Therapy
Therapy services
Targeted and longer-term therapy models available for different needs.
Presenting problems
Most people arrive with several of these at once. Including but not limited to:
- Anxiety, including worry, panic and health anxiety
- Mood problems (e.g. low mood, depression, bipolar mood disorder)
- Perfectionism and self-criticism
- Self-esteem and self-worth
- Conflict avoidance and difficulty being assertive
- Stress and burnout for professionals (lawyers, engineers etc)
- Behaviour pattern-breaking (e.g. habits or coping mechanisms that cause problems in other parts of life)
Approach
Formulation-driven therapy
- Assessment: I gather information about the problem area as well as overall information about the person. This includes outcome measures.
- Formulation: I make sense of the problems, and this guides treatment planning. It may include DSM-5 diagnoses, but does not have to.
- Therapy phase: block of goal-directed therapy sessions with review at sessions 6 and 10.
- End-of-block review: we discuss closing therapy, shifting towards longer-term goals, discharge or referral.
Longer-term therapy
Suitability includes personality growth, personality disorders, functional and somatic disorders, and chronic illness.
- Assessment and formulation occur over several sessions
- I prioritise depth of understanding of personality style and relationships
- Meeting consistently allows for personality patterns from real life to emerge in therapy
- I focus the work on creating opportunities to experience the self and other people in new ways
Fees and enquiries
$235 per 50-minute session.
I confirm fees before treatment begins. Clients pay directly, and I issue a receipt for reimbursement from extended health benefits.
For enquiries, please email me at dralicetobin@hushmail.com.
You can also book an initial phone call directly.
I usually answer emails within 72 hours.
What happens after an enquiry is set out under getting started.
This is not a crisis service. If you need urgent help, see in a crisis.