Vivian Jarrett

Clinic Director

Vivian is a registered psychologist and clinic director at Vision Psychology.

Vivian has provided counselling services within Mental Health Services and private practice for nearly a decade, and has special expertise in working with adults with clinical disorders such as trauma, bipolar and depression. Vivian's approach includes holistic non-labelling approaches that include the use of interpersonal psychotherapy, narrative therapy, cognitive - behavioural approaches and couples therapy. Vivian welcomes those with a strong faith or spiritual beliefs as part of counselling process.

Vivian has experience in treating a wide range of issues such as:

*postnatal, pregnancy and parenting stress,

*clinical depression

*anxiety and trauma

*sex therapy for individuals or couples

*trauma that has occurred recently or in the past

*bipolar and psychotic disorders

Medicare and Health Rebates may apply. If you require reduced rates please call our office to discuss with reception. Vivian encourages those that need bulk billing or reduced rates to book for a free emotional health consultation for recommendations and affordable treatment options.

Ainsley Salsbury

Principal Psychologist

Ainsley Salsbury is a registered psychologist who is passionate about working with clients to identify, explore and address the factors which are frustrating them in their attempts to achieve their work and life goals.

Ainsley comes from a Human Resources background. so she has an intimate and hands on knowledge of the workplace and organisational dynamics and how these interact with and affect psychological issues.

Ainsley is passionate about working with clients to help them make healthy and adaptive work and life decisions, particularly during times of change or transition.  The world and the workplace is ever changing and it can feel very overwhelming and exhausting trying just to ‘keep up’ let alone take some degree of control of your own decisions when the goal posts seem to keep moving.  Ainsley has undertaken specific thesis research in this field around Decision Making in Ever Changing and Dynamic environments and is able to transfer these principles practically.

Dr Amanda White

Dr Amanda White is an STAP accredited supervisor, and provides a range of therapeutic, assessment, and training services.

Amanda is a highly experienced clinician, and has worked successfully with a variety of conditions, including mood disorders such as depression and bipolar, anxiety, addiction, cognitive and somatoform disorders, eating disorders, and personality issues. Amanda also has experience fostering resilience with people who have intellectual and physical concerns.

Her therapeutic orientation is primarily grounded in Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) and Mindfulness based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT). Amanda  finds that by cultivating both wellness and strengths, we can experience powerful and lasting change in our lives.

Michelle Linmore

Psychologist

 is a registered psychologist with over 20 years of counselling experience. She loves to meet people and to hear about and understand their stories, and is keen to work with you to make the positive changes you want in your life.

Michelle is available to provide individual, couple or family counselling as well as group workshops and training as requested.  She is happy to provide telephone sessions as well as face to face work.  At the moment Michelle is particularly interested in relationship counselling, gay and lesbian counselling, pregnancy support, and infertility counselling, including issues around donor assisted conception.

In addition to being a counsellor, Michelle is an experienced group leader having run many seminars and therapeutic and educational groups including self esteem and assertiveness groups, happiness workshops, post-separation workshops for adults and children, and discussion groups for women attracted to other women and for people living with HIV/AIDS.  In addition she has run numerous training workshops for those in helping roles, covering themes such as active listening, responding to crisis, and boundary setting.

Michelle Barratt

Clinical Psychologist

Michelle Barratt’s private practice therapy is client-focused and implements interventions that are evidence-based; namely Cognitive-behaviour therapy (CBT) as well as solution-focused therapy, psychodynamic therapy, systemic and emotion-focused therapy (EFT) when working with couples and families and mindfulness.

Michelle utilises a variety of assessment tools in her sessions to establish a baseline for symptoms, and so that progress and outcomes may be reviewed regularly. Additionally Michelle encourages clients to complete therapy satisfaction surveys, to assist her in evaluating therapeutic alliance and the client’s perceived symptom alleviation.

Her areas of specialty include working with adolescents and young people, trauma counselling, depression, anxiety, family breakdown, and Christian counselling.

Matthew Ryan

Psychologist

 is a senior psychologist who has been supporting and assisting people to work through their personal and relational problems, for over 25 years. 

