Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
— Carl Jung
Experience
I have worked in psychology for over 15 years and have gathered a significant amount of clinical experience, with nearly 9000 therapy sessions so far in a range of public, private and not-for-profit settings. And I am continually learning and integrating new ideas into my therapy practice.
Therapeutic ideas are drawn primarily from:
- EMDR
- Mindfulness
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
- Existential Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Emotionally Focused Therapy
- Attachment Theory
- Zen
- Nondualism
Common therapy areas include:
- neuro diversity (autism, ADHD, etc.)
- gender diversity
- sexual diversity
- relationship diversity
- anxiousness and panic
- depressed mood
- emotional dysregulation
- childhood trauma
- complex trauma
- PTSD
- dependencies of all kinds (alcohol & other drugs, sex, porn, food, work, exercise, etc.)
- obsessive-compulsive experiences (OCD, etc.)
- food, eating and body image
- grief and loss
- spirituality
- existential issues
- racism and other forms of discrimination
Fees
- my regular session fee is $250 — the out-of-pocket/gap payment is $100.95 after Medicare rebate (this is well below the APS suggested fee of $318)
- I have adopted a flexible sliding scale fee structure as social justice has always been very important to me — I am always willing to negotiate and re-negotiate reduced fees as needed
- a Medicare rebate of $149.05 is available when referred by a GP or psychiatrist with a Mental Health Care Plan or Eating Disorder Plan (this rebate increases if you reach your Medicare Safety Net)
- NDIS — I am not a registered NDIS provider, however I can provide services under the NDIS if your plan management arrangement allows direct invoicing
- Private health fund rebates may be available (depending on your level of cover)
- rebates can be processed on-the-spot when we meet in-person