INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHY LIVING - Key Persons
Brooke brings a warm, genuine and empathic approach to her work with clients. She works hard to create a safe and supportive space for clients where they feel heard and understood. Brooke and her clients work together as a team to create greater self-awareness, self-compassion, skills and confidence to make lasting life changes. Her non-judgemental, flexible and practical approach are informed not only by her extensive training but also by a full and varied life experience.
Job Titles:
- Clinical Psychology Registrar
Job Titles:
- Clinical Psychology Registrar
Jamie is a warm and compassionate psychologist who tailors therapy to the individual needs and goals of her clients. She helps to support them through managing life's challenges and improving wellbeing. Jamie is known for providing a safe therapeutic space that balances evidence-based change strategies with validation and empathy. This helps her clients to feel safe and understood, yet empowered to make and sustain change.
Jenn is a Clinical Psychologist, passionate about supporting and empowering her clients to improve their emotional wellbeing, quality of life, capacity to manage distress and ability to cope with difficulties. Jenn's approach to therapy is client-centred, collaborative, empathetic and relational.
Jenn has a deep interest in working with complex presentations across adulthood, particularly in helping support individuals who have experienced trauma and complex trauma, including family of origin and attachment difficulties.
Job Titles:
- Clinical Psychologist
- Director
Naomi is an open-minded, non-judgemental therapist with a collaborative and holistic approach to therapy. Interested in each individual's unique story, she holds space for their past experiences and offers practical strategies to help navigate internal and external obstacles so individuals can move towards their goals with insight, awareness and authenticity.
She has received training in, and draws from evidence-based therapies such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Schema Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and other Mindfulness-based Therapies. Naomi's approach is neuro-diversity affirming, gender affirming and trauma informed.
Naomi supports clients experiencing a wide range of issues, with particular strengths working with the following issues:
Depression
Anxiety
OCD
Stress management
Trauma
Work/life balance
Substance Use and Addiction
Gender dysphoria
Sexuality
Naomi has experience and a special interest in working with members of the LGBTQIA+ community. This included supporting clients as they explore their gender identity or sexual orientation, support during transition, navigating relationships, and managing general challenges as well as those specific to marginalised groups.
Qualifications and experience
Theis believes in creating a safe, non-judgemental environment for his work with clients. He believes it is important for the therapist to be present with the client; whatever they are going through or have gone through and for the client to feel safe, validated and authentically listened to in that space. His approach is to work in a collaborative and gradual manner, moving at a pace that feels safe for the client.
Theresa is a warm and empathetic clinician. She has a collaborative therapeutic style and views the process of therapy as a partnership whereby clients are empowered to build insight into their own patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviours. Theresa offers a safe and grounded space to assist clients to identify changes they'd like to make in their lives and explore how to achieve and maintain these.
Job Titles:
- Clinical Psychology Registrar