About Therapy staff are trained to assess and treat a range of problem areas including:
- Anxiety, chronic worry, OCD, panic, phobias and severe fears that interfere with daily living
- Depression, persistent feelings of sadness, emptiness and lack of energy or purpose
- Relationship and partner issues, trouble making or keeping satisfying relationships
- Communication problems, troubles communicating with others and/or making friends
- Intimacy and sexual difficulties, including low desire, and problems with intimacy, connection, avoidance or infidelity
- Parenting, parent-child communication problems and/or setting effective limits
- Child behavioural and emotional problems, at home and/or school
- Troubled adolescents, including withdrawal from family and friends, poor performance and self-destructive behaviours
- Self harm, suicide and other self-destructive behaviours
- Disorders of eating, including Body Dysmorphic Disorder
- Grief and loss, including bereavement and coping with life threatening illnesses
- Anger, dealing with rage and/or problems with physical abuse
- Addiction to alcohol, drugs, gambling, sex, pornography, prostitution and/or other compulsions
- Trauma, problems that follow witnessing or experiencing traumatic events
- Blended family, separation, post-separation and issues arising from family breakdown or formation.
- Abuse, including emotional, physical and sexual abuse in childhood or as an adult
- Identity issues, issues arising due to sexuality, developmental life cycle or change and loss.
- Stress management and performance issues, at work, home and/or school
- Personal development and lifestyle management, including problems with confidence and self esteem, job and career issues and/or dissatisfaction with life in general
- Life-cycle challenges and transitions, including difficulties adjusting to marriage, divorce, pregnancy and childbirth, ageing parents, retirement, death and other major life events
- Mental health issues
- Educational, cognitive, intellectual or developmental concerns in children and adolescents.
We also provide academic and developmental assessments, clinical supervision, group work, training and other consultative services. We may provide court reports at the clinicians discretion, if deemed appropriate.