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Ms Kirstin Bouse
Clinical Psychologist
Perth Psychology Collective
Bedford, Perth WA 6052
In Person + Telehealth
Philosophy & Vision
Kirstin's approach is based upon the belief that growth and change occurs through self-awareness, self-acceptance, self-responsibility and the healing of past traumas.
As such, Kirstin provides confidential counselling and psychotherapy whereby you examine your current difficulties and patterns of behaviour as well as heal the painful experiences that are affecting your life now.
Background
Kirstin has been a therapist for 17 years. Her career has enabled her to develop knowledge and skills with a wide variety of client groups and difficulties. Kirstin's areas of interest and experience include helping people; overcome their experiences of trauma and address their sexual and/or violent behaviour, who are experiencing family breakdown and who are experiencing difficulties in their relationships with their children (infants+).
Services
Kirstin provides counselling & psychotherapy for teenagers & adults and for individuals, couples and parents and their children. She provides both counselling and psychotherapy, depending upon your wishes and needs.
Counselling is a focused, shorter term and solution-oriented process whereas psychotherapy is usually a longer-term process and allows for the deeper exploration of the origins of the difficulty, patterns of behaviour, core beliefs and relational style.
Quality Provision
Kirstin is a fully registered Clincal and Forensic Psychologist, with the Psychologist's Board of Australian and holds full membership with the Australian Psychological Society (APS). She is a big believer in the importance of continual professional development and as such, engages in both formal training and peer consultative processes.
Areas of Special Interest
Accreditations
- BSc (Psychology) - 1995
- PostGrad Dip (Psychology) - 1996
- MPsych - 2000
Modalities
ACT - CBT - EMDR - Gestalt - Interpersonal - Mindfulness - Narrative Therapy - Person Centred - Psychodynamic - Schema Therapy
Therapy Approach
In addition to specialist psychological qualifications, Kirstin constantly engages in further professional training & personal development. She possesses a wide range of therapeutic tools to assist her clients.
However regardless of these tools, Kirstin works from the belief that people who are self-aware and willing to take responsibility for their lives can make meaningful changes. As such, a primary focus is to assist clients understand themselves, their internal world and how they relate to others, with greater clarity.
Professional Associations
- Australian Psychological Society
- Australian and New Zealand Association for Psychiatry, Psychology and Law