SERVICES
Our expertise lies in
Anxiety
Anxiety is a normal survival response, but when excessive or long-lasting, it can become a disorder affecting daily life. Around 25% of Australians experience an anxiety disorder.
Depression & Mood
Persistent sadness lasting over two weeks, along with low energy and loss of interest, may signal depression. It affects 1 in 4 people and can co-occur with manic episodes in bipolar disorder.
Trauma & PTSD
PTSD develops after trauma, causing flashbacks, avoidance, and hypervigilance for at least a month. It affects about 10% of people and often overlaps with depression or anxiety.
Work & Life Stress
Stress is normal but can become overwhelming due to work, relationships, or life changes. It may lead to mood swings, sleep issues, or emotional distress.
Benefits
What are the benefits of Psychology?
Improve Emotional Wellbeing
Working with a psychologist in Sydney can help you better understand and manage your emotions. Whether you’re experiencing anxiety, depression, or general stress, therapy supports long-term emotional balance and resilience.
Manage Anxiety and Stress
Clinical psychologists in Sydney offer proven strategies to reduce chronic stress and anxiety. With personalised support, you can learn practical tools to feel more in control and less overwhelmed in everyday life.
Recover from Trauma and PTSD
PTSD treatment in Sydney is designed to help you process traumatic events safely and effectively. Therapy can reduce flashbacks, emotional distress, and help you reclaim a sense of calm and safety.
Build Healthier Relationships
Seeing a Sydney psychologist can improve how you relate to others—whether in romantic, family, or work settings. Therapy helps you set boundaries, communicate better, and resolve conflict constructively.
Boost Self-Esteem and Confidence
Low self-worth can affect every part of life. Through counselling, you’ll gain insights into your inner critic, build self-acceptance, and develop a stronger, more confident mindset.
Navigate Life Transitions
Whether you’re facing career changes, grief, or relocation, psychology services in Sydney, therapists provide guidance and clarity during major life transitions.
Treatment
Based in Sydney’s CBD, we specialise in providing treatment for anxiety, depression and mood problems, trauma and PTSD, and work and life stress. We have expertise in helping people build skills in a personalised way to enhance their coping ability. We typically use cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to help people as it is one of the most effective approaches to better handle anxiety, depression, traumatic stress and other life and emotional concerns.
This is a practical approach that teaches skills to handle the negative thoughts, situations and behaviour that unintentionally maintain emotional difficulties. We often compliment this with mindfulness-based and self-care approaches. Combining medication with CBT can also be helpful at times. We encourage people to speak to their GP or other doctor about whether medication is suitable, what to expect when using medication and how best to use it.
We are available to meet with people in our Sydney office. We are also available to meet by phone and video so we are also able to help people elsewhere in Australia and internationally. We aim to understand your specific concerns, needs and goals, then work collaboratively with you to teach you practical skills supported by science to help improve how you feel. If you are looking to learn helpful practical skills to improve how you feel, provided in an empathic warm environment, we would welcome working with you. Please be in touch.
Book Appointment
Our practice offers appointments on Mondays to Thursdays. Reception is available Monday to Friday. We offer some appointments outside usual business hours in order to be as accessible as possible.
Who We Are
Meet Dr Adrian Allen
Principal Clinical Psychologist
Adrian has extensive experience supporting people with treatment for difficulties with anxiety, mood and other emotional and life concerns. His research into anxiety is published in international peer-reviewed scientific journals.
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