Services

Individual Counseling: Involves a space where you can talk over your concerns with a qualified psychologist who is trained to listen to all sorts of issues and guide you into being able to resolve them. This process encourages you to explore your thoughts, feelings and helps you improve on decision making and personal effectiveness. Some of the issues people bring to counseling tend to be more related to every day happenings. Our sessions become “goal orientated” and “solution focused” in order to bring relief, less stress and also healthier ways making changes.

Psychotherapy:

In psychotherapy, my approach is psychodynamic, which means that therapy becomes a deeper journey of understanding the subconscious conflicts that contribute to your ongoing concerns and that have also shaped who you are, that is, your sense of self.

This process often looks at earlier experiences in life (including family, childhood and other relationship patterns) that may be impacting in some way your present problems. All of this allows you to better understand yourself and others so as you can better create tools to cope and resolve life’s problems easier.

In terms of length of treatment, psychotherapy can vary between several weekly sessions to a more ongoing process in which many people find very fulfilling and substantially life-changing.

Couples Counseling:

Couples therapy is a process by which both partners sit down with a psychologist to talk about problems, thoughts and feelings that are causing concern, frustration and tension in the relationship.

Often couples find themselves at a point where they are unable to resolve their problems and need a trained professional to help them through.

The aim is to listen to each partner and help them understand their own history and its importance in the dynamics of their relationship.

As the couple progress, they will be able to decide whether to accept the idea of change and with the help of the therapist, they will learn how to do so. The therapeutic framework I use is called systemic theory which was designed to be used for couples therapy.

Family Therapy:

Family therapy involves the participation of the whole family or a few members of the same in conjunction with the psychologist. Often families, being a larger group of people, with so many different styles in personalities, become strained and frustrated to the point of finding communication difficult and non-productive.

In some cases, one family member can be identified as the “problem” but are unaware that the whole family is in some way contributing to the matter. The aim becomes that of working with the therapist to identifying family dynamics and patterns that having been causing frustration and disturbance. Ultimately, through this understanding, the family may consider the notion of change and start to modify ways of relating, thinking and feeling with each other so as to solve the problem.

Common concerns in couples and families are:

• Communication • Trust • Infidelity • Children/ Step children • New marriage • Ending relationships • Sibling difficulties

• Parent – son/daughter conflict • Post separation issues • Adoption • Finances • Illness • Divorce • Abuse

Counseling for Individuals, Couples and Families Help with anxiety, relationships, self esteem, depression Psychologist – Kew, Prahran and inner city suburbs