Psychological Counselling
Psychological counselling is the skilled and principled use of relationship to facilitate self-knowledge; emotional acceptance and growth; and the optimal development of personal resources.
Here at New Growth Psychology we use an integrated approach of informed and sensitive therapies to assist clients in improving their well-being, prevent and ease distress, resolve underlining challenges and to increase their ability to function better in their daily lives.
Online Counselling / E-Therapy Available To Our Clients
New Growth Psychology furthermore offers their clients the option of hosting their counselling sessions online. Through various online platforms we are happy to accommodate clients who would prefer this method of communication.
Also known as teletherapy, your session is conducted in real-time from the comfort of your home.
“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.” Carl Gustav Jung
Parent-Child Relationships
Building a healthy relationship between a parent and child is not always as easy as it seems.
This constantly evolving relationship can seem like a losing battle for both parent and child at times.
Here at New Growth Psychology we assist parents and children in successfully steering through the challenges and dynamics that present themselves with the goal of building a healthy relationship between parent and child.
Emotional & Behavioural Issues
The ability to manage and regulate emotions is something that a child learns as they grow.
Some of these emotions and behaviours can be extremely challenging to a child and the assistance of a psychologist can be hugely beneficial for the child and parent alike.
New Growth Psychology gives your child a safe environment to talk about their feelings and to learn how they can better understand themselves.
Depression & Mood Disorders
Counselling for children experiencing low mood can be overlooked.
Our practice offers a safe environment in which we assist them in understanding their own emotions and provide support on how to find relief from the effects of low mood or depression.
Attachment
We assist children and parents who are challenged with establishing this deep emotional connection and the ramifications there of.
Children who suffer with attachment bond issues developed during their infancy years may find themselves struggling with their ability to develop trust, express emotions and build meaningful relationships later on in life.
Body Image Concerns
There is a substantial surge in body dysmorphia in children and adolescents around the world.
Our therapeutic approach assists children and their parents to handle continuous pressures to meet societal standards of beauty and the underlying trauma that is central to such difficulties.
Self-Harm
Let us assist you in navigating the difficulties experienced during times when your loved ones turn to acts of self-harm.
Self-harm is understandably frightening to parents. We assist young children and adolescents to understand and manage the emotional pain that leads to the act of self-harm.
Working closely with the young client and the parent/s we help to uncover the triggers of these events and put practices in place to assist in curbing this unhealthy coping mechanism.
Self-Esteem & Confidence
Low self-esteem and low confidence can have devastating effects on children and their outlook on life.
Self-esteem and confidence helps children to feel good about themselves, cope with mistakes, try new things, to try things repeatedly even if they fail and in general to do better at school and life challenges.
Not joining in with classmates, not standing up for themselves, giving up easily and allowing others to treat them poorly are just a few aspects that children with these challenges face on a daily basis.
Peer Relationships & Social Skills
For some children peer relationships and mastering simple social skills can be really challenging.
These challenges can often lead to them being withdrawn and rejected by their peers.
Not having the abilities to form positive peer relationships during younger years, children that face these challenges are more likely to have problematic relationships later on in adulthood.
New Growth Psychology gives their young clients the tools and understanding to overcome such challenges.
Developmental Transitions
A child’s life is filled with significant milestones that they journey through to get to adulthood.
As they transition from one stage to the next, certain challenges present themselves to the child and parent.
There are many benefits to having an outside perspective from a psychologist to assist with these important transitional phases, who can assist you in navigating through them.
Anxiety Difficulties
Worry and fear can be overwhelming and crippling for someone living with anxiety difficulties.
Everyone experiences anxiety at one time or another, it is a normal human emotion. An anxiety difficulty however is something completely different. The amount of distress that anxiety causes can interfere drastically with a young person’s ability to lead a fufilling life.
Anxiety can be triggered by varying factors; trauma, genetics, the environment in which the person interacts or a combination of these.
New Growth Psychology works closely with our clients, helping them to navigate through the challenges that anxiety bestows into their lives
Psycho-Education
Correctly understanding your mental health difficulties will assist you in navigating them through life.
Through psycho-education, we are able to assist our clients in fully understanding their diagnosed mental health condition and how it will affect their lives.
