Services
Hello, I’m Carl (he/him), a Clinical Psychologist in private practice.
Below I describe my Clients, Support areas, Approaches, and Ethos.
Clients
I enjoy supporting highly empathic and professional adults, including:
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- Highly empathic adults:
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- High sensitivity (highly sensitive person, HSP).
- High masking or internalising Autistic and ADHD adults.
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- Professionals & corporate leaders:
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- Engineers, software developers, & IT professionals.
- Lawyers & accountants.
- Human Resource practitioners.
- Current & future executives & managers.
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- Medical & health professionals.
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- Doctors & medical students.
- Allied health professionals.
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- Business owners & community leaders.
- Academics & university students.
- Sports people & performing artists.
- Highly empathic adults:
Rather than working with young people (children and teenagers), I focus on supporting adults. My practice is often a better fit for people who are in their mid-20s and above.
Support Areas
My current interests include the following overlapping support areas.
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- Vocation and Interests support.
- Growth and Wellbeing support.
- Mental Health support.
Vocation and Interests support
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- Executive coaching, leadership coaching, and coaching psychology.
- Engagement and performance in career, university, sport, & performing arts.
- Psychologist peer consultation.
- Corporate consulting and training.
Growth and Wellbeing support
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- Stress and burnout.
- Emotion regulation.
- Life transitions.
- Self-esteem and identity.
- Mindfulness and self-compassion.
- Fulfilment and self-actualisation.
Mental Health support
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- Adjustment disorder.
- Health anxiety, social anxiety, performance anxiety, general anxiety, & phobias.
- Insomnia.
- Loss, prolonged grief, and bereavement disorder.
- Depression.
Approaches
Therapeutic approaches I use include:
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- Neurodiversity affirming therapy.
- Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT).
- EMDR therapy.
- Schema therapy.
- Mindfulness-based therapies.
- Compassion-focused therapies.
- Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) informed therapy.
- Positive psychology.
- Interpersonal process.
- Feedback informed treatment.
My accreditations include:
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- LOAPAC Foundational Member.
- EMDR Association of Australia Full Member.
- ANZEAD Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician (CEDC).
- AHPRA Board-approved supervisor.
Perspectives I am informed by include:
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- The neuro diversity affirming paradigm.
- Interpersonal neurobiology.
- Psychoneuroimmunology.
- Attachment theory and attachment-based therapies.
- Trauma theory and trauma-informed therapies.
- Evidence-based practice: integrating research evidence, clinical expertise, practice context, and client preferences (including their values, culture, and circumstances).
- Practice-based evidence: collaborative reflection, discussion, and refinement with each client.
Ethos
With a warm, empathic approach, I facilitate a safe space for people to explore their interests, passions, values, traits, neurotype, identity, relationships, and goals.
I enjoy supporting people to connect with what matters most to them in life (e.g., meaning, purpose, and enjoyment) as they move through their day.
I have an integrative evidence-based approach. I resonate with approaches that are:
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- person centred,
- collaborative,
- values guided,
- strengths based,
- neuro affirming,
- LGBTIQA+ inclusive,
- intersectional,
- trauma informed,
- attachment based, and
- holistic (considering body, mind, spirit, relationships, culture, organisations, and environment).
I appreciate neuroaffirming care as a way that:
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- understands humanity flourishes because of our natural diversity – we are all neurodiverse,
- supports each person to understand their own brain style (neurotype) and strengths, and
- recognises that neurodivergent people experience social disability due to the difference between their neurology and the demands of neurotypical conforming culture.
Further information
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- Keep scrolling down for Appointment Information (or link straight there).
Enquiries
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- Contact me at info@drcarldreher.com.au

