Member since 2023

Servicing area

Clifton Hill

Focus areas

Depression Trauma Boundaries Anger Shame Anxiety

A Healing Place - Psychology Clinic

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Good on you for investigating ways to heal, it is certainly possible for you to heal your mind and heart. Your way can become clear. The only requirement is a determination to look within, to get to the heart of your difficulties. Hello, I'm Sweeney. I believe we suffer when unconsciously learned patterns outlive their usefulness and lead to contortions in the mind; denial of reality, anger turned inwards, uncontrollable negative thinking, emotionally shutting down, to name a few ways we suffer. We heal by recognising these patterns and changing them.

A Healing Place - Psychology Clinic

Servicing area

Clifton Hill

Focus areas

Depression Trauma Boundaries Anger Shame Anxiety

Enduring psychological suffering is unnecessary. Pain alerts us to something; loss (sadness), a boundary being crossed (anger), that we have hurt or let someone down (guilt), that we are not happy with our choices and want to change (regret).

Pain hurts, but there is a purity to it, a naturalness, when we really let ourselves feel it. People don’t come to see a psychologist because of pain, they come because they are suffering.

Suffering is not something we do on purpose.

Suffering does not feel pure or natural, it feels like a contortion of the mind; depression and self loathing, anxiety, meaninglessness, subjective worthlessness, rumination, addiction, shame, PTSD, projecting onto others, eating disorders.

Suffering occurs because…

Parts of us try to cope with reality in a way that doesn’t work anymore. For example:

Our family never let us talk-back or express anger or disagreement, so we learned to turn anger inwards on ourselves and make it our fault, but this is now prohibiting us setting boundaries as an adult and we find we get depressed instead of angry

Or, we would meet disapproval when being spontaneous or reckless, so we learned to overthink, but now we are paralysed by rumination.

Or, we can suffer when we struggle to recover from something awful from our past, or when we have taken on a belief that distorts our perspective.

Suffering occurs because…

Parts of us try to cope with reality in a way that doesn’t work anymore. For example:

Or, we would meet disapproval when being spontaneous or reckless, so we learned to overthink, but now we are paralysed by rumination.

Or, we can suffer when we struggle to recover from something awful from our past, or when we have taken on a belief that distorts our perspective.

Examination of the deeper causes of suffering

I enjoy complementing powerful behavioural interventions with an examination of the deeper issues at the heart of people’s suffering; i.e. to get the ball rolling quickly with simple changes that can often yield great benefits, and then to investigate with clients the deeper causes of their suffering so they can reduce it.

Learning to regulate anxiety

I feel privileged to help clients learn to regulate their anxiety, so that they can confront the difficulties and disappointments of their life and feel their pain, so they can set themselves free from their suffering.

To help them feel angry at people who hurt them, rather than blame themselves which makes them depressed and anxious

To help them feel guilt for something they did rather than shame themselves for who they believe it makes them

To help them accept uncertainty rather than endlessly ruminating over worst case scenarios

To help them confront horrible traumas rather than avoid the memories and hence leave them unprocessed, uninvestigated, and unhealed

To help them feel their sadness rather than numbing it and by collateral numbing themselves to life and joy and meaning

Let’s get to know and understand you better.

I’ll meet you with a warm and relaxed style as we get to know each other and together build a good understanding of where you are at, how you got there, and where you would like to be. Then we’ll see what we can do to get you on your way and help you to start feeling better as soon as possible.

‘What is the problem you are seeking help with?’ Is the first question I will ask you.

Services

2 Services

2 Hour Block Session (trial therapy - $218.35 after rebate)

1hr 50min

Psychotherapy

~~$350~~ $263 Per session

25% OFF

A two hour ISTDP style session, where we focus together to get very specific about what the problem is you are seeking help for, if you really want to work on it, what are some recent examples of then it was a problem for you and what were the mechanics c

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One Hour Sessions - ($103.35 after Rebate)

55min

Psychotherapy EMDR Therapy

$235 Per session

Dynamic therapy aimed at joining forces so we can get to the heart of your difficulties, and get you true relief. Therapy is psychodynamically informed, and I incorporate EMDR therapy and sometimes trauma focused CBT therapy when helpful.

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