Philosophy & Vision
I practice in accordance with the particularities given through speech and free association. With an interest in providing a listening to the individual suffering of each individual. I hold a particular interest in giving space to the treatment of psychotic experience and assisting in a direction of treatment that is toward living a fuller life conferring with ones desires.
Background
I am a practitioner of Lacanian Psychoanalysis receiving training through the Freudian School of Melbourne, School of Lacanian Psychoanalysis where I am a member.
I am a Credentialed Mental Health Nurse (CMHN) by discipline with many years of experience working in public settings such as adult and adolescent psychiatric inpatient units, emergency/crisis services, community rehabilitation facilities, and community outpatient clinics.
Services
I offer talking therapy formed around the needs and desires of clients, determined case by case. This involves a selection or combination of, assessment/care planning, supportive counselling, targeted psychotherapy, analysis, family therapy, psycho-eduction and coordinated psychotherapeutic interventions for those with a lived experience of psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia.
I can provide secondary consultation, group supervision, and care coordination for complex cases, particularly receiving NDIS support.
I also provide clinical supervision for mental health professionals.
Quality Provision
My practice is in accordance with the ethical conduct of the Lacanian orientation and code of conduct's relevant to the guidelines stipulated by AHPRA and the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses.
Areas of Special Interest
Accreditations
- Bachelor of Nursing - 2014 - La Trobe University
- Grad Dip. Mental Health Nursing - 2015 - RMIT
Modalities
Dialogical Practice - Psychoanalytic - Trauma-Informed
Therapy Approach
My experience as a clinician finds interest in the revelatory power of dialogical practice, driven by the subjective possibilities that emerge within transferential relations - particularly within the analytic rapport. I have existing research interests regarding the collision between psychoanalysis and psychiatry in the possible treatment of psychosis and complex personality disorder (in particular anti-social presentations). This interest has been cultivated in works presented within the Freudian School of Melbourne and to public mental health in-services.
Professional Associations
- Australian College of Mental Health Nurses