Susie Paliskis Psychologist

Therapy with Susie I believe in providing a safe, calm, compassionate and insightful therapeutic experience with clients to assist them to repair, rebuild and restore their sense of self, stories and relationships. This is along with authenticity, empathy, curiosity and a solid strategy to help support their road to wellness. Applying counselling micro-skills and a trauma informed lens, I adopt evidence-based therapies such as CBT, DBT, ACT, solution-focussed, interpersonal and family systems therapy. Therapy starts with a thorough mental health assessment, collaborative case formulation and treatment planning. This is shaped around a client’s needs and goals relating to how they think, feel and act in their body and environments. Where appropriate, ongoing consultation occurs with parents as well as medical, allied health, child protection, youth, family and community, educational and cultural advocates. My goal is to work in partnership with clients for lasting health outcomes using current, practical interventions. Susie's Qualifications & Experience Susie has endeavoured to make people’s lives better since 2001, when she started working as a counsellor in a residential care home for young women experiencing along with others: eating disorders, drug and alcohol challenges, and concerns around family relationships. Since then, she has sat with young people on the Central Coast in private practice as an adolescent and family counsellor; and in educational and health settings as a provisional psychologist. Susie has also worked as a trainer of adults in the certificate and advanced diploma of counselling qualifications over a ten-year period. Susie has been trained in CBT, DBT, ACT, solution-focussed, interpersonal and family systems therapies. Susie has experience working with an assorted range of presentations, primarily arising from developmental trauma and close attachments. Susie has engaged with vulnerable young people and their parents’ experiencing disorders of mood, trauma and stress, neurodevelopment, disruptive, impulse control and conduct; obsessive-compulsive and related; learning and behavioural disorders.