Services

  • Individual Therapy

    The duration is normally 50 minutes for each session.

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  • Couples Therapy

    There are 3 stages to couple’s therapy. The first stage is a thorough assessment, which takes 4 hours and includes; a 60-minute conjoint session, a 60-minute consultation with each partner, and a 60-minute conjoint feedback and goal setting session.

    The second stage is the treatment phase which can take up to 10-12 hours of therapy. The third stage is a relapse prevention or follow up phase of 3-4 hours across 6-10 months.

    You will also be asked to complete an extensive online questionnaire to help your therapist gain a deep understanding of your issues.

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  • Family Therapy

    Family therapy includes an initial thorough assessment session of 90 minutes, followed by ongoing family therapy sessions of 90 minutes.

    When booking appointments, you may consider booking in advance to ensure sessions are available at suitable times for you.

    You can schedule, change or cancel appointments via phone, sms or email with 24 hours’ notice.

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Psychological conditions and life challenges Pam can help you with include:

 

  • Adjustment issues

  • Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

  • Anxiety

  • Depression

  • Grief and Loss

  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

  • Parenting

  • Perinatal issues

  • Fertility

  • Relationships

  • Domestic and sexual violence

Treatment modalities

The main treatment modalities are discussed below. These are evidence based psychological treatments, which means research has shown them to be effective in helping people with a range of difficulties:

 

Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)

ACT focuses on helping individuals to behave more consistently with their own values and apply mindfulness and acceptance skills to their responses to uncontrollable experiences. The aim of ACT is to maximise human potential for a rich, full and meaningful life; to cultivate health, vitality and well-being through mindful values-based living.

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)

DBT is a type of cognitive behavioural therapy that combines strategies like mindfulness, acceptance and emotional regulation. It teaches individuals skills to cope with, and change, unhealthy behaviours.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

CBT is a focussed approach based on the premise that cognitions influence feelings and behaviours, and that subsequent behaviours and emotions can influence cognitions. The underlying assumption is people are disturbed not by events in their lives, but by their beliefs and thoughts about those events. It is a logical and practical approach to help people with their emotional problems by changing their thinking and their behaviours.

Systemic Family Therapy

Systemic Family Therapy views the presenting problem/s as patterns or systems that need changing and adjusting, rather than viewing problems as residing in a particular person. The interventions that are used specifically focus on altering interactions between and among family members in order to improve the functioning of the family as a unit.

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There are 3 stages of treatment:

  1.  A thorough assessment – broadly speaking it takes about 4 hours – one hour for a conjoint session, a one-hour individual consultation each, and a one-hour feedback and goal setting session.  

  2. The treatment phase, which generally takes around 12-14 hours of therapy.

  3. A relapse prevention or follow-up phase, which can take anything from 3 to 7 hours across 6-10 months.

The second phase of treatment can be delivered over a time that suits you.  However, I know from research and from experience, that couples make better progress when treatment is intensive.  Therefore, I usually recommend you schedule 4 x 90-minute sessions after the assessment phase, to develop better skills in conflict management.  We might then move to 1-hour appointments a week or a fortnight until you feel you are able to consistently manage your relationship successfully.

Depending on the third stage of relapse prevention, I may suggest monthly follow-up appointments for a few months to ensure you stay on track and then perhaps to move to quarterly follow-ups and maybe bi-annual check-ins to ensure relapse prevention has been achieved.