Clinical Psychologist Services & Psychological Therapies
We provide individual therapy sessions. These sessions are usually 1 hour in length. Initially a thorough assessment is conducted to allow the development of the best treatment plan. Treatment options will be discussed during the initial appointment.
Most common mental health problems are eligible under the Better Access to Mental Health Care initiative introduced in November 2006.
All Your Psychology Clinic Psychology practitioners are registered with Medicare. This practice is committed to providing affordable quality comprehensive mental health services to Brisbane. Medicare rebates can vary depending upon client circumstances, length of session and the type of service provided by the Psychologist.
Psychological Problems and Difficulties Treated at Your Psychology Clinic
At present, this practice can accept referrals through the Medicare Better Access to Mental Health Care Scheme for patients with the following disorders who would benefit from a structured approach to the management of their mental health needs:
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Trauma
- Marital and relationship difficulties
- Sexual and gender issues
- Pain Management
- Eating disorders and body image problems
- Anger
- Self development
- Grief and loss
- Phobic Disorders
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Generalised Anxiety Disorder
- Social Phobia
- Panic disorder
- Adjustment disorder
- Unexplained somatic complaints
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Mixed anxiety and depression
- Sleep problems
- Chronic/acute psychotic disorders
- Stress
- Mental disorder, not otherwise specified
In addition to treating patients with a wide variety of problems such as depression, anxiety disorders and interpersonal difficulties, some members of our team also specializes in treating those patients who have persistent psychological problems such as:
- complex PTSD
- personality disorder (eg: BPD, APD)
- history of trauma
- history of sexual abuse
- emotion regulation problems
- anger
- management of bipolar disorder
- substance use disorders
- mixed anxiety and depression
- dissociative disorders
- self-harm
- those with an offending history/criminogenic needs
A Commitment to Evidence-based Therapy
We provide evidence-based treatment strategies that are effective. Individual psychologists will differ in the style of their therapy, and will typically adapt their approach to what works best for an individual. Regardless of the approach used Your Psychology Clinic is committed to evidence-based practice and utilizes scientifically supported treatment modalities (such as CBT, Schema Therapy, ACT, Dialectical Behavioural Therapy). We work with clients to bring them to a state of readiness for change whilst improving their self-relatedness. Patients are offered a compassionate and confidential service.
What does evidence-based treatment actually mean?
The term evidence-based treatment (EBT) or empirically-supported treatment (EST) refers to preferential use of mental and behavioral health interventions for which systematic empirical research has provided evidence of statistically significant effectiveness as treatments for specific problems. I
Many areas of professional practice, such as medicine, psychology, psychiatry and so forth, have had periods in their pasts where practice was based on loose bodies of knowledge. Some of the knowledge was simply lore that drew upon the experiences of generations of practitioners, and much of it had no truly scientific evidence on which to justify various practices.
In the past this has often left the door open to quackery perpetrated by individuals who had no training at all in the domain, but who wished to convey the impression that they did for profit or other motives. As the scientific method became increasingly recognized as the means to provide sound validation for such methods, it became clear that there needed to be a way of excluding quack practitioners not only as a way of preserving the integrity of the field (particularly medicine), but also of protecting the public from the dangers of their "cures." Furthermore, even where overt quackery was not present, it was recognized that there was a value in identifying what actually does work so it could be improved and promoted.
Evidence based treatment is an approach which tries to specify the way in which professionals or other decision-makers should make decisions by identifying such evidence that there may be for a practice, and rating it according to how scientifically sound it may be. Its goal is to eliminate unsound or excessively risky practices in favor of those that have better outcomes.