Services

Therapy & Support

Personal growth is a difficult thing to do for many people. Being able to imagine how a better version of them could do life can be hard - especially when they don’t know how to recognise or work with a particular issue that is holding them back somehow. 

All humans want to be a better version of themselves in some way. That’s why personal growth and well-being is for everyone.

Krysten works with people aged 18 years and over, and is familiar with a range of presenting issues and diagnoses, including:

• Trauma/Complex Trauma/Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

• Personality Disorders

• Grief and loss

• Adjustment and stress related to life changes

• Anxiety and Depression

• Bipolar Disorder

• Schizophrenia

• Other factors impacting health and well-being

Therapeutic Approaches

You and Krysten will discuss and agree on the therapeutic approach you’re going to use together, as per your individual needs. The therapeutic approaches Krysten most often uses are:

• Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)

• Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)

• Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)

Krysten can also use or incorporate the following therapies, as agreed upon with you:

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

• Mindfulness

• Interpersonal Therapy (IPT)

Psychological Assessment

Psychological assessment can be used to help someone understand how it is that they individually function and therefore, why they struggle with certain things. This also allows a psychologist to make individualized recommendations, regarding how someone can be supported with their presenting issues. This allows the person, individually or with their supports, to improve the quality of their life over time.

Krysten provides a range of assessment to young people and adults, depending on the issue/s they’re being referred for. This can include diagnostic assessment (e.g., Learning impairments, Autism Spectrum Disorder) or assessment to determine someone’s individual functioning, as per the diagnosis they are living with (e.g., Schizophrenia, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder).

Assessment Types

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT

• Intelligence (i.e., IQ)

• Attention, Memory, and Learning ability

• Executive Functioning

• Academic abilities

PSYCHOSOCIAL ASSESSMENT

• Personality

• Mood

• Adaptive Functioning

• Behavioural

• Schema