Connections Healthcare Centre


Connections Healthcare Centre

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Alicia S

Psychologist

Alicia is a registered Psychologist with a warm, gentle and friendly nature. She is passionate about helping others work through the issues of day to day life, as well as challenging mental health problems. Alicia has worked with adolescents, adults and couples experience a wide-range of issues, including: anxiety, depression, relationship problems, self-esteem issues, trauma, faith and spiritual issues, and personality disorders. Alicia takes a non-judgmental approach to therapy and believes it can help enhance anyone’s life, no matter where they are at.
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Alison Watt

Counsellor

Alison provides a safe space for you to unpack the concerns you are experiencing and gain the life skills you need for the life you want to lead. With vast experience in working with adults, youth, children and families, Alison brings a respectful and compassionate perspective and enjoys helping her clients find healthy perceptions of themselves. Alison has extensive work and volunteer work experience with multicultural urban and rural communities, both locally and interstate. Paired with her Psychology Honours and qualifications in Psychology and Social Services, she is well-equipped in providing evidence-based practice. Married for 36 years, mother and grandmother, Alison is a versatile practitioner and a skilled listener and communicator. Alison is deeply respectful of the background and needs of her clients and protective of the environment they need to receive healing. (Associate member of the APS)
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Jarrick Butshiire

Counsellor

Jarrick is dedicated to helping individuals navigate life's challenges and finding ways to thrive. With over a decade dedicated to working in education, He has cultivated a deep understanding of the unique challenges young people face. He has experience that honed his ability to foster care built on trust and listening. Jarrick also has a passion for theology and extensive experience in pastoral care, working with people of all ages and backgrounds to navigate their spiritual lives. He is passionate about helping individuals build resilience and hope. Jarrick provides support for those struggling with anxiety, stress, grief, trauma and spirituality. He’s here to listen, understand, and support individuals to overcome obstacles and resiliently engage in more fulfilling lives.
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Mr Paul Browne

Psychologist

Paul has 24 years of experience as a Psychologist. He has an authentic, gentle, patient, empathic, warm and calming nature that fosters a deepening sense of support, safety and engagement. He endeavor's to meet people where they are at while at the same time helping them explore and reconnect with the ‘heart’ of the deeper unresolved and often hidden core issues that impact and undermine all aspects of their wellbeing. He uses simple, down to earth language and examples that are very relatable in order to reduce the ‘mystery’ and complexity of unfamiliar conditions and concepts to enhance peoples understanding and build their willingness to open up further to confront and deal with the ‘root’ and underlying inward causes of their presenting issues rather than remaining solely focused on the outward symptoms. He has a unique ability to come alongside people in a respectful, nurturing and patient way in order to ‘walk with them’ at their pace in such a way that results in a greater depth and breadth of experiential exploration and understanding that contributes to positive change and healing that is more extensive, deeper and permanent. Paul has extensive experience in working with offenders and victims of Child Sexual Abuse, individually and in group settings. He has worked within a number of prisons, male and female, co-facilitating various short and long term group treatment programs. Years of invaluable personal and shared experiences have engrained within him a humility and appreciation for the diversity of experiences that influence and often unfortunately result in unique outcomes and difficulties with problematic issues such as anger, addictions (of all types), self harm, hopelessness, isolation, suicide, depression, anxiety, fear, trauma, self worth and love, faith and fatigue to name but a few. He comes with a quiet confidence knowing that if he could be helped and healed from his brokenness to become a better and more balanced person, then anyone can be helped. Paul is a Registered Psychologist and member of Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA). He has a Bachelor of Psychology from ECU and a Bachelor of Business, Agriculture from Curtin. He has spent three years at Bible College. He was brought up on a broad acre farm where he worked for many years developing his practical hands on approach to growing and fixing plants, livestock and machinery which he now continues in helping to grow and heal people.
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Mrs Janine Luzi

Counsellor

Janine is warm, genuine and open, with a passionate and committed approach to facilitating hope and restoration in individual lives. She has an integrative approach, according to individual needs, while working collaboratively, navigating through life’s difficulties across diverse cultural backgrounds. She works in a range of areas including trauma, abuse, addiction, grief and loss, anxiety, depression, identity and relationships.

