Dissociative symptoms can leave you feeling disconnected from yourself and your surroundings, sometimes as a result of past trauma or overwhelming experiences. I provide compassionate support and evidence-based interventions to help you navigate through your dissociation.
I have worked with people with a variety of dissociative disorders, including dissociative identity disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder with derealisation/depersonalisation, and borderline personality disorder. For DID, my aim is to help you to function at your best, not to forcibly integrate personalities (which can be very damaging). For other dissociative disorders, my aim is to help you reduce your symptoms and improve function and relationships.
Psychologist, Registered Clinical Psychologists - Dr Peter Gibbons and Adri Hunt
Both therapists have had ongoing training in dealing with dissociative states and have worked with deeply traumatised clients to enable a more effective response to trauma triggers, distress and stress-related situations. This process usually involves a therapeutic relationship that can stretch over a number of years. Both therapists are committed to ongoing training in the field of trauma
Dissociative Disorders represent a greater area of dysfunction in many mental illnesses than is commonly understood. Kate works somatically, and with the client’s mental states, to treat this condition. It is a complex area for treatment, and often exists along with other mental illness disorders.