Patricia Lee
Patty
Psychologist - Relationship Therapist - Clinical Supervisor
SERVICES
About Patty
Patty has been working as a Registered Psychologist and Relationship Therapist since 1994.
She has a wide range of experience assisting couples, families and individuals with various concerns, including:- Relationship problems,
- problems with conflict, communication,
- abuse or violence,
- grief and loss,
- depression, anxiety,
- addictions (drugs and alcohol),
Patty has also worked as a Trainer and Group Leader.
How can Counselling help?
Counselling can help you to make changes in how you deal with problems or how you relate to others.
Counselling can provide:- emotional healing or
- help you to understand and work through beliefs and thought patterns that hinder happiness and good relationships.
Counselling with Patty:- means being heard
- means increasing self awareness and acceptance
- is a challenging period of growth, discovery and change.
Relationship Counselling
Is Couples Counselling what you need?
You and your partner may have struggled for some time with:- communication problems
- loss of meaning and shared purpose
- power battles
- increased blame, bitterness, defensiveness and stonewalling
- affairs
- addictions
- abuse
- loss
Couples Counselling can assist you both to understand the true source of your problems and then to work toward meaningful, realistic change. Patty spends the first few meetings understanding concerns and tracking how problems have affected relationships; and begins to work family members toward understanding or change.
Goals of relationship or family counseling vary. You and your partner may come seeking:- understanding or
- better management of insolvable problems,
- better communication
- clarification about work that individual members need to do and what is the work of the couple,
- relationship repair
- ways to manage different needs for closeness and distance,
- ways to deal with conflict about money, extended family, sex, parenting,
- and so on.
If you have any questions about whether Couples Counselling is for you, speak to Patty before your initial session.
What you can expect from Individual, Relationship or Family Therapy
You can expect that Patty will work with you to isolate your core concerns and to enable you to achieve realistic goals for yourself and your relationships. You can expect to be given take home tasks between sessions. Most people work with Patty for between 2 to 6 months, meeting fortnightly or more or less frequently.
Clinical Supervision
Patty works with experienced practitioners in clinical supervision to energise and add clinical rigour and satisfaction to their work.
Patty also provides clinical supervision and supervision toward Registration with the NSW Psychologists Registration Board.
Patty has taught and supervised Therapists, Counsellors and Psychologists since 2002.
She comes from a strong practice background theoretically based in:- Systemic theory, including Gottman, Schnarch, Strategic, Structural, Milan and Post - Modernist approaches
- Cognitive Behaviour Theory
- Mindfulness - Based practices (eg Kabat-Zinn)
- Narrative approaches
- Glasser / Reality Therapy
In Clinical Supervision, Patty works with Practitioners in a way that is contracted, goal - focussed and empowering. Patty requires Supervisees to be prepared before Supervision in order to optimise Supervision time.
Internships
Interns seeking Supervision toward Registration can work with Patty in all certificate areas except parts of Certificate 2: Psychological Testing, for which Secondary Supervision can be sourced elsewhere.
Questions?
Please feel free to contact Patty and discuss any questions you may have before deciding whether she is the best person to help you with your concerns.
Contact Patty on 0438 383 540
Email: pattylee@bigpond.com
Website: www.pattylee.com.au
Appointments
By arrangement
At Clinic 192, 192 Enmore Rd Enmore (Cnr Metropolitan St) Enmore
The Enmore Clinic has access for those with some disabilities.
Appointments are available for:- Counselling and Therapy with Individuals, Couples and Families
- Supervision with Counselors, Therapists and Psychologists.
Appointments are available after hours.
How is your relationship?
Does your relationship need nourishment?
Relationships need nurturing and nourishing, just as we need food, water, love and care.
All relationships need attention from time to time. It is usually when problems arise that we wonder what went wrong.
Problems arise for various reasons, but relationship repair involves joint work.
Couples counselling can rebuilt and repair damage in relationship.
Answer yes or no and add up your responses. Invite your partner to complete this quiz too. You are both encouraged to complete this separately and discuss your responses afterwards. If speaking together is not working, see an experienced couples therapist.
Answer Yes or No to each question
- I am satisfied in this relationship ( YES / NO )
- I know that we are different but we can agree to disagree( YES / NO )
- Talking things over with my partner seems to make things worse.( YES / NO )
- I confide in my partenr and feel understood and respected for my differences.( YES / NO )
- When disagreements arise we agree by mutual give and take( YES / NO )
- My partner tries to control who I spend time with( YES / NO )
- My partner tells me there is something wrong with( YES / NO )
- My partner tells me that what I think is wrong ( YES / NO )
- My partner threatens me physically ( YES / NO )
- We are genuinely interested in one another. ( YES / NO )
- When we fight it can take a long time before I feel at ease again ( YES / NO )
- Our discussions get far too heated ( YES / NO )
- We know and treat with respect each other hopes and dreams in this relationship ( YES / NO )
- It feels good when we have sex / are intimate ( YES / NO )
- I feel an emptiness / loneliness in this relationship ( YES / NO )
- We can negotiate our respective needs for closeness or space ( YES / NO )
- I can listen to what my partner says about my personal growth and can hold my own view about what is good to me ( YES / NO )
- I feel fundamentally criticized and disliked in this relationship ( YES / NO )
- Though we agreed to have sex with one another only, one or both of us are having affairs outside of this relationship ( YES / NO )
- There are major secrets that we keep from one another (affairs, debts, fears, hopes, successes or failures, substance misuse) ( YES / NO )
- In our relationship: work / drugs / alcohol / gambling stand in our way ( YES / NO )
- I like my partner ( YES / NO )
- I know my partner likes me ( YES / NO )
- I feel abused by my partner ( YES / NO )
- I care about my partner ( YES / NO )
For partners who are also parents - My partner puts me down to our kids ( YES / NO )
- Our children are scared that we will fight again( YES / NO )
- Our children feel insulted, belittled, mocked, smothered or dismissed. ( YES / NO )
- We try to provide emotional support so that our children develop resilience, self confidence and competence in dealing with problems ( YES / NO )
If you have selected any of the Bold "Yes" or "No" answers your relationship probably needs some help. You might need individual or couple counselling
Some of your responses may concern you. Couples counselling can help to clarify which problems are yours to deal with, which are not, and which require relationship work.
Couple or individual counselling with an experienced relationship therapist can help to clarify what is happen, what is ok for you, and for your relationship, in order to make the next steps forward.
Couples Counselling with a Patty involves: Assessing and working toward
- individual and relationship wellness
- building positive sentiment and repair attempts
- regulating reactivity
- Understanding your, and your partner’s style of connecting
- Dealing with past hurts, in a way that honours each partner and builds a better relationship now
- improved communication
- fighting fairly and regulating conflict according to couple and individual needs and life stage
- honouring one anothers’ dreams
- sharing meaning and purpose
- transforming criticism, defensiveness, contempt and stonewalling into better communication
- sorting solvable and perpetual problems.
Sources: John Gottman, 1999, and Greg Sorrell, 1999, Patty Lee, 2008.
Want to know more?
Call Patty (Registered Psychologist and Relationship Counsellor)
on 0438 383 540
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Counselling, Psychotherapy
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