I work with individuals & couples from diverse backgrounds to help with issues related to marital and pre-marital relationships, stress, anxiety, interpersonal conflicts, separation, women's health, adjustment post immigration and maternity, and work-related issues. I use elements of Gottman Method Couples Therapy, Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy and Emotionally Focused Therapy, and have a trauma-based approach in my practice.
Psychologist, Clinical Psychologist and Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist
As an experienced psychodynamic psychotherapist I try to understand the meaning of behaviour rather than pathologising behaviour. My focus is on helping you to make connections about how your past history may have contributed to your present difficulties and to empower you to find your own voice and create effective change in your life and in your personal, couple and family relationships.
Christine is a registered psychologist with experience supporting children, adolescents and families; she is Principal Psychologist and Director of Hargan Psychology. Christine's background is in the disability and juvenile justice environments; her ethos within the Hargan team is that all clients are encouraged to live their BEST life according to them. Christine has developed a number of group programs, including B.E.S.T. Kids and B.E.S.T. Parents (Building Essential Skills Together).
My focus is on creating a comfortable space for my clients, so we can work together and clearly understand the client's issues and needs. I really want meaningful change for my clients, and every person's experience is unique and important. My goal is for clients to feel respected and heard, and to feel that they are getting what they need out of therapy. I offer in-person and online therapy sessions.
Specialising in trauma recovery particularly after workplace situations that have prompted workers compensation claims, I also provide investigation services using forensic psychology knowledge and skills. My background in training and workplace cultural change assists individual support services.
We work together through your present experiences, supporting you to understand, love and care for the parts of you that may be stuck in the past, in pain or isolated. I bring experience from my years of working in facilitation, group work and therapy to be with you as you connect in with all parts of yourself. We can use these sessions to be deeply curious about the truth you have stored deep within your being. I believe we all hold the answers to the questions that can hold us back, keep us small and stuck in a life that doesn't bring us true happiness. My style of being works alongside your own brilliance to co-create the session that you need.
Registered Psychotherapist, Masters in Gestalt Therapy
I believe in creating a safe space that holds your experience and your personal story so that you have the freedom to explore whatever comes up. Using somatic (body-based) methods, I support you to find your own strength and inner resources.
Psychotherapy with Anna provides a safe and confidential environment allowing you to develop a therapeutic relationship for exploring problems and difficulties in your life. This relationship offers you new experiences that facilitate transformational change and personal growth.
PLEASE NOTE : I AM NOT A SERVICE PROVIDER FOR THE MEDICARE BENEFITS SCHEME, otherwise known as the Mental Health Care Plan.
I am a member of the LGBTIQA+ community and welcome working with people from the community for any issue, but particularly with suicidality and gender dysphoria. I also very much welcome working with non-LGBTIQA+ men and women for any of the difficulties listed on my Specialities page and other issues beyond that list.
I work with people’s understanding of their mental states and knowledge of their body, utilising somatic principles in conjunction with the specialist modalities listed above.
The areas I specialise in are as follows: attachment disorders, complex trauma histories, those diagnosed with personality disorders, specialising in Borderline Personality Disorder. More recently I have been working with a lot of clients who have ADHD and ASD. I offer ASD assessments and hope to offer ADHD assessment screeners soon. I have had some success with those diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder and BiPolar Affective Disorder.
I am open to working with adults from the age of 16 through to the end of life.
You know how some men and women who are people-pleasers struggle with being too busy and always putting others first so they push down their own feelings, needs, and wants, which means they never feel truly seen, heard, known, and loved? Well, what I do is provide a safe space to deepen exploration of themselves by offering humanistic-experiential therapy sessions. This allows my clients to understand themselves better, honour their emotions, needs, and wants, and improve their relationships with others. I work well with clients who are trying to navigate new and different phases of their lives, from adolescence and above, including individual and couple work.
5 Years Experience
