Cathy is an experienced Clinical Psychologist who has many years of working with children, adolescents, adults and older persons. She has extensive Mental Health knowledge, having worked in both the government sectors and private practice.  She has also been a Clinical Psychology Educator and is a registered Supervisor for Areas of Practice Endorsement.

Cathy has had diverse cultural experiences having been trained in South Africa, working and living in Canada; and in Australia for the past ten years. She is an endorsed Clinical Psychologist with AHPRA, the APS Clinical College and ACPA.

She works effectively within an Interpersonal model of Psychotherapy with each individual, couple or family, to change their ways of interacting with others, to enable positive outcomes and diminished mental health issues.  Coping skills and new strategies are integrated into the therapeutic process to achieve a functional, holistic way of engaging in everyday living and taking on challenging new goals.

As well as working with Mental Health difficulties, she has a keen interest in Psychometric Assessment, Personality Disorders and Ethical Issues related to Professional Practice Standards.

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Adam Bear is a warm, insightful and thorough psychologist and has spent over 20 years working
with people throughout the lifespan in a variety of settings.
Adam’s relaxed, non-judgmental and approachable style enables him to form trusting and strong
therapeutic connections with young and older people alike. He is fluent in Minecraft and popular
culture and is himself the father of three children.

Adam works primarily with children, adolescents, parents/Carers and young adults and is known
for working effectively with clients with ASD/Asperger’s. He has extensive experience working
with complex presentations and is Co-founder and Director of The Extreme Behaviour Mechanics
(www.extremebehaviourmechanics.com.au).

Adam is skilled in working with issues including:
Developmental disorders and Disabilities – ASD, Asperger’s, intellectual impairment,
genetic disorders, young adults with ASD post-school
Mood problems – Anxiety, Depression, emotional regulation, anger management,
worries, OCD, Adjustment Disorder, suicidal thoughts/self harm, motivation problems
Behaviour problems – ADD/ADHD, non-compliance, Oppositional Defiant Disorder,
Conduct Disorder, truancy, offending behaviour, self harm, bullying, substance use and
abuse, managing devices and screen-time, risk taking behaviour
Parenting and family issues – parent training, designing individualized parenting
programs, co-parenting, parenting in blended families or in family breakdown, foster
care parenting, parenting children with disabilities/ASD, parenting adopted/overseas
adopted children
Identity and Attachment issues – Reactive Attachment Disorder, identity, gender
identity, self-esteem, confidence, adoption/overseas adoption
Social and relationship problems – peer issues, relationship issues, bullying, managing
social media, social skills deficits, conflict resolution
Trauma and loss – victims of abuse, trauma/PTSD, grief and loss, bereavement
Forensic issues – Court assessments and reports, risk assessments, offending behaviour,
managing post-incarceration, Youth Justice Conferencing

Adam uses a common sense and ‘real’ approach to problems. He is particularly skilled at
working with young people who don’t think they need help, who have had negative experiences
in therapy before or who are not particularly enthusiastic/compliant clients.
Adam mainly uses Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) with a strong focus on Behaviour
Modification informed by Functional Behaviour Analysis (FBA). In order to find approaches that
best fit the client, he incorporates elements of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT),
Mindfulness-based techniques, Solution Focused Therapy (SFT) and Narrative approaches.
Adam always works from a client centered approach and sees his role as helping the client to
work out how best to change things for themselves or for their children to get better outcomes
and to become the best version of themselves possible.

“I believe people do their best with what they have at that point in time. So when things go
wrong for a person, it is usually because something is missing. Whether it is knowledge, or the
way we interpret or understand something, or patience, energy or some skill, there is usually
something practical that is missing or would benefit from adjusting.”

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Psychologist

Hilary Lindberg is a warm, caring and thoughtful psychologist who has experience working with children, adolescents, adults, couples and families.

She can provide individually tailored, evidence-based treatments for clients.

Hilary takes a curious, compassionate and non-judgmental approach to therapy where she likes to empower individuals’ strengths to help them achieve symptom relief, in addition to developing a greater understanding about their difficulties. Depending on clients’ needs, Hilary is able to provide brief and/or longer-term psychological therapy and interventions for individuals, couples and families experiencing the following difficulties:

• depression and other mood related issues
• anxiety (including generalised anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, phobias)
• sexuality and gender issues
• sexual dysfunctions
• personality disorders
• self-esteem and/or issues relating to sense of self and self-development
• family issues
• child presentations (including anxiety, defiant behaviour and parenting support)
• couples counselling
• anger
• grief and loss
• trauma
• eating disorders
• life transitions and adjustment issues

Commitment to Continued Professional Development
Hilary maintains a strong focus on continuing her professional development.

She is currently finishing her Doctorate of Clinical Psychology through Queensland University of Technology.  For her thesis, Hilary designed a therapy program to treat vaginismus which she is currently trialing.

Hilary is also about to engage in more studies in sexology to develop further competencies in working with gender, sexuality and sexual problems, as this is a special interest area of hers.

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