Our areas of expertise.

Personalised care for people

We are all unique beings. And so are our Psychologists. Our therapists are real people who bring with them a wide range of personal and professional experience.

We provide individualised care for adults, adolescents, children and their families. We also provide relationship counselling.

Our Psychologists and Counsellors have expertise and training in evidence-based treatments such as:

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

• Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)

• Eye-Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR)

• Interpersonal Therapy

• Brief Solution Focused Therapy

• Narrative Therapy

• Trauma-Informed Therapy

• Schema Therapy

• Psychodynamic Therapy

• Mindfulness-based Therapy

• Family Therapy

• Art Therapy

• Play Therapy

Doing it for the Kids

At the heart of our practice, we support children by providing a stimulating, encouraging and nurturing environment that is both inclusive and recognises diversity. We provide children with a safe, homely environment that generates confidence and encourages them to feel empowered .

Many children find it easier to express their emotions and explore experiences through artistic forms and play, rather than through words. At Berry Collective Psychology our clinicians incorporate art and play into their work with children. When we use play during sessions, we are communicating with the child through their own language. 

Art therapy is used with children and adolescents. It has been shown to improve cognitive and sensory-motor functions, foster self-esteem, assist in emotional processing and emotional regulation, cultivate resilience, enhance social skills, and reduce distress. 

By engaging in art and play therapy, children can learn healthy coping mechanisms and develop greater self-awareness. We are fortunate to have a trained Art Therapist in our team, who has many years of experience as a mental health practitioner.

Check out our free mental health toolkit that may help you get started. Or to see one of our clinicians, please request an appointment or contact our friendly admin team on 9997 6246.

Assessments

We have several options available for Educational and Diagnostic Assessments and Autism Assessments, depending on your reason for referral. We also offer Career and Personal development Assessments and Coaching, and ADHD Assessments for Adults.

Our friendly team will guide you through the process step by step to ensure the correct assessment battery is utilized to meet your individual needs and answer your specific queries.

Eye-Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR)

EMDR therapy is an extensively-researched, effective psychotherapy method proven to help people recover from trauma and other distressing life experiences. When distress from a disturbing event remains, the upsetting images, thoughts, and emotions may create an overwhelming feeling of being back in that moment, or of being “frozen in time.” EMDR therapy helps the brain process these memories, and allows normal healing to resume. The experience is still remembered, but the fight, flight, or freeze response from the original event is resolved.

During treatment, after an initial period of planning with your therapist, you will be asked to hold different aspects of the distressing event or thought in mind and to use your eyes to track their hand as it moves back and forth. As this happens, for reasons believed by a Harvard researcher to be connected with the biological mechanisms involved in Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep, internal associations arise and you will begin to reprocess the memory and disturbing feelings. In successful EMDR therapy, the meaning of painful events is transformed on an emotional level.

As part of therapy, EMDR can help people of all ages address a wide range of challenges, including anxiety, chronic illness, mood disorders, dissociation, eating disorders, grief and loss, personality disorders, trauma, sleep disturbance, and substance abuse.

For further information or to book in with one of our EMDR clinicians, please request an appointment or contact our friendly admin team on 9997 6246.

Clinical Supervision

We provide clinical supervision for registered psychologists and counsellors with a focus on encouraging practitioner wellbeing as well as working towards the supervisee's professional learning goals. Specific areas of our expertise include:

• Supervision for a range of special educational needs and disabilities.

• Supervision around the administration, interpretation and reporting of psychometric assessments, including with neurodiverse populations and children with additional needs or developmental delay.

• Supervision for practitioners working with children & families generally, including parenting support.

For further information or to arrange a free 15-minute phone call with our Board-Approved Supervisor, Debra Lawler, please contact us on 9997 6246 or complete our enquiry form below.

Are you ready to make a change?

If you feel it’s time to start working through whatever is challenging you right now, you wish to refer a friend or family member, or you’re looking to discover your full potential, we want to help you through every step of the journey.

Contact us today for a confidential chat or send us an email.

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