I am not taking new clients until next year. Therapy & personal/professional development. You don't have to be in crisis or a disaster to come and find better ways to live your life. Sometimes simple tweaks will make a big difference. Clients living anywhere can be catered for via telehealth. I trained as a psychologist at the University of Queensland, and have been practicing as a therapist for three decades.
Alongside university I have read and studied broadly and extensively and I am passionate about understanding what makes people who they are, what helps to make life worth living, and what it means to live a full and vibrant life. I have a special interest in assisting clients through acute and longstanding trauma, as well as anxiety, stress, depression, serious illness, and relationship issues (though not couples counselling).
Alongside university I have read and studied broadly and extensively and I am passionate about understanding what makes people who they are, what helps to make life worth living, and what it means to live a full and vibrant life. I have a special interest in assisting clients through acute and longstanding trauma, as well as anxiety, stress, depression, serious illness, and relationship issues (though not couples counselling).
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I am a general psychologist with over three decades of experience. I trained at the University of Queensland where I obtained a Masters degree in Organisational Psychology. This meant that I came to therapy/counselling with a non-pathologising view of symptoms and behaviour. My view is that the vast majority of symptoms of "mental illness" are an understandable response to various life circumstances.
We use the term all the time, but what does it really mean? A trauma is something that happens to a person that is extremely horrible or horrifying and that has temporarily overwhelmed a person's resources to cope. People feel powerless in the face of trauma. What one person experiences as traumatic may not be traumatic to another.
Anxiety, worry, and their more extreme sibling panic, are just your system going into survival mode because for some reason (you may not even remember why) you have been triggered into feeling under threat. This could be physical, emotional or mental threat. People who experience anxiety have been exposed to some form of stressful life event that has triggered their brain into doing some things in order to better survive and adapt to challenges.
Stress is a part of life and can be useful by helping us perform under pressure, motivate us to do our best, and adapt to change. It can be described as simply a reaction to a stimulus that disturbs our physical or mental equilibrium at least temporarily.
Things that stress us can be things like high expectations, financial worries, sleep deprivation, health issues, work overload, time pressure, performance demands, increased roles at home or work, relationship problems, serious illness (your own or loved ones), caring roles, study pressures, sudden changes like retirement, moving, unemployment, environmental stressors like noise, cramped surroundings, pollution and many more.
Things that stress us can be things like high expectations, financial worries, sleep deprivation, health issues, work overload, time pressure, performance demands, increased roles at home or work, relationship problems, serious illness (your own or loved ones), caring roles, study pressures, sudden changes like retirement, moving, unemployment, environmental stressors like noise, cramped surroundings, pollution and many more.
Grief is a multifaceted and natural response to loss. Loss can be of someone or something. We experience loss when someone we love or feel close to dies, goes missing, or leaves. But we can also experience loss when a pet dies, or when we lose something of value to us.
Retirement, job/career loss, infertility, children leaving home, divorce or relationship endings, end of friendships, and loss of independence or health can all trigger a profound experience of loss.Grieving is what we do when we experience a loss. We primarily think of it as an emotional response, however it has a physical, cognitive, behavioural, social and philosophical dimension.
Retirement, job/career loss, infertility, children leaving home, divorce or relationship endings, end of friendships, and loss of independence or health can all trigger a profound experience of loss.Grieving is what we do when we experience a loss. We primarily think of it as an emotional response, however it has a physical, cognitive, behavioural, social and philosophical dimension.
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