Adults

At Healing Minds, Lisa Zilko will meet with you to gain information on the
presenting issues, background information on your general health,
social and family relationships, and events in your life.
This forms part of the initial assessment phase,
Standardised psychological assessments are also utilized.
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If you are on a Mental Health Care Plan reffered from your General Practitionar,
then ongoing feedback is required at 6, 10 and 20 sessions per year.

Individual therapy utilizes evidence based knowledge to
healing and recovery including:

• CBT (Cognitive Behaviour Therapy)
• EMDR (Eye Movement Desensssitation and Reprocessing)
• Schema Therapy
• Family Therapy
• DBT (Dialectical Behaviour Therapy)

Children & Adolescents

For a child or adolecent to be seen, background information needs
to be obtained from the parent or primary caregiver.
Infomation about the childs physical, social and emotional development will need to be given by a parent.
Information about the family history and child's experiences in the past
and present will also be obtained.

​ Initially, intervention will focus on the child's safety both physically and
psychologically first prior to direct intervention on the presenting issues
indicated by the caregivers.

Standardised psychological assessments will be utilised to understand where your
child is in relation to his or her peers on their developmental trajectory.

Feedback on the initial assessment and information gained will be given along with a plan for
intervention and treatment. This will include psycho-education
about the presenting issues and the treatment provided.

Evidence based therapy approaches are:

• CBT (Cognitive Behaviour Therapy)
• EMDR (Eye Movement Desensssitation and Reprocessing)
• Behavior Therapy
• Narrative Therapy
• DBT (Dialectical Behaviour Therapy)
• Family Therapy