Vicki's Clinic
I provide contemporary Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy to Individuals, Couples and Families as well as providing Focussed Psychological Strategies and Family Based Treatments of Adolescent Eating Disorders and Depression. Psychotherapy
has as its basic objective personality growth consequent on the alleviation of unconscious conflicts and/or the modification of internal structures through constructive relational experiences with the therapist.
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.
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 branch of psychology, a depth-psychology, medium-term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, and the shorter-term, Dialectical Behavioural, Cognitive Behavioural, Interpersonal, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Motivational Enhancement Therapies for example.
Psychotherapy: stems from and takes place within the board conceptual framework of psychoanalytic psychotherapy theory of human behaviour and mental life; regards the individual as an ever changing dynamic system in which each part or aspect relates to, affects and is affected by all the others; assumes that many emotional and cognitive functions and experiences take place in the unconscious; assumes that the process which governs admission to and exclusion from conscious awareness can be modified by insight or self-understanding; assumes that therapy takes place within a relationship which involves commitment and responsibility from both therapist and patient; recognises and utilises the development of transference as an important vehicle for the achievement o insight and therapeutic change; regards counter-transference as an inevitable component of the therapeutic relationship which can be modified and productively utilised, and the expression of which can be controlled only by virtue of the therapist's own self-understanding; and undertakes, within the theoretical framework provided, constantly to assess the therapeutic progress of each patient and to evaluate and refine the techniques employed as well as the theory itself.
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:
The clinic may not be suitable for people:
AI am located at 89 Whitehorse Road, Balwyn 3103 Mob: 0412 563 638 Fax: 0390119656 E: vicki.odwyer@gmail.com
has as its basic objective personality growth consequent on the alleviation of unconscious conflicts and/or the modification of internal structures through constructive relational experiences with the therapist.
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.
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 branch of psychology, a depth-psychology, medium-term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, and the shorter-term, Dialectical Behavioural, Cognitive Behavioural, Interpersonal, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Motivational Enhancement Therapies for example.
Psychotherapy: stems from and takes place within the board conceptual framework of psychoanalytic psychotherapy theory of human behaviour and mental life; regards the individual as an ever changing dynamic system in which each part or aspect relates to, affects and is affected by all the others; assumes that many emotional and cognitive functions and experiences take place in the unconscious; assumes that the process which governs admission to and exclusion from conscious awareness can be modified by insight or self-understanding; assumes that therapy takes place within a relationship which involves commitment and responsibility from both therapist and patient; recognises and utilises the development of transference as an important vehicle for the achievement o insight and therapeutic change; regards counter-transference as an inevitable component of the therapeutic relationship which can be modified and productively utilised, and the expression of which can be controlled only by virtue of the therapist's own self-understanding; and undertakes, within the theoretical framework provided, constantly to assess the therapeutic progress of each patient and to evaluate and refine the techniques employed as well as the theory itself.
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 comtemporary 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:
- 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
The clinic may not be suitable for people:
- dealing with active drug and alcohol abuse or gambling problems
- needing immediate or acute and active psychiatric care or hospitalisation where there is high risk of suicide or medical compromise from starvation
AI am located at 89 Whitehorse Road, Balwyn 3103 Mob: 0412 563 638 Fax: 0390119656 E: vicki.odwyer@gmail.com
