Clinical psychologyis an integration of science, theory and clinical knowledge for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and personal development. Clinical psychologists are specialists in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of psychological problems and mental illness.
A number of people in our team are members of the APS College of Clinical Psychologists This college maintains the highest standards for clinical psychology practice in Australia.
See www.psychology.org.au for further details.
We have a number of specialist clinical psychologists who provide assessment and treatment for children, adolescents and adults who may be experiencing emotional or behavioural concerns such as depression, grief, anxiety, drugs or alcohol, family or relationship concerns, trauma, abuse, injury, pain or health issues.
We offer individual, couple and family therapy based on empirically validated treatment methodologies.
The following members of our team are endorsed to practice as Clinical Psychology Specialists with the Psychology Board of Australia.
- Antoinette Harmer, Clinical Psychologist - click HERE for full information on Antoinette
- Dr Allison Clarke, Clinical Psychologist - click HERE for full information on Allison
- Joan Webb, Clinical Psychologist - click HERE for full information on Joan
- Dr Lyndall Strazdins, Clinical Psychologist - click HERE for full information on Lyndall
- Michiyo Hashimoto, Clinical Psychologist - click HERE for full information on Michiyo
Health Psychology
Health psychologists specialise in understanding the relationships between psychological factors (e.g. behaviours, attitudes, beliefs) and health and illness. Health psychologists practice in two main areas: health promotion (prevention of illness and promotion of healthy lifestyles) and clinical health (application of psychology to illness assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation).
Dr Allison Clarke is a member of the APS College of Health Psychologists
http://www.groups.psychology.org.au/chp/
and has a professional doctorate in Health Psychology and she continues to blend her Health Psychology practice with Clinical Psychology.
- Dr Allison Clarke, Clinical Psychologist - click HERE for full information on Allison
Child & Adolescent Psychology
We provide specialist psychological assessment and intervention to help children and adolescents to discuss, explore and manage important emotional, social and educational issues, such as anxiety, depression, trauma, abuse, violence exposure, PTSD, behavioural problems, adjustment problems, sleep and feeding difficulties, socialisation and self-esteem difficulties, parent-child relationship concerns and grief and loss.
Our experienced child psychologists can also provide children and their carers with assistance for child health and medical concerns, learning difficulties and physical/sensory impairments.
The following member of our team is highly experienced in working with children and young people.
- Joan Webb, Clinical Psychologist - click HERE for full information on Joan.
Educational, Developmental & Neuropsychological assessments
We provide specialist assessment to objectively measure cognitive abilities of children, adolescents and adults. We provide you with a detailed report and recommendations that can provide direction for targeted learning programs at school and home.
For children, assessment is particularly helpful for children with dyslexia or other learning disabilities and determining school readiness. We specialise in assessing students who may struggle academically or who may have a learning disability.
For adults, we can assess cognitive or learning difficulties and traumatic brain injury.
Forensic Psychology
Forensic psychologists apply psychological theory and skills to the understanding and functioning of the legal and criminal justice system. They often work in criminal, civil and family legal contexts and provide services for perpetrators, victims and justice personnel. Forensic psychology encompasses issues such as: the causes, prevention and treatment of criminal behaviour; the psychology of police, the courts and the correctional system; and the contributions of psychological evidence to legal proceedings.
Antoinette Harmer is an Associate member of the APS College of Forensic Psychologists http://www.groups.psychology.org.au/cfp/ pending the completion of her Doctorate degree in Forensic Psychology.
After approximately 10 years as a practicing psychologist and 7 years in private practice doing both clinical and forensic psychology, Antoinette embarked on second graduate degree to formalise her grounding and practice in forensic psychology. Antoinette completed the coursework and specialist supervision for the PsychD (Forensic) at Charles Sturt University under Professor Don Thomson and is currently being supervised to complete a research project in the area of family and child law by Professor Jane Goodman-Delahunty.
In relation to forensic psychology practice, Antoinette has provided forensic assessments for clients in criminal, civil and family or child areas of law, with the majority of experience in private practice as an independent court expert in the Family Court and Children’s Court (Care & Protection proceedings) in the ACT. Antoinette has also worked with parents recovering from addiction and their children in a residential drug rehabilitation program and provided group and individual treatment for offenders as a private practice contractor to ACT Corrective Services.
Antoinette has been a lecturer on the LLM (Advocacy) course at the College of Law, ANU since 2006. She has also provided full day workshops to the Clinical Psychology doctoral students at the ANU. In 2011 Antoinette in the Course Convenor and primary lecturer for a course entitled “Forensic Psychology and Legal Practice Issues for Clinical Psychologists” – a course run for the graduate Clinical Psychology students in the Psychology Department, ANU.
Antoinette is one of the founding committee members of the ACT Chapter of the Australian & New Zealand Association of Psychology, Psychiatry & Law.
http://www.anzappl.org/
Antoinette is currently unable to accept referrals for forensic assessments and reports at this time because she is working on the final write-up and publication of her Doctoral research.
- Antoinette Harmer, Clinical Psychologist click HERE for full information on Antoinette
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