Mrs Katherine Callaway

Counsellor (Registrar)

Katherine is a psychologically informed counsellor who brings a warm integrative approach, drawing on modalities such as Person-Centred Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Positive Psychology, and Attachment Theory, tailored to meet the unique needs of each client. Katherine is diligent about creating a safe, respectful space where clients feel heard and supported. Katherine has experience in working with grief, trauma, anxiety and depression while always anchoring to a framework of hope and resilience. She has a particular passion for supporting individuals and couples navigating pregnancy-related loss and infertility. Katherine welcomes people of all backgrounds and beliefs, offering Christian counselling if desired. Outside of counselling, Katherine has a diverse professional background in ministry and early childhood care, working alongside families across schools, hospitals, childcare centres, and faith-based settings in both Australia and the United States. This experience informs her compassionate support for clients navigating life transitions, parenting challenges, grief, and the search for meaning. Katherine holds a Bachelor’s degree in Counselling and Psychology, an Advanced Graduate Diploma in Psychology, and is a registered member of both the Australian Counselling Association (ACA) and the Australian Psychological Society (APS).
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Mrs Kirsty Frame

Occupational Therapist

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Mrs Lyn Varty

Counsellor

Lyn is a well sought-after Christian Counsellor; she is the owner and CEO Connections Healthcare Centre and Counselling and Psychology services across Perth. Lyn has over 33 years’ experience helping people through difficult and complex life circumstances. Lyn’s personal, professional experience and expertise brings a depth and richness to the therapeutic relationship/setting enhancing the outcomes achieved in individual, couples, and group therapy. Lyn provides supervision and her love for teaching/training is evident whilst having the ability to carefully and compassionately engage and interact with the attendees. She also manages and coordinates Hope Alive Australia and New Zealand and is the vice president of International Hope Alive Counsellors Association. She has studied extensively and is best known for her work in neglect, abuse and all forms of pregnancy loss including abortion. Lyn also founded Pause Retreats—a nurturing space where women are welcome just as they are, to unplug, to just be, to recharge, and to reconnect to self and God. She finds it extremely beneficial and vital to take time out, to pause, to nourish her physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing. Lyn is continuing her journey while learning and growing in how to practice the presence of God, being still and hearing God’s gentle still voice. Lyn has been married for 45 years with two children and four grandchildren. She loves walking, jigsaw puzzles, hanging out with friends, family and playing with her grandchildren. She has Diploma in Counselling, and provides individual and group supervision. Lyn is also a trainer and lecturer for organisational workshops and spiritual retreats. ​ Her clients and colleagues describe Lyn as very compassionate, genuine, insightful and is committed to helping people through life’s difficulties.

Mrs Ruth Crawford

Counsellor

Ruth is a counsellor with over 12 years of experience working with young people, couples and families. She has worked in school and hospital settings, not-for-profit organizations and disability and mining sectors providing counselling and mental health support. Ruth has a genuine and relational approach as a person-centered counsellor. She is passionate about mental health and wellbeing and works from an integrative and eclectic approach, including Internal Family Systems, Narrative, Somatic and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to best meet the clients need. Her compassionate and sensitive manner creates an environment in which people from all backgrounds feel safe, helping to enable them to process and find meaning in painful experiences, discovering new possibilities and resources, and developing a greater understanding and awareness in one’s sense of self. She works from a trauma informed approach, providing counselling for young people, couples, and individuals in various areas, including grief and loss, trauma, relationship, identity, stress management, depression and anxiety. Ruth holds qualifications in family therapy, psychotherapy and a Master of Counselling. She is a registered counsellor with Australian Counselling Association (ACA) and Psychotherapy and Counselling Association of Australian (PACFA).
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Peter Watt

Psychologist

Peter is a psychologist and psychotherapist with three decades of counselling experience working with a wide variety of mental health and chronic pain conditions. He has consulted at government, community, and private settings, in both urban and rural regions. An interest in psychosomatic medicine led to Peter's involvement in a rural multidisciplinary IBD clinic where he treated patients as the team psychologist, and began researching and publishing in health psychology and program development. Peter is an approachable clinician who's knowledge of psychotherapy and clinical experience equips him to work with a broad range of individuals and presentations in a collaborative effort towards lasting change.
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