About Annika
Annika Tregonning is the founder of Saga Psyche and a psychotherapist, educator, and performing artist based in Sassafras in the beautiful Dandenong Ranges.
A creative foundation
Before training as a psychotherapist, Annika built a career in music, teaching, and performance. As the founder and director of the Victorian Vocal Academy, she has spent many years teaching singers of all levels, from beginners finding their voice for the first time to professional performers stepping onto the stage. Her work as a teacher and performer gave her an intimate understanding of the inner world of the creative: the vulnerability, the self-doubt, the profound joy, and the deep psychological terrain that artistic life inhabits.
The path to psychotherapy
It was this deep fascination with the human interior, with what drives us, what holds us back, and what allows us to flourish, that led Annika to study psychotherapy. Having experienced firsthand the transformative power of the therapeutic relationship, she was drawn to offer that same experience to others. She holds a Bachelor of Counselling and Psychotherapy and is a registered member of the Australian Counselling Association (ACA).
Today, Annika continues to teach at the Victorian Vocal Academy, where she works with singers and performers in a dedicated educational setting. Alongside this, she offers individual psychotherapy and mentoring at Saga Psyche, a wholly separate and confidential clinical practice. While each operates in its own distinct and professional context, a genuine care for personal growth and development flows through both, supporting people to find their voice in all senses of the word.
A safe and collaborative space
At Saga Psyche, Annika is committed to creating a warm, relational, and collaborative therapeutic environment. Drawing on a range of evidence-based modalities including psychodynamic, person-centred, existential, metacognitive, somatic, and cognitive behavioural (CBT) approaches, she works in an integrative framework, tailoring her practice to the unique needs and story of each client.
She works with adults navigating depression, anxiety, stress, trauma, grief and loss, burnout, relational difficulties, life transitions, and self-esteem concerns. She also offers performance and wellbeing coaching for singers and artists seeking to explore the connection between their inner world and their creative practice.
About the name
Saga is a word rooted in Annika's Swedish heritage. In Old Norse and Swedish, a saga is an epic story, a journey of depth, meaning, and transformation. Psyche comes from the Ancient Greek, meaning soul, mind, and self. It is also the root of psychotherapy and the name of a figure from Greek mythology whose story is one of transformation, courage, and the soul's journey toward wholeness.
Together, Saga Psyche means the epic story of the soul, a name that reflects Annika's deep belief that every person who walks through the door carries a story worth telling, and a life worth living fully.