Welcome to Wellbeing... Wellbeing@Macquarie is your CBD oasis from the stresses of modern day life, living, working and relationships. Centrally located for your convenience in the heritage British Medical Association Building our professional team of practitioners are here to help you to find solutions in a caring and understanding environment. Wellbeing@Macquarie is here for your wellbeing. Quality of Care... Our team of practitioners are among the best in Australia. Recognised authorities in their fields, and fully accredited with major professional bodies, you can be assured of the best assistance from the best professinals. At Wellbeing@Macquarie we don't just care, we are able to offer a quality assurance of the highest standards possible. Our Mission... To nurture and promote the wellbeing of all and to do this in a nurturing, caring environment, with professionalism. We strive for the best result in every circumstance. Excellence is our constant goal. Psychotherapy Psychotherapy is a process developed by Freud that helps a person to resolve their emotional problems, usually through self-awareness that is gained in the therapeautic relationship. It is a confidential process based on the inner world of the client. In a paced way it allows examination of struggles, their causes and  consequences, with the goal of resolution and self acceptance. See Paula Kruger Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Cognitive behavioural techniques (CBT) assist people to identify problems, formulate goals and develop psychological strategies to improve their lives. Dr Lydia Bennett facilitates this process and has found CBT to be a popular and powerful technique to bring about positive change in her patients. See Jim OConnor Relationship Counselling Couples learn new ways of communicating and relating. Thoughts, feelings, wants and not-wants are safely and yet assertively expressed leading to clearer understandings. Common goals and levels of commitment are examined. Problems due to different life experiences and families of origin are addressed and realistic outcomes are explored in a neutral, respectful, and empathic environment. See Paula Kruger Relationship Counselling If you or someone you know is having difficulty with a relationship; then relationship counselling will help. During the process of relationship counselling the key concerns are identified, any unhelpful relationship dynamics are examined; couples are taught effective communication, conflict resolution and the keys to enhancing their relationship; all within a safe and empathic environment. See Jim OConnor Trauma Counselling Traumatic events such as witnessing or being a direct victim of violent crime or horrific accidents can occur to individuals, groups, and businesses. An immediate response is a critical incident debreif that can deal with the emotional shock and identify particular problems and provide strategies that enable a swift recovery and reduce debilitating longer term effects and costs. See Paula Kruger Hypnotherapy & Self-hypnosis Hypnotherapy is the therapy performed in hypnosis. Clinical hypnotherapy combines counselling, psychotherapy and hypnosis together. Hypnosis is the state of deep concentration, when the conscious mind is switched off and the resources of subconscious mind can be reached, so your perceptions, thoughts, behaviour and emotions can be changed. Self-hypnosis is the most effective and empowering self help method. It allows you to access your subconscious resources by yourself and use them to achieve your goals. See Joanna Malinowska Workplace Counselling There are a wide range of issues that benefit from counselling and psychotherapy in the business and corporate world. Counselling is an effective strategy that addresses anger and aggression, effective communication, structural change (including retrenchment) and other loss of jobs, and critical incident debreifings following traumatic events such as armed robberies and industrial accidents. It can be win/win with staff better able to deal with the emotional toll including depression, confidence etc and business lowering  costs and increasing productivity. See Paula Kruger Clinical Psychology Therapy with a Clinical Psychologist involves the client and Psychologist working together to develop an understanding or ‘formulation’ about a particular problem. The Psychologist then draws on relevant evidence-based psychological theories and techniques to help the client make changes and reach goals identified together, within an empathic, reflective context. See Kirstie Missenden Family Therapy The focus is on bringing about change in the family realtionship. The presenting problem may be frustrations and pain resulting from how the children are acting out. Effective communication strategies, clear messages and boundaries are dealt with and evaluating  all relationships within the family, modeled behaviour are strategies that can lead to positive outcomes. See Paula Kruger Clinical Psychology Anxiety presents in wide range of anxiety related issues such as, social anxiety, generalized anxiety, panic attacks, and fear of public speaking, health anxiety, performance anxiety, specific phobias, sexual difficulties, grief, loss and excessive worry. Anxiety can arise at the most inconvenient times and sometimes apparently for no reason, however, most individuals suffering from anxiety participate in thinking errors such as; mind reading, fortune telling, overgeneralizing, catastrophic thinking, “should” and “must” statements and tend to be critical and negative. These maladaptive ways of thinking are not always rational and dwelling on these thoughts only increases your anxiety and interferes with your performance and quality of life. Depression can often accompany or be a result of prolonged anxiety therefore must also be addressed. Empirical research significantly supports Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as the most effective and efficient therapies to treat symptoms and disorders associated with anxiety and depression. See Dr Amanda Symboluk Stress Management Stress may appear to be inevitable in the modern world. Psychotherapy and counselling is able to re-examine life style choices and help put the struggles into perspective, and evaluate possible ways to realistically grow more able to deal with the demands of a demanding world. Stress may not be inevitable after all. See Paula Kruger Cognitive Analytic Therapy CAT is a relatively new therapeutic development originating in the UK and researched and widely used in the UK and the rest of Europe, now becoming available in Australia. As the name suggests, CAT draws on theories from Cognitive and Analytic schools of therapy, in order to provide a user-friendly, empathic, change-focussed approach, which has been found to be helpful in a broad range of problems. See Dr Kirstie Missenden CBT & Mindfulness Based Therapy Implementing Cognitive behavioural therapy &/or mindfulness guided therapy we can work through your challenges. We can take a logic reasoning focused approach &/or use research validated mindfulness/meditation based approaches. That is, to work though your individual &/or relationship issues. See Emil Hodzic Family Constellations Therapy Family Constellation work is a relatively new discipline, very popular in Europe. It is a phenomenological process, based on the philosophy of Love. Each person is an individual but also a product of an environment, family and other group systems. Understanding and acceptance creates “the movement of the soul” which heals the emotional issues, depression, low self-esteem, anger, anxiety and personal relationships' dynamics. See Joanna Malinowska Relationship & Family Therapy It may be considered that all individual and couples difficulties are essential relational, and therefore family therapy is appropriate and significant to treat various issues related to social anxiety, depression, intimacy, infidelity conflict resolution. Generally problems defined in both relationship and family therapies have evolved from our own family of origin and the family members’ style of communication, interaction, adaption and cohesion. Understanding our family patterns of interaction and belief systems can assist individual in understanding where problems may have originated and beliefs are maintained but most importantly find skills for resolution. In systemic therapy practice, therapy can include a wider range of professional and social networks around the family that play factors in contributing towards maladaptive ways of thinking and behaving See Amanda Symboluk Cancer Counselling Are you or someone you love diagnosed with cancer? Are you feeling helpless, fearful or anxious? Counselling can help manage the overwhelming emotions and stress that are caused by cancer. Talking to an experienced cancer counsellor can help make it less daunting. It can help you cope. I know that this is a very difficult time. If you would like some support, I’d like to help. See Russell Drinkwater Couples Counselling Are you feeling unhappy in your relationship? Are you arguing about the same issues and unable to reach a solution? Have you thought about separation or divorce? Research has discovered why marriages succeed or fail. Couples counselling can teach you to avoid the common pitfalls that destroy a relationship. Couples counselling can also strengthen your relationship and increase intimacy. It helps partners to get along better. See Russell Drinkwater Appointments Please contact us to inquire about consultation times and to book appointments. At Wellbeing@Macquarie we are committed to the highest levels of service and we pride ourselves on our friendly welcome to all. See Online Inquiry