Vicki's Clinic
I provide contemporary Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy to Individuals, Couples and Families, including Family Based Treatments of Adolescent Eating Disorders and Depression and Focussed Psychological Strategies.
Psychotherapy has as its basic objective personality growth, consequent on the alleviation of internal conflicts and/or the modification of internal structures, through constructive relational experiences with the therapist. Psychotherapy stems from psychoanalytic theories of human behaviour and mental life, regarding the individual as an ever changing dynamic system, and assumes that many emotional and cognitive functions and experiences take place in the unconscious. Here is a link to a podcast about psychoanalytic psychotherapy: https://radio.abc.net.au/programitem/pe9QygrgaD?play=true
I have experience with adults, families and young people in treating eating disorders, anxiety, depression, obsessions and compulsions, behavioural difficulties, relationship troubles and trauma. Parents often need help to think carefully and psychologically about how to help a troubled child and are important, as they can support the therapy outside of the therapy sessions.
I have undertaken further training in Australia and the US, in the Family Based Treatment (Maudsley Method) of adolescent eating disorders, and am a Certified Provider of the Maudsley Method Family Based Treatment for the treatment of eating disorders in adolescents. I also work individually with adults with an eating disorder. An article on therapy treatments is here: evamusby.co.uk/therapists-treatments-anorexia/
I have additional couples therapy experience arising from my training and Internship at Relationships Australia, my externship with the International Centre for Excellence in Emotion Focused Therapy and Level 3 Gottman Method Couples Therapy. Couples I see have been in conflict, struggling to communicate, feeling distanced from each other or troubled by one partner's struggles with depression or gambling for example.
I work individually with individuals implementing a range of therapies from long-term Contemporary Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy; a specialist. depth-psychology, medium-term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, and the shorter-term, Dialectical Behavioural, Cognitive Behavioural, Interpersonal, Acceptance and Commitment, and Motivational Enhancement Therapies for example.
In all of my work you will find that I presuppose that the early stages of life are critical to the development of all later evolving structures and functions - particularly of the brain and mind - and can impact on current dilemmas and response to life events and trauma. I also believe that emotion is central to deeply understanding the human condition and experience, and that unconscious processes and phenomena lie at the core of the self, throughout the lifespan.
Advanced training:
Recent workshops I have completed are:
Multidisciplinary treatment, i.e. additional services, may be needed, particularly if you are in need of immediate or acute and active psychiatric care or hospitalisation where there is high risk of self-harm, suicide or medical compromise from starvation.
I am located at 15 High Street, Glen Iris Vic 3146 Mob: 0412 563 638 Fax: 03 9011 9656 E: vicki.odwyer@gmail.com
Psychotherapy has as its basic objective personality growth, consequent on the alleviation of internal conflicts and/or the modification of internal structures, through constructive relational experiences with the therapist. Psychotherapy stems from psychoanalytic theories of human behaviour and mental life, regarding the individual as an ever changing dynamic system, and assumes that many emotional and cognitive functions and experiences take place in the unconscious. Here is a link to a podcast about psychoanalytic psychotherapy: https://radio.abc.net.au/programitem/pe9QygrgaD?play=true
I have experience with adults, families and young people in treating eating disorders, anxiety, depression, obsessions and compulsions, behavioural difficulties, relationship troubles and trauma. Parents often need help to think carefully and psychologically about how to help a troubled child and are important, as they can support the therapy outside of the therapy sessions.
I have undertaken further training in Australia and the US, in the Family Based Treatment (Maudsley Method) of adolescent eating disorders, and am a Certified Provider of the Maudsley Method Family Based Treatment for the treatment of eating disorders in adolescents. I also work individually with adults with an eating disorder. An article on therapy treatments is here: evamusby.co.uk/therapists-treatments-anorexia/
I have additional couples therapy experience arising from my training and Internship at Relationships Australia, my externship with the International Centre for Excellence in Emotion Focused Therapy and Level 3 Gottman Method Couples Therapy. Couples I see have been in conflict, struggling to communicate, feeling distanced from each other or troubled by one partner's struggles with depression or gambling for example.
I work individually with individuals implementing a range of therapies from long-term Contemporary Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy; a specialist. depth-psychology, medium-term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, and the shorter-term, Dialectical Behavioural, Cognitive Behavioural, Interpersonal, Acceptance and Commitment, and Motivational Enhancement Therapies for example.
In all of my work you will find that I presuppose that the early stages of life are critical to the development of all later evolving structures and functions - particularly of the brain and mind - and can impact on current dilemmas and response to life events and trauma. I also believe that emotion is central to deeply understanding the human condition and experience, and that unconscious processes and phenomena lie at the core of the self, throughout the lifespan.
Advanced training:
- Ongoing professional development in the specialist field of contemporary Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with the Victorian Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists.
- Specialist supervision which I undertake twice weekly
- The Specialist Course in Couples Therapy and Internship at Relationships Australia, and Emotion Focused Couples Therapy, including an externship with the International Centre for Excellence in Emotion Focused Therapy (2012).
- Intensive training and supervision with the U.S. Institute for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders 2013 (and at Westmead Children's Hospital in Sydney 2005) in the practice of Family Based Treatment of Adolescent Eating Disorders.
- Level 3 training Gottman Method Couples Therapy.
Recent workshops I have completed are:
- Internal Family Systems Therapy with Bonnie Weiss and the Bouverie Centre
- Attachment Based Family Therapy of Adolescent Depression (with or without suicidality) with Dr Gary Diamond
- Introductory Course in Contemporary Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with the Victorian Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists
- New Developments in Motivational Interviewing with Dr William Miller
- Dialectical Behavioural Therapy with Marsha Linehan
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy with the Australian DBT Institute at the Epworth Hospital in Camberwell
- The Gottman Method of Couples Therapy Level 3 with Drs John Gottman and Julie Schwatrz Gottman
Multidisciplinary treatment, i.e. additional services, may be needed, particularly if you are in need of immediate or acute and active psychiatric care or hospitalisation where there is high risk of self-harm, suicide or medical compromise from starvation.
I am located at 15 High Street, Glen Iris Vic 3146 Mob: 0412 563 638 Fax: 03 9011 9656 E: vicki.odwyer@gmail.com
