Living Change Psychology and Natural Health Bellfield


Living Change Psychology and Natural Health Bellfield

Practitioners at this location

Amanda Beattie

Social Worker

Mandy Beattie is a warm and empathic therapist with experience of supporting clients across the life span, in public health, community health and in private practice. With a background in psychotherapy, Mandy works with clients to develop a therapeutic relationship and to build a secure base for working towards recovery. Work with each person is collaborative and tasks and goals are agreed, whilst recognising and respecting the singularity of each client and the uniqueness of their experiences and issues. Mandy has experience in helping clients with a wide range of symptoms and issues including depression, anxiety, trauma, stress, grief and loss. Mandy’s practice is integrative with knowledge and experience of a wide range of evidence-based tools, strategies and modalities including Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), Mentalization-based Therapy (MBT), Compassion Focussed Therapy (CFT), Psychoeducation, a range of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) strategies and Family Therapy. Mandy works with adults, adolescents (twelve and over) and families. As an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker, she is able to offer Medicare rebates with a Mental Health Care Plan from your GP.

Amy Shah

Psychologist

Amy is a registered psychologist who holds a Masters in Professional Psychology. She is also a registered counsellor with a Masters in Counselling. Amy uses an Integrative Approach in working with her clients with an aim to build a supportive, non-judgmental, empathetic and safe space for her clients to be comfortable to share and explore their concerns. Amy believes that each individual has the capacity to overcome their difficulties and therapeutic work is a process that can support people recognise and use their capabilities. With a collaborative approach she works with the client to empower them, create clarity, insight, and a lasting change. Amy values openness and encourages her clients to provide feedback regarding the sessions. Amy provides crisis support and therapy to people (CALD backgrounds) going through mental health issues, relationship breakdown, suicide/self-harm prevention, workplace harassment, domestic/family violence and also providing support when people are looking for direction in life, or going through a difficult phase in their lives. Amy uses a wide range of modalities in her therapy work: Existential therapy; Person Centered Therapy; Solution Focused Brief Therapy; Acceptance Commitment Therapy; Mindfulness; Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Medicare rebates are available with a Mental Health Care Plan from your GP.

Bernadette Crompton

Psychologist

Bernadette Crompton is a psychologist holding a Master of Professional Psychology. With a varied background, Bernadette has worked as a tertiary Educator, Counsellor, Professional Coach, and Business Manager. Her qualifications include a Master of Social Science (Human Services Counselling), a Master of Business Administration, and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in coaching and mentoring. Bernadette works with clients experiencing depression, generalised anxiety, social anxiety, and binge eating disorder. She helps clients find alternatives to emotional eating and unhealthy lifestyles. She has worked extensively with clients faced with grief, loss, and bereavement, and those wanting to navigate career change and transition through the life-span to find new meaning and purpose. Bernadette assists clients through stressful situations such as changes in employment, financial pressures, and relationship difficulties. With a warm and empathic style, Bernadette ensures she understands client’s needs and collaboratively tailors treatment and interventions to help them reach their goals. She utilises a range of approaches including Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT), Schema Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Mindfulness, and Positive Psychology. Bernadette aims to provide clients with a safe and supportive therapeutic space, and welcomes feedback about their experience of working with her. Bernadette specialises in working with clients 18 years and older
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Mr Michael Buruma

Psychologist

Michael is a registered psychologist completing his Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and is a member of the Australian Psychological Society. He is dedicated to providing compassionate, evidence-based care through a collaborative therapeutic approach that prioritises the client-therapist relationship as fundamental to healing. Michael is trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Solution Focused Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), and Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR). He has experience working across a variety of settings including schools and hospitals. Michael has demonstrated capacity for professional judgment across varied clinical presentations and tailors his therapeutic approach to meet each client’s unique needs. Michael provides support for anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief and loss, relationship difficulties, trauma, PTSD, and everyday stress management. He welcomes clients of all ages, including children, adolescents, and adults.

Ms Emma Clarris

Psychologist

Emma Clarris is a Counselling Psychologist and Clinical Psychology Registrar with extensive experience in individual and group counselling. She has tertiary qualifications in Law, Masters Degrees in Counselling Psychology, Criminology (Forensic Psychology), Taxation and was a practising lawyer for several years before becoming a psychologist. As such, she brings a diverse background to her work. She is also a trained Coach and has written several coaching programs in the areas of leadership and employment services. Emma’s counselling philosophy is based on offering the individual an alternative approach to common interventions, giving them the opportunity to acknowledge and confront their own self-imposed barriers to employment, design and master their individual solutions and implement a long-term plan that produces lasting change. Her approach is founded in humanistic and psychodynamic principles but utilises a solution focussed, positive psychology philosophy to bring about results. With significant experience in the public service, private industry and the larger non-government organisational sphere Emma has worked with clients from a diverse range of backgrounds and issues including depression, anxiety, relationship breakdown, addiction, complex trauma, grief & loss, workplace stress as well as career and life transition. Medicare rebates are available with a Mental Health Care Plan from your GP.

Teresa Maiolo

Social Worker

Teresa has been dedicated to offering high quality psychological support in the clinical mental health field for over 40 years, both within the public and private sectors. In her various roles as a Social Worker, a Psychotherapist and Family Therapist, Teresa has worked with children, adolescents and adults utilising a broad variety of therapeutic platforms to cater to the individual needs of her client. Through her extensive experience and knowledge, Teresa has accumulated a practical and theoretical depth of understanding about human behaviour and psychological development. Teresa is also a Certified Homeopathic Practitioner. In the last twelve years, she has been offering homeopathic consultations, to children, adolescents and adults presenting with a range of emotional and psychological complaints.