Quatro Wellbeing - Couples & Relationships- Individuals- EMDR- Relational Psychotherapy (She/Her)

Christine offers psychodynamic short and long term psychotherapy and counselling for individuals, couples, and group work on a variety of life issues. She has a strong interest in working with couples and is an Approved Gottman therapist and EMDR practitioner. She integrates neuroscience into her approach to help you understand how the emerging fields of brain science impacts our emotional regulation and wellbeing. Christine has trained as a relational psychoanalytic psychotherapist. This means she works to facilitate awareness of deep help beliefs and patterns and to build with the patient a new way of framing their experiences and their responses. a different understanding. The intention being to build a greater strength and resilience in dealing with life and gaining freedom from patterns that are no longer serving the individual. Christine’s work is informed by a variety of contemporary psychological models of therapy. Most notable of these being the Conversational Model. Attachment Theory , Internal Family Systems the Gottman Method for working with couples, Trauma interventions including EMDR and dynamic psychotherapy. Christine is a clinical member of the Australian & New Zealand Association of Psychotherapy (ANZAP), the International Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (IARPP) and the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA). She is registered with the Australian Health Practitioners Registration Board (AHPRA). She is a Nationally Accredited Mediator (NMAS). Gottman Relationship Practioner and EMDR Therapist. Dealing with change in relationships can be navigated more successfully with better awareness and understanding of what is happening for the other and the couple. Relationship counselling can be beneficial to couples who are looking to strengthen their emotional connection, in all stages of their relationship. At times its helpful to work with couples who are divorcing or separating. The objective in these situations is to facilitate a separation that allows for healing and individual emotional repair. Relational trauma is very real and often unrecognised. Working in session to understand what and how impacts are reflected for individuals and couples is highly beneficial to the development of the self and assists with building higher levels of psychological resilience. Working together in session on how past experiences and learned behaviour come together to influence present-day thinking and the effect that has on future life goals and expectations is important to moving ahead with a better life experience. Whatever approach is best suited for the patient is framed around specific needs and a treatment plan is built in collaboration with the individual or couple. The hope is that the work in therapy will assist in relieving emotional pain and assist in integrating parts of psychological life and that this psychological resilience can be demonstrated in improved self-care, life choices and relationships.