Therapy
with Clinical Psychologist
Dr Gill Walker
Book an appointment in-person at our Manly, Sydney clinic or Telehealth Online
Evidence-based psychological treatments provided in a timely and focused manner
Dr Gill Walker is a Clinical Psychologist, who reflects with you about the difficulties you face. These might be difficulties with how you feel, in your relationships or that impact how you think, ultimately lowering your mental health.
Sometimes reduced mental health can be recognised as a diagnosable condition, according to the DSM-V (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fifth Edition), although not everyone who might benefit from talking therapy, necessarily has a diagnosis. Even the ‘worried well’ can gain from talking therapy because it can often help you, and prevent a condition developing.
Difficulties in your life are explored, and the obstacles resolved by viewing things through a theory or model of how we function, to help you achieve insightful interpretations of how to improve your mental health.
Together we incorporate new information and make interpretations during talking therapy. Across multiple appointments together we work with some or all of these specific focussed psychological strategies.
Psychological Strategies we employ:
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Psycho-education
Aims to provide you with knowledge and understanding of various mental health issues, for example, how anxiety forms, the meaning of a diagnosis, a model to aid how we think about a situation, to achieve a better overall outcome.
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Motivational interviewing
Involves trying to enhance your motivation to change.
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Cognitive-behavioural therapy
Helps you to change unhelpful or unhealthy ways of thinking, feeling and behaving.
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Relaxation, mindfulness and meditation strategies
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Skills training
The systematic learning of skills that help the patient, and might include problem solving, social skills, communication, stress management, relationship management.
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Interpersonal therapy
Interpersonal therapy is a psychotherapy that focuses on relieving symptoms by improving interpersonal functioning. It addresses current problems and relationships rather than childhood or developmental issues. Therapists are active, non-neutral, supportive and hopeful, and they offer options for change.
Online & In-Person Therapy
We offer a range of convenient therapy options
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In-Person
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Online