Psycho-education addresses many unanswered questions that our clients may have, putting their minds at ease and allowing them the opportunity to learn about their condition.
Health & Wellness
We work closely with parents who seek out the advice and tools to assist them in navigating the challenges of parenting in today’s times.
It is through their good mental health that they are able to develop the resilience to cope with the challenges that life presents them with.
They in turn grow into well rounded, healthy adults. We work closely with parents who seek out the advice and tools to assist them in navigating the challenges of parenting in today’s times.
Our Integrated Approach to Counselling
Our integrated approach to counselling and support involves selecting from the various therapeutic techniques best suited to our client’s unique challenges.
We then tailor the counselling to their individual needs to produce the most significant effects.
Through the use of an integrated approach we strive to improve the efficacy and efficiency of support, adapting to our client’s specific needs as an individual.
Benefits of Integrated Therapy
Individualised
Each individuals unique challenges are addressed by a unique combination of therapies, making integrated therapy highly individualised.
Flexible
Throughout the course of the client relationship, integrated counselling can be adapted over time based on any changes, experiences or life events that may occur making it a flexible support option.
Adaptable
Integrated counselling can furthermore be adapted depending on the difficulties or psychological challenge. A combined selection of therapies, for example, may prove useful in treating certain predefined difficulties.
Holistic
Through this integrated approach, our clients also benefit from the understanding that they gain of themselves created through the various aspects that each approach takes. A broader more holistic point of view is gained of oneself.
Board-Approved Supervisor
Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
Driven by a passion to expand the knowledge within this field, our Principal Psychologist, Jeanne Currie, provides supervision to general psychologists undertaking the Psychology Board of Australia’s registrar program for endorsement in psychology. Jeanne is furthermore a Registrar Program Principal Supervisor (educational and developmental psychology).
AHPRA indicates that board-approved supervisors can perform any of these supervisory roles, provided they practice within their scope of competence:
- 4+2 or 5+1 internship – principal and/or a secondary supervisor
- Higher degree placement supervisor
- Supervisor of higher degree students working in addition to placements
- Registrar program – secondary supervisor
- Re-entry program supervisor (for psychologists returning to practice)
- Transitional program supervisor (for overseas qualified psychologists)
Assessment for Attention & Hyperactivity Difficulties
Start With An Assessment At
New Growth Psychology
At New Growth Psychology we also assess young clients for attention and or hyperactivity difficulties using an ecological assessment process.
This includes an interview with the parent, teacher and young person, a review of the client’s scholastic background (social, behavioural and learning progress), possible observation of the client in their natural environment e.g. school during play or within class during learning.
Psychometric measures are used, as part for this process, which assess a wide spectrum of behaviours, emotions, and academic problems in today’s youth.
Psychological Counselling
Psychological counselling is the skilled and principled use of relationship to facilitate self-knowledge; emotional acceptance and growth; and the optimal development of personal resources.
Here at New Growth Psychology we use an integrated approach of informed and sensitive therapies to assist clients in improving their well-being, prevent and ease distress, resolve underlining challenges and to increase their ability to function better in their daily lives.
Online Counselling / E-Therapy Available To Our Clients
New Growth Psychology furthermore offers their clients the option of hosting their counselling sessions online. Through various online platforms we are happy to accommodate clients who would prefer this method of communication.
Also known as teletherapy, your session is conducted in real-time from the comfort of your home.
“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.” Carl Gustav Jung
Parent-Child Relationships
Building a healthy relationship between a parent and child is not always as easy as it seems.
This constantly evolving relationship can seem like a losing battle for both parent and child at times.
Here at New Growth Psychology we assist parents and children in successfully steering through the challenges and dynamics that present themselves with the goal of building a healthy relationship between parent and child.
Emotional & Behavioural Issues
The ability to manage and regulate emotions is something that a child learns as they grow.
Some of these emotions and behaviours can be extremely challenging to a child and the assistance of a psychologist can be hugely beneficial for the child and parent alike.
New Growth Psychology gives your child a safe environment to talk about their feelings and to learn how they can better understand themselves.
Depression & Mood Disorders
Counselling for children experiencing low mood can be overlooked.
