Ms Sarah McMurtrie Psychologist

Sarah is passionate about approaching mental health from a holistic perspective. She has worked with individuals of all ages, couples and families in community, school, corporate EAP, and private practice settings for more than 10 years. Through this experience, Sarah has focused her practice on treatment with adolescents (16 years +) and adults, with a special interest in recovery from trauma both short and long term. Sarah believes that therapy provides an opportunity for profound positive change through understanding and examining our experiences more deeply. Through her training in Counselling Psychology, Sarah places a strong emphasis on the importance of the therapeutic relationship, built on safety and respect. Sarah is an accredited Emotion-Focused Therapist (EFT) through the Australian Institute of Emotion Focused Therapy and an accredited EMDR therapist. She believes that attending to and reprocessing emotionally painful past experiences has a liberating and transformative effect on previously debilitating and stuck behaviour patterns. Sarah enjoys assisting her clients on a pathway of true healing, supporting them as whole and capable individuals, not simply a cluster of symptoms. Sarah integrates a variety of other evidence based approaches to support clients including CBT, ACT, Flash Technique, and Internal Family Systems (IFS).