About
We provide scientifically supported approaches in an empathic, supportive environment.
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Our Approach
We specialise in delivering evidence-based clinical psychological services. This means we primarily use interventions that have been shown as helpful in scientific research. We work with people to understand what has prompted their concerns, what maintains them and importantly, we teach people the skills they need to overcome them.
Our first line approach is typically cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) as this has strong research support for helping people with common emotional concerns. Depending on what people choose to work on, we may complement this with mindfulness and acceptance-based approaches (for example acceptance and commitment therapy; ACT), schema therapy or dialectical behavioural therapy (DBT).
Clinicians
DR ADRIAN ALLEN, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST SYDNEY
Our Principal Clinical Psychologist is Dr Adrian Allen. He holds a PhD and Master of Clinical Psychology from the University of New South Wales. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) degree with First Class Honours from Macquarie University.
Adrian holds an endorsement from the Psychology Board of Australia to practice as a clinical psychologist. He is also a Board-approved clinical supervisor to higher degree clinical trainees. His treatment approach focuses on using cognitive behavioural techniques to help clients manage difficulties with trauma, anxiety, depression, stress, grief and health-related concerns. He complements this with mindfulness and acceptance-based approaches. He has experience working with a variety of conditions including posttraumatic stress disorder, body image concerns, panic disorder, agoraphobia, specific phobia (e.g. needle/injection phobia, spider phobia, claustrophobia), social anxiety and shyness, generalised anxiety and worry, obsessive-compulsive disorder, health anxiety, depression, sleep difficulties and insomnia, and psychosis. He spent several years working at the Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety and Depression at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney. He has worked at the Kiloh Centre at the Prince of Wales Hospital and the Anxiety Treatment and Research Unit at Westmead Hospital.
STUDIES
Resources
Recent media articles featuring Adrian:
- The importance of workplace safety plans in family law, Lawyers Weekly, 20 July 2023
- The exhaustion of pandemic-era decision making, Well Being Wild, 3 February 2023
- Fatigue, burnout: Why are we all so tired?, The Australian, 25 October 2022
- Alone but not lonely: the solo activities that help foster connection, Guardian Australia, 13 August 2022
- ‘I was angry at everyone, and at life. I didn’t recognise myself any more’, Sydney Morning Herald, 6 August 2022
- Filled with regret? How to accept your past and move forward, House of Wellness, 19 April 2022
- There’s only so many times you can scroll on your phone’: Searching for lockdown hobbies, Sydney Morning Herald, 15 August 2021