Therapy and Interests
Josh is a senior clinical psychologist with over a decades experience working in both public and private health settings. He is a former university lecturer in clinical psychology, and has developed interventions for child mental health disorders at university research clinics. He is passionate about delivering evidence-based interventions for mental health problems affecting individuals of all ages.
Josh uses cognitive-behavioural therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, exposure therapy, attachment based family systems therapy and mindfulness based cognitive therapy. At this clinic, where appropriate, we recommend mindfulness meditation as an integrated strategy (as part of a broader treatment approach) to help individuals manage problematic stress, anxiety and depression - usually in adults.
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PSYCS can help individuals and individuals and families with following conditions:
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- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Major depressive episode (i.e. depression)
- Generalised anxiety disorder (i.e. chronic worry)
- Social anxiety or social phobia
- Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Stress disorders (i.e. acute stress from work or relationship breakdown)
- Adjustment disorders (i.e. emotional changes such as depression following significant negative events)
- Eating and relate disorders
- Body dysmorphia
- Skin picking and relate disorders (e.g., trichotillomania)
- Panic disorder
- Specific phobias (e.g., spider or fear of the dark)
- Separation anxiety disorder
- Dysthymia (i.e. chronic feelings of low mood and motivation which can tip over into depressive episodes)
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