Matthew's areas of expertise include counselling for men, social anxiety, supervision and family therapy.

Kim Bowling

Psychologist

For the past twenty years, Kim Bowling has been a psychologist, working in private practice and community mental health care. Her interest areas include clinical health psychology, positive psychology and Christian integrated therapy.

Kim’s therapeutic approach includes Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy. She can also provide and self-hypnosis training as a part of the session.

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Paul Carver

Psychologist

Linda Thomson

Social Worker and Sex Therapist

Linda completing a degree in Human Services in 1998 and her Masters of Couselling in 2005.

Linda has always had a passion  for helping people to over come obstacles in their lives to enable them to reach their full potential.  She has worked with couples to enhance relationship intimacy, improve communication and managing family issues. In addition, Linda provides clinical supervision for therapists and social workers.

In therapy, Linda works with strategies such as mindfulness, schema therapy, family therapy, grief and loss, narrative therapy and motivational interviewing.

Meggy Delaunay

Child Psychologist

is a registered Psychologist specialising in the treatment of children, adolescents and young adults, and has several years’ experience in Solution Focused Brief Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Play Therapy and Psychoanalytic Therapy. She also has extensive training in Family Therapy.

Before joining Vision Psychology, Meggy worked in New Zealand and Reunion Island (a French island in the Indian Ocean). She is fluent in both French and English, and has worked with numerous clients from diverse cultural backgrounds.

Meggy’s fields of expertise include:

- Cognitive assessments for children experiencing difficulties at school, including written reports of findings and recommendations.  A cognitive assessment provides a clearer picture of the client’s thinking and reasoning abilities and can also be part of a more detailed assessment (query, dyslexia, dyscalculia and memory issues);

- Supporting young clients living with a chronic condition such as Type 1 Diabetes;

- Helping clients to better cope with anger, anxiety, grief and self-esteem issues;

- Helping clients to become self-motivated, and find solutions to their difficulties.

MIchele Hunter

Clinical Psychologist

As a Clinical Psychologist, Michele can work with clients on the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of psychological, general health and emotional  difficulties, including mental health issues. Clinical Psychology can be effective in treating Depression; Anxiety; Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder; Sleep Disorders; Adjustment To Injury; Relationship problems; Grief and loss; Chronic Stress; self harming behaviours; and serious mental illness.

Michele has experience in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and Mindfulness.  She is also an accredited clinical supervisor and has many years of experience providing clinical supervision to other psychologists.  Michele is passionate about understanding and relieving psychologically-based distress as well as promoting well-being and personal development.

Abra Garfield

Psychologist

is a registered psychologist with a passion for the outdoors and the human journey to find meaning and happiness.

Abra is an Approved Provider with the . With a background in sport and performance psychology, Abra is an experienced athlete himself and has represented Australia in international competition. Abra understands the pressures of balancing athletic performance and daily life and has found many benefits in Mindfulness-based therapy. He has developed community sport-based programs and provided direct counselling services.

Olivia Donaghy

Psychologist

 is a registered Psychologist experienced in working with children, young people and adults individually or as a family. Her practice framework encompasses a belief in human dignity and potential for change. She is motivated to assist people to achieve the goals that they set for themselves.

Olivia has expertise in both family and individual counselling. She tailors her approach to individual treatment needs, combining family therapy/systems approach, CBT, positive psychology, narrative and brief, solution focused interpersonal therapies.

Olivia is experienced in supporting individuals experiencing mood & anxiety problems e.g. low mood, depression, mood swings, low motivation or energy, irritability/anger, anxiety, excessive worry, panic symptoms, obsessions (OCD), body image worries, stress, grief, feeling overwhelmed and under resourced, bullying.

Michelle Chiang

Psychologist

Michelle Chiang is a registered psychologist who is passionate about working with teenagers and adolescents, as they go through the transition from childhood to adulthood.

