Judy appreciates that every client and family is unique and deserves to have a treatment approach structured around their individual needs, strengths and personal values.
Judy is able to draw on twenty years experience working in private practice, community, hospital, residential and critical care settings, with experience and expertise across a broad range of mental health needs and personal issues.
Judy has a special interest in supporting clients to create a quality life and future for themselves, through processing their unique life experiences and improving self-confidence, self-care, and emotion regulation for all those from school-age children through to adolescents and adults. She is also available to work with clients supported through the NDIS and DVA.
Judy’s therapeutic style while always professional, is noticeably authentic and eclectic, so as to provide individualised support for each and every client.
Judy’s therapeutic approach is neuro-affirming and trauma-informed, and encompasses elements of:
- Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT and RO-DBT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) with Mindfulness
- Schema Therapy with RET (Brief Trauma Processing)
- Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
- Art Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Somatic Therapy with Mindfulness
- Social Skills and Psycho-Education
Special interests:
• Emotion Dysregulation• Grief and Loss
• Dissociative Disorders
• Trauma - Adjustment Disorder, PTSD, Complex Developmental Trauma
• Neurodivergence including Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD, SPD, Tourette, Dyslexia
• Mood and Anxiety Disorders• Personality Disorders
*Judy is also fully trained and accredited in Psychedelic Assisted Therapy and approved to work with accredited psychiatrists in this field.
