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Private psychology · Canberra

A steady, evidence-based space to work through what’s weighing on you.

One-on-one sessions for adults, adolescents and children navigating anxiety, stress, low mood, trauma and the harder transitions life brings. Plain-language, practical, and paced to you.

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Registered Psychologist, AHPRA Assessments for children and adults Fridays in Deakin · Saturdays in Lyneham

Approach

How the work is structured

Every person’s reasons for coming to therapy are different, so sessions are shaped around what you need rather than a fixed program. A few frameworks underpin most of the work.

Framework

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Focuses on building a workable relationship with difficult thoughts and feelings, rather than trying to eliminate them, so you can act on what matters to you even when things feel hard.

Framework

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour, and builds practical strategies for the patterns that keep anxiety, low mood or stress going.

Framework

Trauma-Focused CBT

A structured, evidence-based approach for processing traumatic experiences and the anxiety, avoidance or low mood that can follow them.

Approach

Tailored, not templated

Sessions draw on whichever tools fit the situation in front of us. You’ll always know why we’re trying something and how it connects to what you came in for.

How I can help

Areas I commonly work with

Anxiety & worry

Generalised worry, panic, health anxiety and social anxiety.

Stress & burnout

Work pressure, overload and difficulty switching off.

Low mood

Persistent low mood, loss of motivation and flat periods.

Life transitions

Career change, relationship shifts, loss and other turning points.

Self-esteem & identity

Self-criticism, confidence and working out what you want.

Relationship difficulties

Communication, conflict and navigating change with others.

Trauma

Processing traumatic experiences using evidence-based, trauma-focused approaches.

Adolescent therapy

Anxiety, low mood, self-esteem and the pressures of the teenage years.

Psychological assessment

Developmental, cognitive and autism assessments for both children and adults.