What It's Like Working With Me
Steve ensure clients receive personalized services that are designed that are designed to educate, empower, engage, and facilitate processes of growth, self-awareness, and self-healing.
Steve’s main modus operandi follows a person-centred approach.
How I Can Help
- Anxiety & Stress
- Depression & Low Mood
- Parenting & Family Pressures
- Trauma & Past Experiences
- Grief & Loss
- Self-Esteem & Confidence
- Life Changes & Transitions
- ⭐ General Support / Other
Steve may be a good fit if…
- Accessing counselling through an EAP or NDIS plan
- Dealing with anxiety, emotional distress or ongoing stress
- Working through trauma or difficult past experiences
- Wanting help understanding strong emotional reactions or recurring patterns
Approaches I May Use
For the past 30+ years Steve has been working with clients who may be experiencing trauma-induced, substance-abuse, aged or brain injury-related mental health challenges. In addition, he works with various agencies involved in child-care, adoption/guardianship, and judicial issues.
Steve draws from a range of approaches depending on your needs, including:
- EMDR
- Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Schema Therapy
- Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
- Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
- Trauma Focused Therapy
Experience & Qualifications
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Experience
Steve received a PhD from the University of London, UK. He then undertook post-doctoral research in the Department of Medicine, Royal Postgraduate Medical School in London. He then went on to undertake research at the Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine and the Institute of Neurological Science, University of Texas, USA.
Whilst in the USA Steve worked with leading therapists in the exploration of Men’s issues surrounding attachment, anger, emotional classification and differentiation and the expression of emotions in processes. Coupled with this period in the USA he explored various east-west philosophies, approaches to holistic health and psychotherapy. He subsequently developed an integrative systems-based focus on the underlying bases of psychological processes and behaviours. Over the past 30 years he has been studying the biological basis of behaviour, and in particular, the effect of stress upon the development of psychological trauma. He also looks at evidence-based research in the field of psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) including the connection between stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma-related behaviour.
Qualifications & Registrations
- PhD
- Certificate in Applied Neuroscience and Brain Health
- Registered Clinical Holistic Therapist Australia (Number: 2122004; Credential: 41407671)
- Member of the Australian Association on Infant Mental Health (AAIMH)
- Member of the Australian ADHD Professionals Association (AADP)
- Member of Autism Spectrum Australia
- Member of the Global Network of Trauma Professionals
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