Services

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.

My particular interest is neuro affirming support for:

    • Highly empathic adults, including people who identify with:
        • High sensitivity (highly sensitive person, HSP).
        • High masking or internalised Autistic and ADHD traits.

I also focus on supporting professional adults, including:

    • Professionals & corporate leaders:
        • Engineers, software developers, & IT professionals.
        • Lawyers & accountants.
        • Human Resource practitioners.
        • Current & future executives & managers.
    • Medical & health professionals.
        • Doctors & medical students.
        • Allied health professionals.
    • Business owners & community leaders.
    • Academics & university students.
    • Sports people & performing artists.

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 interests include the following overlapping support areas.

    • Neuro affirming support.
    • Vocation and Interests support.
    • Growth and Wellbeing support.
    • Mental Health support.

Neuroaffirming support

 Including support for:

    • Self-esteem & identity.
    • Executive functioning differences (e.g., organisation, motivation, self-regulation).
    • Rejection sensitive dysphoria (RSD).
    • Navigating communication style differences.
    • Stress & emotional dysregulation.
    • Sensory & somatic needs.
    • Autistic burnout & ADHD burnout. 

Facilitating an affirming process with:

    • Self-identification:
        • exploring and understanding your brain style (neurotype) through an affirming lens.
    • Self-determination:
        • connecting with your values, interests, strengths, and goals.
    • Felt safety:
        • connecting with people who like you for you, neuro affirming tribe.
    • Self-compassion & self-acceptance.
    • Values guided self-advocacy:
        • balancing self-determination and felt safety in advocating for what you want and need (e.g., masking, managing, and authenticity).
    • Affirming neurodivergent culture & communication styles:
        • navigating the differences between neuro typical and neuro divergent communication and culture, informed by the double empathy problem.

As well as support for the areas below.

Vocation and Interests support

    • 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

    • Stress and burnout.
    • Emotion regulation.
    • Life transitions.
    • Self-esteem and identity.
    • Mindfulness and self-compassion.
    • Fulfilment and self-actualisation.

Mental Health support

    • Adjustment disorder.
    • Health anxiety, social anxiety, performance anxiety, general anxiety, & phobias.
    • Insomnia.
    • Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
    • Loss, prolonged grief, and bereavement disorder.
    • Depression.
    • Eating disorders, including:
      • binge eating disorder
      • bulimia nervosa
      • purging disorder
      • night eating syndrome
      • Please note: I am not accepting new clients with restrictive eating disorders (e.g., anorexia nervosa and ARFID).

 

Approaches

Therapeutic approaches I use include:

    • 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:

    • 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:

    • 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:

    • 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:

    • 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.

 

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