherry blossom
When I was born, my grandfather planted a cherry tree. Sakura doesn’t fight to bloom all year round. It lives fully in the season it’s given, then lets go, then blooms again. That’s the philosophy this whole practice is built on: not forcing yourself into constant performance, but coming back into contact with yourself, season by season.
I believe we’re all born in contact with our bodies, our food, and our emotions. Then adults, systems, and diet culture teach us to sever that contact: to override hunger and distrust our own body signals. My work is about helping you find your way back.
What I believe
I believe in connections and parallels. Patterns rarely stay in one place. The way you speak to your body usually echoes the way you speak to yourself more generally, and both usually echo something further back. Nothing in a person exists on its own.
Food is never separate from anxiety, from thought, from feeling. It’s not a symptom to isolate and fix, it’s one thread in a person who is, underneath everything, whole. I don’t work with “an eating pattern” or “a body image issue” in isolation. I work with the whole person, and the relationships and environment they live inside.
Acceptance, to me, isn’t giving up. It’s not resignation. It’s the platform you stand on before anything can actually shift. And meaning isn’t something you go looking for, hoping to stumble onto it somewhere out there. You build it, deliberately, out of whatever season you’re actually in.
Music, sound, and a change I didn’t choose
I trained as a music theory teacher and grew up with absolute pitch. Sound, rhythm, and structure were a natural part of how I experienced the world. They were things I felt intuitively rather than things I had to consciously analyse.
Later in life, my hearing changed in a way I didn’t choose and couldn’t control. Losing something that had always been such an important part of who I was was not easy. I learned that the first step was not fighting against a reality I could not change, but learning to meet it with acceptance.
That experience shaped the way I understand acceptance today. It is not just an idea I have studied. It is something I have had to practise, live with, and return to again and again. It has taught me that acceptance is not giving up. It is creating space to move forward, even when life does not unfold the way we expected.
Curious if we’d be a good fit?
You don’t need to have it all figured out before reaching out. A short conversation is often enough to know whether this feels right for you.
Who I am, professionally
I’m Yana Madorski, a Master’s-qualified, ACA Level 2 Registered Counsellor, working with adults across Australia and internationally, in English and Russian. I specialise in emotional eating, binge eating support, body image, and anxiety, working from an anti-diet, values-led approach. My training includes Relational Frame Theory (RFT), Eating Disorders Clinical Foundations, the 8-week Eating Disorders Comprehensive course with placement at DocMed Academy, and Psychiatry Foundations for Counsellors. I’m a registered Bupa provider.
My practice is trauma‑informed, compassionate and tailored to each person’s needs. My approach is gentle and empathic; we’ll move at your pace. And more than anything, I understand how easily food, stress and self‑worth can become intertwined and how freeing it feels when those patterns begin to soften.
Why you can trust me
My work is grounded in formal clinical training and specialised education:
The approaches I draw on in sessions
Ready to feel peace with your body and food again?
If you are ready to stop stress‑eating, end the “good all day, binge at night” cycle, and stop fighting your body, you don’t have to figure it out alone. I’m here to help you stop feeling like you’re failing at something everyone else seems to manage.
Take the first step. Let’s start with a free, no-obligation conversation to see if we are a good fit.
Location: available online via secure telehealth counselling platform.
Для русскоязычных клиентов: Сессии также доступны на русском языке для людей, сталкивающихся с тревогой вокруг еды, перееданием и давлением соответствовать «идеалу».