Mental Health Service

My diverse industry experience includes skills in working with;

• Children five and over

• Adolescents

• Adults

• Older adults

In private practice, I work with mild to moderate mental health issues, acute, severe and complex disorder's may be best managed under a multidisciplinary team provided by a public outpatient clinic or inpatient service.

When providing mental health care to child, youth and family it is important that I use a systemic approach to my interventions.  This will involve working closely with parents or carers, at times independently from the young person.   I may use play therapy approaches when working with children, youth and family based referrals.   I  will assess the best approach on a case by case basis.

I am pleased to provide a service to patient's preferring to speak with a male counsellor for sensitive reasons.  

Examples of life events I have worked with:

• Mental Health issues 

• Anxiety

• Depression

• Suicidal ideation

• Situational crisis

• Adjustment disorder

• Grief and loss

• Emotional regulation/anger management

• Bereavement care in community and hospital setting 

• Supporting those bereaved by suicide

• Mens Health issues

• Workplace stressors

• Critical incident de-briefing

• Adversity in family of origin

• Domestic violence and family violence

• Relationship issues (intimate, family and workplace)

• Survivors of sexual assault (male and female in childhood and adulthood)

• Sexuality issues

• LGBTQIA friendly based care in all settings

• Substance use/alcohol and other drugs support to individuals and loved ones of those effected by addiction

• Family and parenting (attachment)

• Co-parenting/parallel parenting 

• Carer support

• Adjustment to illness

• Survivors of torture and trauma

• Cross cultural care

I speak Italian and a Southern Dialect from Reggio Calabria.