Our practice offers a safe environment in which we assist them in understanding their own emotions and provide support on how to find relief from the effects of low mood or depression.
Attachment
We assist children and parents who are challenged with establishing this deep emotional connection and the ramifications there of.
Children who suffer with attachment bond issues developed during their infancy years may find themselves struggling with their ability to develop trust, express emotions and build meaningful relationships later on in life.
Body Image Concerns
There is a substantial surge in body dysmorphia in children and adolescents around the world.
Our therapeutic approach assists children and their parents to handle continuous pressures to meet societal standards of beauty and the underlying trauma that is central to such difficulties.
Self-Harm
Let us assist you in navigating the difficulties experienced during times when your loved ones turn to acts of self-harm.
Self-harm is understandably frightening to parents. We assist young children and adolescents to understand and manage the emotional pain that leads to the act of self-harm.
Working closely with the young client and the parent/s we help to uncover the triggers of these events and put practices in place to assist in curbing this unhealthy coping mechanism.
Self-Esteem & Confidence
Low self-esteem and low confidence can have devastating effects on children and their outlook on life.
Self-esteem and confidence helps children to feel good about themselves, cope with mistakes, try new things, to try things repeatedly even if they fail and in general to do better at school and life challenges.
Not joining in with classmates, not standing up for themselves, giving up easily and allowing others to treat them poorly are just a few aspects that children with these challenges face on a daily basis.
Peer Relationships & Social Skills
For some children peer relationships and mastering simple social skills can be really challenging.
These challenges can often lead to them being withdrawn and rejected by their peers.
Not having the abilities to form positive peer relationships during younger years, children that face these challenges are more likely to have problematic relationships later on in adulthood.
New Growth Psychology gives their young clients the tools and understanding to overcome such challenges.
Developmental Transitions
A child’s life is filled with significant milestones that they journey through to get to adulthood.
As they transition from one stage to the next, certain challenges present themselves to the child and parent.
There are many benefits to having an outside perspective from a psychologist to assist with these important transitional phases, who can assist you in navigating through them.
Anxiety Difficulties
Worry and fear can be overwhelming and crippling for someone living with anxiety difficulties.
Everyone experiences anxiety at one time or another, it is a normal human emotion. An anxiety difficulty however is something completely different. The amount of distress that anxiety causes can interfere drastically with a young person’s ability to lead a fufilling life.
Anxiety can be triggered by varying factors; trauma, genetics, the environment in which the person interacts or a combination of these.
New Growth Psychology works closely with our clients, helping them to navigate through the challenges that anxiety bestows into their lives
Psycho-Education
Correctly understanding your mental health difficulties will assist you in navigating them through life.
Through psycho-education, we are able to assist our clients in fully understanding their diagnosed mental health condition and how it will affect their lives.
Psycho-education addresses many unanswered questions that our clients may have, putting their minds at ease and allowing them the opportunity to learn about their condition.
Health & Wellness
We work closely with parents who seek out the advice and tools to assist them in navigating the challenges of parenting in today’s times.
It is through their good mental health that they are able to develop the resilience to cope with the challenges that life presents them with.
They in turn grow into well rounded, healthy adults. We work closely with parents who seek out the advice and tools to assist them in navigating the challenges of parenting in today’s times.
Our Integrated Approach to Counselling
Our integrated approach to counselling and support involves selecting from the various therapeutic techniques best suited to our client’s unique challenges.
We then tailor the counselling to their individual needs to produce the most significant effects.
Through the use of an integrated approach we strive to improve the efficacy and efficiency of support, adapting to our client’s specific needs as an individual.
Benefits of Integrated Therapy
Individualised
Each individuals unique challenges are addressed by a unique combination of therapies, making integrated therapy highly individualised.
Flexible
Throughout the course of the client relationship, integrated counselling can be adapted over time based on any changes, experiences or life events that may occur making it a flexible support option.
Adaptable
Integrated counselling can furthermore be adapted depending on the difficulties or psychological challenge. A combined selection of therapies, for example, may prove useful in treating certain predefined difficulties.
