Dr Trevor Crowe Psychologist

Dr Trevor Crowe is a Registered Psychologist, Psychotherapist and Certified Addictions Counsellor with over 25 years clinical experience, and Associate Member of the Australian Psychological Society. Trevor’s clinical approach is integrative. He has considerable experience in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Supportive Expressive, Emotion Focussed, Interpersonal Psychotherapy, Strengths Coaching, and Gestalt Therapy and other Existential/Humanistic approaches. He continues to teach mindful meditation and Gestalt Psychotherapy. Although Trevor’s clinical interests and experiences are broad, he has a specific clinical interest in relational approaches to working with trauma recovery regardless of cause and manifestation (e.g., somatic, substance abuse, depression, anxiety, interpersonal distress, etc). His clinical focus is with adults and young people, offering individual and couples/relationship counselling. Where possible he also provides group therapy. He was awarded a PhD in 2005 (Thesis topic: Relationship factors and outcome in brief group psychotherapy for depression). He previously held a Senior Lecturer position with the School of Psychology at the University of Wollongong NSW, where he was Director of the Master of Professional Psychology course and Deputy Director of Clinical Training Programmes. He also previously co-coordinated several research projects covering a range of topics including family recovery, coaching in mental health and substance abuse recovery settings, trauma recovery, sports and mental health, and clinical supervision. He has developed several programmes to support recovery and psychological growth including families, people with mental illness and/or substance abuse disorders, and clinicians, and co-developed and delivered the APS Clinical Supervisor Accreditation Training Programme. He has over 70 research journal and book chapter publications including family mental health and substance abuse recovery processes, as well as countless conference presentations and workshops. Alongside training/supervising over 160 Psychologists to registration, Trevor has personally trained over 1250 mental health workers and alcohol and other drug counsellors in assessment and recovery based service provision from a range of government and non-government mental health organisations across Australia and Canada. Career mission - To create and hold spaces for people to integrate their experiences and support their learning and growth