SAGE OF MIND - Key Persons
Alma is a client-centered therapist, dedicated to providing individualised treatment to her clients in a supportive, emphatic and non-judgemental manner.
Job Titles:
- Clinical Psychologist
- Director
- Founder
Candice is a Clinical Psychologist and the Founder/Director of Sage of Mind. She is client-entered and provides gender affirming care. Candice is in the process of applying for Advanced Accreditation with The International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST) for both Individual and Group Schema Therapy. She is also a full member of the ISST. She has a keen interest in treating Complex Trauma and searching for the deeper level healing to improve her client's quality of life. She is also a Clinical Supervisor for all streams of gaining full registration and provides Individual and Group Supervision.
Job Titles:
- Registered Psychologist, Sage of Mind - Available at Picton
Cara has a passion for helping people achieve their goals and overcome life's challenges. She is guided by a person-centred approach to therapy and uses evidence-based techniques from Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Schema Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Mindfulness.
Catherine is a Registered Psychologist with over 10 years' experience working in a range of public and private settings. She has throughout this time worked with children, adolescents, adults, older adults, couples and families. She has had further experience working with issues pertaining to mental illness, crisis case management, eating disorders, trauma/grief and loss, rehabilitation, substance use and systematic family issues.
She is a client-focused therapist and is passionate about her work. Catherine individually caters therapeutic styles to meet her client's needs. Therapy can be provided via face-to-face therapy at the Picton office and/or phone/FaceTime sessions.
Catherine is also a Board Approved Supervisor.
Job Titles:
- Clinical Psychologist, Sage of Mind - Available at Picton
Catherine is an endorsed Clinical Psychologist and Board Approved Supervisor with 14 years' experience, including 10 years in private practice. Catherine has experience in both inpatient and outpatient settings, providing individual, couple, family and group therapy and interventions. She has worked in hospital, community and educational settings, including psychiatric inpatient units, disability support services, neuropsychological rehabilitation, older adult's mental health, juvenile justice, young offender programs, metabolic rehabilitation and delivered psychology coursework to students at University of Wollongong.
Job Titles:
- Registered Psychologist, Sage of Mind - Telehealth
The modern world can be difficult to make sense of with so many competing demands and complicated situations. Joel is passionate about helping you find a balance between the complexities of modernity and your true self.
Joel is a registered Psychologist with years of experience working with adolescents and adults from 12 to 65 years old using a customised approach tailored to your own personal style.
Linda has been a practicing registered psychologist for over 15 years. She has practiced both in the public and private sector. She enjoys working collaboratively with clients in a warm, safe, confidential and supportive environment. She likes to help her clients to identify important goals they wish to achieve, and/or barriers needed to be identified and overcome. She provides assessment, education and skills to ensure her clients achieve their goals and treatment desires, safely and effectively.
Her approach is eclectic and tailored to the needs of each specific client/couple. There are many reasons individuals and couples seek treatment and all are treated with respect, compassion and empathy.
She works with individuals and couples from 18 years to 65 and upwards to support and facilitate their treatment and recovery across a range of psychological issues including depression, anxiety, adjustment disorder, personality vulnerabilities, grief and loss, eating disorders, drug and alcohol problems, trauma, PTSD, mood disorders and relationship issues.
She aims to provide the necessary skills to enable and empower clients and couples to become their own therapist and am always open and willing to provide top up sessions post completion of treatment to reinforce the skills and learning if and when needed.
Job Titles:
- Counsellor at "QUEST
- Registered Psychologist
Lisa is a registered psychologist, an accredited neuropsychotherapy practitioner and has a master's in counselling and psychotherapy
She works within the private sector providing individual and group counselling in a range of areas.
Lisa believes that the core therapeutic values of empathy, validation and a safe space to process emotions are integral to the healing process. Lisa works on meeting the client ‘where they are' using a client centred and neuroscience based approach. Lisa is aware of the complexities that life events can bring and the importance of having a safe space to talk about our feelings so they can be expressed and validated.
Lisa also works as a retreat counsellor at "QUEST". She is passionate about, and grateful for this role because she is able to incorporate QUEST philosophies to provide an empathic and compassionate environment to facilitate healing.