What Can Therapy Help With?
Therapy can help with a wide range of emotional and behavioural problems including but not limited to: anxiety, anger management, habit disorders, eating disorders, sleep problems, stress management, behaviour management, sexual dysfunction, relationship and communication problems, trauma and PTSD, depression, pain management, conflict resolution, loss and grief, bed wetting and functional gut disorders exacerbated by stress or emotional symptoms (Irritable Bowel Syndrome, functional abdominal pain, functional chest pain, functional diarrhoea, constipation).
Who Do We Work With?
We treat people of all ages: children, adolescents, parents, families, couples and adults.
Types of Therapy Offered
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) is the most effective form of therapy for treatment of mental health problems.
CBT works on the premise that it is not what happens that causes how we feel and what we do, but how we think about what happens. CBT uses a collection of cognitive, behavioural and emotive strategies. It works by identifying thoughts, feelings, behaviour and environmental factors that maintain problems. CBT develops solutions to these problems through: deepening feelings, restructuring thoughts and emotional regulation.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Dialectical behavior therapy is an evidence-based psychotherapy that is used in the treatment various mental health issues, including BPD, bipolar disorder, anxiety and depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), eating disorders, and substance abuse.
DBT’s main goals are to teach people how to develop healthy ways to cope with stress, live in the moment, regulate their emotions, and improve their interpersonal relationships with others
Hypnotherapy
Clinical hypnosis is a successful and evidence based verbal intervention that uses a special mental state of enhanced receptivity to suggestion to facilitate therapeutic psychological and physiological changes. Treatment sessions begin with an induction of the hypnotic state followed by deepening of the altered state with the aid of counting, physical relaxation and guided mental dissociation from the here-and-now. In the hypnotic state clinical intervention is composed of targeted verbal suggestions and therapeutic imagery to encourage improvement in functional gut symptoms. Imagery and suggestions commonly aim at regulating smooth muscle activity, reducing the impact of stress on GI symptoms, reducing gut pain perception and attention to symptoms, and increasing the client’s sense of control over symptoms.
EMDR
EMDR treatment targets and effectively works to resolve emotional distress that has arisen because of traumatic incidences. EMDR is used in the treatment of phobias, panic attacks, PTSD, depression, substance abuse, complicated grief and personality disorder. There is a substantial amount of scientific evidence supporting EMDR as a treatment for traumatic memories.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness is the opposite of thinking. It is shifting into sensing mode and being. Mindfulness offers a way of freeing oneself from automatic and unhelpful ways of thinking and responding. Techniques include body scan, noticing and then shifting one’s attention away from thoughts and feelings, acceptance of uncomfortable feelings and leading a values driven life.
Eating Disorders
Up to 40 individual Medicare rebatable sessions for treatment of complex eating disorders (bulimia, anorexia nervosa). Tania will also be running group therapy for people with eating disorders throughout the year.
Other Services
We also offer
- Full diagnostic assessments for ASD, ADHD and SLD
- Cognitive Learning and Behavioural Assessments
- Legal Reports
- Telehealth (medicare rebates available) for rural and remote areas
- Couples and family therapy
Sessions and Fees
Sessions last for 50-60 minutes, and telehealth sessions are available. Fees vary according to practitioner.
We offer medicare rebates if you have a doctors referral as well as limited bulk billing and discounted rates for pensioners and health care card holders.
You do not need a referral to make or attend an appointment, but you will need one to claim medicare rebates.
Next Steps
You are welcome to book directly via our online system or for more information, or to discuss your specific requirements and circumstances please speak to our friendly reception team.
