Registered Psychologist in Orange, NSW

Anxiety: Treatment and therapy for a range of anxiety related concerns including social anxiety, fear of public speaking, excessive worry, performance anxiety, panic attacks, obsessions and compulsions, phobias, health anxiety, work anxiety, and generalised anxiety.

Relationships: Difficulties in relationships with partners or spouses, children, family, colleagues, or friends. Issues such as communication, conflict resolution, beginning relationships, dating, relationship breakdown, or difficulty forming or maintaining healthy relationships. Appointments can be undertaken on an individual, couple or family basis. Couple counselling is available for heterosexual and same sex couples, married or defacto, and new or established relationships.

Depression and mood difficulites: Therapy for a wide spectrum of mood difficulties, from serious and debilitating depression to issues such as struggling with mood swings, feeling down or sad, lacking energy and enthusiasm, feeling unmotivated, or having difficulty enjoying experiences as much as you would like.

Stress management: Managing the stress of work, career, family, life responsibilities, performance pressure, financial pressure, competing demands, social obligations, isolation, time pressure and any other sources of stress.

Trauma: Therapy for reactions to traumatic experiences such as car accidents, assault, abuse, sexual assault, physical injury, natural disaster, or other traumatic events, and for historical childhood trauma and abuse.

Workplace related issues: Counselling for workplace issues such as work stress, assertiveness at work, conflict resolution, communication and interpersonal skills, performance enhancement, time management, procrastination, managing workloads, retrenchment, unemployment, career instability, workplace bullying, career change, and burnout.

Grief and Bereavement: Dealing with the loss of loved ones, friends or family, through death or illness or other life circumstances.

Confidence and self esteem: Therapy and counselling to help you build personal, social, or professional confidence, including issues of self-worth, capability & competence, achievement, meaning, and belonging.

Gambling: Help for problem gambling. Changing gambling behaviour and treating compulsive gambling. Help for family and friends of problem gamblers.

Sexual difficulties: Treatment and counselling for sexual difficulties such as loss of libido or desire for sex, lack of sexual enjoyment, fear of sex, erectile diffiuclties, premature ejaculation, pain, performance anxiety, mismatched sex drives in a relationship, or differences in sexual preferences or expectations.

Eating disorders: Treatment for eating disorders including binge eating disorders, bingeing and purging, yo-yo dieting, feeling out of control of eating, emotional eating, excessive concern with weight, size and shape, and body image dissatisfaction.

Dealing with life events, stress, and change: such as changes in life circumstances, life direction, career direction, retrenchment, relocation, divorce and separation, childbirth, ageing, and loss.

Sleep difficulties: such as insomnia, difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep, early morning awakening, broken sleep, or unrefreshing sleep.

Expatriate and relolcation issues: including difficulties adjusting to life in a new country, or a new state or city, adapting to a new culture, homesickness, establishing new connections and friendships, and other challenges of relocation.

Drug and Alcohol Treatment and counseling for drug and alcohol abuse, addiction and related problems.

Evidence-based hypnosis: for issues such as changing habits, relaxation, sleep, pain, stress management, and general wellbeing. Visit links and information to learn more about evidence-based uses of hypnosis.

Child and family issues: Counselling and treatment for children and adolescents with a range of difficulties. Family counselling and therapy for family conflict, managing family dynamics, parenting skills, building children's self esteem, managing couple conflict regarding parenting, and responding sensitively and appropriately to children's emotional needs.

Enhancing wellbeing and performance: Enhancing wellbeing, effectiveness, and enjoyment in the areas of work, career, leisure, relationships, family, or work/life balance.