Holistic
Through this integrated approach, our clients also benefit from the understanding that they gain of themselves created through the various aspects that each approach takes. A broader more holistic point of view is gained of oneself.
Board-Approved Supervisor
Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
Driven by a passion to expand the knowledge within this field, our Principal Psychologist, Jeanne Currie, provides supervision to general psychologists undertaking the Psychology Board of Australia’s registrar program for endorsement in psychology. Jeanne is furthermore a Registrar Program Principal Supervisor (educational and developmental psychology).
AHPRA indicates that board-approved supervisors can perform any of these supervisory roles, provided they practice within their scope of competence:
- 4+2 or 5+1 internship – principal and/or a secondary supervisor
- Higher degree placement supervisor
- Supervisor of higher degree students working in addition to placements
- Registrar program – secondary supervisor
- Re-entry program supervisor (for psychologists returning to practice)
- Transitional program supervisor (for overseas qualified psychologists)
Assessment for Attention & Hyperactivity Difficulties
Start With An Assessment At
New Growth Psychology
At New Growth Psychology we also assess young clients for attention and or hyperactivity difficulties using an ecological assessment process.
This includes an interview with the parent, teacher and young person, a review of the client’s scholastic background (social, behavioural and learning progress), possible observation of the client in their natural environment e.g. school during play or within class during learning.
Psychometric measures are used, as part for this process, which assess a wide spectrum of behaviours, emotions, and academic problems in today’s youth.
Psychological Counselling
Psychological counselling is the skilled and principled use of relationship to facilitate self-knowledge; emotional acceptance and growth; and the optimal development of personal resources.
Here at New Growth Psychology we use an integrated approach of informed and sensitive therapies to assist clients in improving their well-being, prevent and ease distress, resolve underlining challenges and to increase their ability to function better in their daily lives.
“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.” Carl Gustav Jung
Online Counselling / E-Therapy Available To Our Clients
New Growth Psychology furthermore offers their clients the option of hosting their counselling sessions online.
Through various online platforms we are happy to accommodate clients who would prefer this method of communication.
Also known as teletherapy, your session is conducted in real-time from the comfort of your home.
Counselling Services Available For Your & Your Loved Ones
Parent-Child Relationships
Building a healthy relationship between a parent and child is not always as easy as it seems.
This constantly evolving relationship can seem like a losing battle for both parent and child at times.
Here at New Growth Psychology we assist parents and children in successfully steering through the challenges and dynamics that present themselves with the goal of building a healthy relationship between parent and child.
Emotional & Behavioural Issues
The ability to manage and regulate emotions is something that a child learns as they grow.
Some of these emotions and behaviours can be extremely challenging to a child and the assistance of a psychologist can be hugely beneficial for the child and parent alike.
New Growth Psychology gives your child a safe environment to talk about their feelings and to learn how they can better understand themselves.
Depression & Mood Disorders
Counselling for children experiencing low mood can be overlooked.
Our practice offers a safe environment in which we assist them in understanding their own emotions and provide support on how to find relief from the effects of low mood or depression.
Attachment
We assist children and parents who are challenged with establishing this deep emotional connection and the ramifications there of.
Children who suffer with attachment bond issues developed during their infancy years may find themselves struggling with their ability to develop trust, express emotions and build meaningful relationships later on in life.
Body Image Concerns
There is a substantial surge in body dysmorphia in children and adolescents around the world.
Our therapeutic approach assists children and their parents to handle continuous pressures to meet societal standards of beauty and the underlying trauma that is central to such difficulties.
Self-Harm
Let us assist you in navigating the difficulties experienced during times when your loved ones turn to acts of self-harm.
We assist young children and adolescents to understand and manage the emotional pain that leads to the act of self-harm.
Working closely with the young client and the parent/s we help to uncover the triggers of these events and put practices in place to assist in curbing this unhealthy coping mechanism.
Self-Esteem & Confidence
Low self-esteem and low confidence can have devastating effects on children and their outlook on life.
Self-esteem and confidence helps children to feel good about themselves, cope with mistakes, try new things, to try things repeatedly even if they fail and in general to do better at school and life challenges.
Not joining in with classmates, not standing up for themselves, giving up easily and allowing others to treat them poorly are just a few aspects that children with these challenges face on a daily basis.
