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Johnson and Tiainen
Clinical Psychologist
Our therapists are fully qualified and professionally registered Clinical Psychologists, who work closely with their clients to help assess and treat mental health concerns.
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About us
Our therapists are fully qualified and professionally registered Clinical Psychologists, who work closely with their clients to help assess and treat mental health concerns. They specialise in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of psychological issues and provide a range of evidence-based treatments, which have proven to be effective over years of research and practice.
Informed by the latest scientific evidence and research, Emilia provides treatments that have been found to be effective in alleviating problems such as:
- anxiety (phobias, panic, generalised anxiety/Worry, OCD)
- depression
- anger
- adjustment difficulties
- trauma and PTSD
- parenting difficulties
- relationship problems,
- grief and loss
- life stresses
Emilia is a mother of three children and is passionate about providing support for families struggling with social, behavioural and parenting difficulties by working directly with children as well as together with their parents. She provides warm and caring methods of treatment for children, adolescents and families facing a variety of issues. These include:
- Trauma and PTSD
- Behavioural problems
- Anxiety (phobias ,generalised anxiety, worry), panic
- Depression
- School issues and refusal
- Study stress
- Bullying
- Challenges with friendships
- ADHD
- Grief and Loss
- Family breakdown
- Sibling rivalry
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Our Services
Here at Johnson and Tiainen Clinical Psychologist we are dedicated to providing the best possible support for our clients.
Therefore we’ve ensured that each of our clinicians are registered to provide Medicare and private health fund rebates that are consistent with current Government, Medicare and Australian Psychological Society guidelines.
No referral is required unless you wish to claim a rebate from Medicare which means your appointment is only a phone call away.
COGNITIVE BEHAVIOUR THERAPY
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a short-term, goal-oriented psychotherapy treatment that takes a hands-on, practical approach to problem-solving. It aims to alter patterns of thinking and behaving that underlie a person’s difficulties in order to ultimately adjust the way they feel. This approach can be used to treat a wide range of issues including anything from sleep deprivation or relationship problems to drug and alcohol abuse, anxiety or depression.
CBT works to change people’s attitude and behaviour by focusing on the cognitive processes that take place in response to thoughts, images, situations and beliefs. The treatment works to identify and adjust how these processes relate to the way a person behaves, as a way of dealing with emotional stressors.
An important advantage of CBT is that it equips the individual with a set of principles that they can apply to their lives in order to gain a sense of independence and control using practical self-help strategies. These strategies are designed to bring about positive and immediate changes in the person’s quality of life. This approach is based on the understanding that thinking negatively is a habit that, like any other, can be broken. CBT has been extensively researched and is the gold-standard treatment for many psychological difficulties.
Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is an evidence-based treatment that aims to address the needs of individuals with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other difficulties related to traumatic life events. This is achieved by incorporating various trauma-sensitive intervention components which aim to individualise techniques depending of the client’s particular circumstances. As a result, TF-CBT has proven to effectively reduce symptoms of PTSD in both children and adults alike.
TRAUMA THERAPY
Trauma Therapy
What happens when you are traumatised?
Most of the time your body routinely manages new information and experiences without you being aware of it. However, when something out of the ordinary occurs and you are traumatised by an overwhelming event (e.g. a car accident) or by being repeatedly subjected to distress (e.g. childhood neglect), your natural coping mechanism can become overloaded. This overloading can result in disturbing experiences remaining frozen in your brain or being "unprocessed". Such unprocessed memories and feelings are stored in the limbic system of your brain in a "raw" and emotional form, rather than in a verbal “story” mode. This limbic system maintains traumatic memories in an isolated memory network that is associated with emotions and physical sensations, and which are disconnected from the brain’s cortex where we use language to store memories. The limbic system’s traumatic memories can be continually triggered when you experience events similar to the difficult experiences you have been through. Often the memory itself is long forgotten, but the painful feelings such as anxiety, panic, anger or despair are continually triggered in the present. Your ability to live in the present and learn from new experiences can therefore become inhibited. EMDR helps create the connections between your brain’s memory networks, enabling your brain to process the traumatic memory in a very natural way. .
EYE MOVEMENT DESENSITISATION AND REPROCESSING (EMDR)
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a powerful psychological treatment that has been used effectively for over 20 years in a variety of international settings and cultures with many different types of psychological distress.
The mind can often heal itself naturally, in the same way as the body does. Much of this natural coping mechanism occurs during sleep, particularly during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. Francine Shapiro developed Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) in 1987, utilising this natural process in order to successfully treat Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Since then, EMDR has been used to effectively treat a wide range of mental health problems.
What can EMDR be used for?
In addition to its use for the treatment of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, EMDR has been successfully used to treat:
- anxiety and panic attacks
- depression
- stress
- phobia
- sleep problems
- complicated grief
- addictions
- pain relief, phantom limb pain
- self-esteem and performance anxiety
Our psychologists’ areas of speciality include,
but are not limited to:
- Abuse
- Acute Stress and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders
- Adolescent Issues
- ADHD
- Anger Management
- Anxiety Disorders (i.e. social anxiety, phobias, panic attacks and generalised worries)
- Behaviour Problems
- Behavioural Management Programs
- Bereavement and Grief
- Childhood Problems
- Childhood Trauma/Abuse
- Depressive Disorders (i.e. major depression, dysthymia and bipolar disorders)
- Difficult Life Transitions
- Excessive Worry and Rumination
- Health Anxiety
- Insomnia and Sleep Deprivation
- Obsessive Compulsive Behaviours
- Parenting
- Self-esteem, Self-concept and Confidence
- Stress & Buronout
- Substance Abuse
- Trauma
- Workplace Issues/Buillying
- Workplace Stressors
Fees and Rebates
We offer week-day appointments, including after-hours, at our Erskineville consultations rooms.
You do not need a referral from a doctor to book a private treatment session with us. However, if your General Practitioner (GP) provides a Mental Health Care Plan, you will be eligible for Medicare rebates.
We offer week-day appointments, including after-hours, at our Erskineville and Devonport consultations rooms
Clinical Psychology Services
- Clinical Psychology services are available for clients with or without a MHCP. If you have a Mental Health Care Plan from your GP, Medicare will reimburse you up to $131.65 for Clinical Psychologists.
- If you have private health insurance, a proportion of the fees may be redeemable from your private health insurance, depending on your health plan. Please contact your health care provider to find out about redeemable rates.
- We offer Telehealth service as well as face-to face appointments in Sydney and Devonport regions. If you have a GP referral, medicare rebates apply to both Telehealth and sessions in person with a psychologist.
Payment
Payment for treatment is to be made at the time of the appointment. Payment for reports must be made before the report is released. We accept cash, EFTPOS, EFT transfer and credit card.
- Cancellation fees: Any appointment cancelled with less than 24 hours notice will incur a fee.
- Claims are processed using the Medicare Easy Claim system. When you pay for your session, your Medicare card will be swiped through the EFTPOS terminal, your claim details are instantly verified, and your rebate will be paid directly into your nominated account. If clients have a private health insurance fund they may claim rebates on the spot using a HICAPS machine.