Ms Debra Sandford Psychologist
Quality of Life Psychology Suite 19, 4th Floor, Ashford Specialist Centre, 57 -59 Anzac Highway, Ashford, South Australia, 5035
Info
08 7225 0444(Work)08 7225 1599(Fax)
www.qolp.com.au Quality of Life Psychology Suite 19, 4th Floor, Ashford Specialist Centre, 57 -59 Anzac Highway, Ashford, South Australia, 5035
Overview
Debra is a Clinical Psychologist with extensive experience working with children, adolescents and adults. She has a specific interest in trauma, sleep, chronic health conditions, depression and anxiety, parenting, attachment, adjusting to major life changes and many other psychological issues.
Debra is passionate about good mental health outcomes and spends a great deal of time staying on top of the latest research and therapy options, in order to give her clients the best possible therapy and treatment outcomes.
Debra has also undertaken training with the Australian College of Environmental and Nutritional Medicine (ACNEM) to further her knowledge of supplements and mental health disorders.
Qualifications and Experience
Education
- B Psych (Hons)
- M Psych (Clinical)
Accreditations
- Circle of Security Facilitator
Specialisation and Services
Area of Focus
- Abuse
- Adolescents
- Affective disorders
- Anxiety
- Anxiety and phobias
- Assertiveness Training
- Attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Behaviour Problems
- Bipolar disorder
- Bullying
- Burnout
- Cancer management
- Cancer support
- Career and Vocational Planning
- Child Psychology
- Couples Therapy
- Crisis management
- Critical Incident Stress Debriefing
- Custody issues
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emotional abuse
- Executive Coaching
- General Psychology
- LGBTI issues
- Grief and Loss
- Health psychology
- Hypnosis
- Intellectual Assessments
- Life Coaching
- Medico-Legal services
- Men's Issues
- Mental health
- Mental Illness
- Neglect
- Obesity
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Panic Attacks
- Panic Disorders
- Parenting
- Personality Assessments
- Personality disorders
- Post-Natal Depression
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Pregnancy
- Relationships
- Relaxation training
- School Issues
- School readiness
- Self-Esteem and Self-Development
- Self-Harm
- Sexual Abuse
- Sexual Difficulties
- Sexual identity disorders
- Sexuality
- Sleep Disorders
- Somatoform disorders
- Stress
- Suicide
- Supervision
- Teenagers
Modalities
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Clinical Hypnosis
- Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy
- Existential
- Interpersonal
- Mindfulness
- Positive Psychology
- Psychodynamic
- Psychoeducation
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Patient Focus
- Adults
- Children
- Teenagers
- Infants
- Families
- Women
- Men
- Couples
Languages Spoken
- English