Her therapeutic orientation is mostly Cognitive Behavioural approach with a blend of  Acceptance Commitment Therapy. Within this particular framework, Michelle recognises each individual’s unique personality, situation, and coping style. She then tailors her therapy to fit the individual in order to maximise the effectiveness of counselling. She utilises a range of therapeutic techniques with her clients including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy; Mindfulness; Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy; Interpersonal Therapy; Dialectic Behavioural Therapy; Schema Therapy; and Emotion Focused Therapy.

Some of the issues Michelle is able to provide support and guidance for include counselling for teenagers and children; stress; eating disorders; self esteem and self image; conflict and anger; career and/or life dissatisfaction; relationship issues; social anxiety; and life coaching.

Michelle is able to provide counselling in English and Mandarin.

Cherie Rosewall

Psychologist

Cherie Rosewall is a Christian Maori woman, who shares a specific cultural interest and respect to providing high quality psychology services to people from all walks of life.

Cherie was  recognised for her ability to connect with the Pacific Island Community by the Minister of Child Safety in 2006, when she was presented with Queensland’s  “Recognition of Excellence Award:  for Engaging Communities”.

Cherie's particular areas of interest include grief and loss counselling, couples counselling, parenting support, counselling for seniors, and Christian counselling.

Joey Tai

Psychologist

Joey Tai is a registered psychologist who is currently in the process of obtaining his clinical endorsement.

Joey specialises in working with individuals or couples who have relationship/marriage problems, and encourages his clients to explore and address some of the inner conflicts within themselves which may have contributed to their accompanying relational difficulties.

In addition, Joey is a youth pastor and is experienced in working with children and young people. As Joey is a Christian, he is also happy to provide therapy to Christians from a biblical perspective. If you are more comfortable with sharing your difficulties with a Christian psychologist and working according to the principles of God’s grace, Joey is able to provide such services.

Julie Fickel

Midwife Counsellor

is a Midwife with a passion for supporting women and their partners, especially around issues relating to pregnancy and birth.

Julie has extensive experience in counselling couples in pregnancy, parenting and partnering. She has a special interest in perinatal women’s issues with additional training at Griffith University to provide counselling for pregnancy, parenting support, perinatal mental health (depression and anxiety), and birth trauma.

In addition, Julie has undergone additional training in sex therapy to support women to discuss intimacy issues, particularly pregnancy concerns and after the birth of baby.

Julie has a Certificate 4 in Pastoral Care and is happy to provide faith based counselling when required.

Dr Yirui Wang

Clinical Psychologist

is an endorsed Clinical Psychologist with extensive training and experience in conducting psychological assessment and delivering evidence-based psychotherapies to children, adolescents, adults, and older adults.

In addition, she has had training in clinical neuropsychology and has an interest in cognitive assessment (e.g., intellectual functioning, memory, attention, and learning disorders).

Yirui has experience in delivering a range of psychological interventions tailored to individual needs, e.g., Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), Schema Therapy, and Play Based Therapy (children only). She can help clients of all ages, with (but not limited to): Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Trauma, Interpersonal difficulties, Relationship difficulties, Behaviour Problems and Conduct Disorders, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, and Parenting issues.

A fluent speaker of English and Mandarin, Yirui is happy to conduct counselling sessions in either of these languages.

Dr Laura Hamilton

Psychiatrist

Dr Laura Hamilton is a psychiatrist with advanced training in both Child and Adolescent and Consultation Liaison Psychiatry.  She has experience with psychotherapy, including individual, couples, family, and play therapy, and as a qualified medical doctor she can prescribe medication. However, she recognises that medication is just one treatment option, and that often other treatments such as “talking therapies” are as good or even better than medicine.

Dr Hamilton welcomes referrals from adults, but her particular interest areas include Perinatal Mental Health and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

A referral from a GP is required in order to book an appointment with Dr Hamilton.

Dr Simone Becker

Psychiatrist

Dr Simone Becker has a special interest in Trauma (acute or chronic); Personality Disorders; and Bipolar Disorder; however she will gladly see any adults experiencing mental health problems.

Dr Becker uses a combination of medication and psychological interventions to promote good mental health. She is trained in the use of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to further this goal. Patient preferences are always taken into account in formulating a management plan.

You will need a referral from a GP to book an appointment with Dr Simone Becker.