Peer Relationships & Social Skills
For some children peer relationships and mastering simple social skills can be really challenging.
These challenges can often lead to them being withdrawn and rejected by their peers.
Not having the abilities to form positive peer relationships during younger years, children that face these challenges are more likely to have problematic relationships later on in adulthood.
New Growth Psychology gives their young clients the tools and understanding to overcome such challenges.
Developmental Transitions
A child’s life is filled with significant milestones that they journey through to get to adulthood.
As they transition from one stage to the next, certain challenges present themselves to the child and parent.
There are many benefits to having an outside perspective from a psychologist to assist with these important transitional phases, who can assist you in navigating through them.
Anxiety Difficulties
Worry and fear can be overwhelming and crippling for someone living with anxiety difficulties.
Everyone experiences anxiety at one time or another, it is a normal human emotion. An anxiety difficulty however is something completely different. The amount of distress that anxiety causes can interfere drastically with a young person’s ability to lead a fufilling life.
Anxiety can be triggered by varying factors; trauma, genetics, the environment in which the person interacts or a combination of these.
New Growth Psychology works closely with our clients, helping them to navigate through the challenges that anxiety bestows into their lives
Psycho-Education
Correctly understanding your mental health difficulties will assist you in navigating them through life.
Through psycho-education, we are able to assist our clients in fully understanding their diagnosed mental health condition and how it will affect their lives.
Psycho-education addresses many unanswered questions that our clients may have, putting their minds at ease and allowing them the opportunity to learn about their condition.
Health & Wellness
We work closely with parents who seek out the advice and tools to assist them in navigating the challenges of parenting in today’s times.
It is through their good mental health that they are able to develop the resilience to cope with the challenges that life presents them with.
They in turn grow into well rounded, healthy adults. We work closely with parents who seek out the advice and tools to assist them in navigating the challenges of parenting in today’s times.
Our Integrated Approach to Counselling
Our integrated approach to counselling and support involves selecting from the various therapeutic techniques best suited to our client’s unique challenges.
We then tailor the counselling to their individual needs to produce the most significant effects.
Through the use of an integrated approach we strive to improve the efficacy and efficiency of support, adapting to our client’s specific needs as an individual.
The Benefits of…
Integrated Therapy
Individualised
Each individuals unique challenges are addressed by a unique combination of therapies, making integrated therapy highly individualised.
Flexible
Throughout the course of the client relationship, integrated counselling can be adapted over time based on any changes, experiences or life events that may occur making it a flexible support option.
Adaptable
Integrated counselling can furthermore be adapted depending on the difficulties or psychological challenge. A combined selection of therapies, for example, may prove useful in treating certain predefined difficulties.
Holistic
Through this integrated approach, our clients also benefit from the understanding that they gain of themselves created through the various aspects that each approach takes. A broader more holistic point of view is gained of oneself.
Board-Approved Supervisor
Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
Driven by a passion to expand the knowledge within this field, our Principal Psychologist, Jeanne Currie, provides supervision to general psychologists undertaking the Psychology Board of Australia’s registrar program for endorsement in psychology.
Jeanne is furthermore a Registrar Program Principal Supervisor (educational and developmental psychology).
AHPRA indicates that board-approved supervisors can perform any of these supervisory roles, provided they practice within their scope of competence:
- 4+2 or 5+1 internship – principal and/or a secondary supervisor
- Higher degree placement supervisor
- Supervisor of higher degree students working in addition to placements
- Registrar program – secondary supervisor
- Re-entry program supervisor (for psychologists returning to practice)
- Transitional program supervisor (for overseas qualified psychologists)
Assessment for Attention & Hyperactivity Difficulties
Start With An Assessment At New Growth Psychology
At New Growth Psychology we also assess young clients for attention and or hyperactivity difficulties using an ecological assessment process.
This includes an interview with the parent, teacher and young person, a review of the client’s scholastic background (social, behavioural and learning progress), possible observation of the client in their natural environment e.g. school during play or within class during learning.
Psychometric measures are used, as part for this process, which assess a wide spectrum of behaviours, emotions, and academic problems in today’s youth.