Ange Wallace Psychologist

Ange Wallace is a counselling psychologist who specialises in the treatment of mental health and addictions. Ange works with young people and adults, and where required with their support networks. She is highly experienced in using telehealth and telephone communication modalities. Ange is especially passionate about enabling clients to live their version of “a life worth living”. She seeks to empower client’s to make wise choices and implement strategies that work for them. Ange has a strengths-based recovery approach during her one on one sessions to identify strategies to best manage triggers related to trauma, stress, grief and loss or relationship issues. She uses trauma informed care principles to assist clients in a person-centred manner, providing evidence based approaches that best suit the needs of the individual. Ange uses a number of evidence-based approaches including Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (T-CBT), Trauma Focused Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (TFACT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), problem solving approaches, Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), behaviour activation, mindfulness approaches and critical incident stress management. Ange also works in the fitness industry and has done so for over 25 years, and often integrates her expertise in this industry to inform behaviour activation into her sessions, as well as offering “Walking Therapy”. Her extensive crisis response experience over the past twenty years includes working in settings such as child protection, prisons, hospital, youth justice, victims’ services, hospital, mental health and community settings. She is currently the Vice President of CIMA - Crisis Intervention & Management Australasia. Ange has extensive experience with developing and delivering a range of training packages from her experience in forensic settings, dual diagnosis, mental health, alcohol and other drugs and critical incident stress management. She is adept in being able to provide engaging and interactive training and professional development in face to face and online mediums.