Types of Therapy

Every person is unique and comes to therapy for different reasons. Radiant Minds Psychology evaluates your own or your family’s specific situation to provide the most suitable type of therapy, taking into account your needs and preferences.

As an Educational and Developmental Psychologist, Radiant Minds takes the approach of looking at difficulties in the context of the milestones in life and human development. The types of psychological therapy offered include:

Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT)
Play therapy
Behaviour analysis and therapy
Mindfulness and relaxation-based therapy
Existential therapy

Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT)

CBT is a focused approach used to treat many emotional and behavioural issues. It helps individuals identify unhelpful thoughts and how these are linked to feelings and behaviour. The purpose is to learn new skills and habits that are more helpful and lead to positive life changes. CBT is used for concerns including anxiety, depression and stress.

Behaviour analysis and therapy

Behaviour therapy or behavioural psychology can be helpful in managing a wide range of issues, from managing emotions such as depression and stress/anxiety to parenting challenging behaviours. It can also be used to treat fussy/picky eating, psychosomatic symptoms or sleeping difficulties. Furthermore, behaviour therapy is useful when learning new skills like becoming more organised, adopting a healthier lifestyle, learning to be a more effective student or communicating more assertively. Specific behaviours are identified and actively modified by through various means. The behaviour, not the person, is identified as the problem and ample learning opportunities are provided to help the person change their behaviours.

Mindfulness and relaxation-based therapy

This helps the person to stay in the moment and rather than trying to change what is, it creates a space for the person to accept what is. This therapy may help a person cope better with stress, depression, anger or even chronic pain.

Existential therapy

Existential therapy. This is more a paradigm than a therapeutic technique. The goal is to help make sense of human existence and increase self-awareness and self-understanding. The focus is thus on the client, rather than the symptom. Therapy involves exploring the universal concepts of death, freedom and responsibility, isolation and meaninglessness.

Play therapy

While usually used for children from 3-10 years of age (although some toddlers, adolescents and even adults can benefit from this mode of therapy). Play therapy follows the child’s lead and offers a safe space and medium for the child to explore and communicate their thoughts and feelings.

Presenting concerns

Radiant Minds Psychology provides therapy for children, adolescents and adults for a variety of issues including:

ADHD (management of symptoms & skills training)
Anger Management
Anxiety (e.g., generalised anxiety, social anxiety, phobias, separation anxiety)
Assertiveness Training
Autism/ASD (management of symptoms & skills training)
Behavioural Issues
Bereavement or Grief and Loss (e.g., coping with parental separation/divorce, coping with death of loved one)
Bullying
Communication Skills
Coping with Learning Disabilities, Learning Difficulties, Giftedness, Twice Exceptional (2E)
Coping with Tests/Exams
Coping Skills – general life issues
Depression
Emotional
Regulation (e.g., Tantrums, Anger, Whining, Avoidance, Anxiety)
Family Relationship
Feeding Difficulties (children)
Friendship Skills
Internet Addition/Screen Addiction
Life Coaching
Life Transitions
Mood Disorders
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Parenting
Resilience
Selective Mutism
Self-Esteem and Self-Confidence
School Anxiety/School Refusal
Sibling Issues/Sibling Rivalry
Sleep Disorders or Insomnia
Social Skills Training
Spirituality
Stress
Toiletting Issues (e.g., Toilet Training, Enuresis, Encopresis)
Trauma Related Disorders
Understanding Emotions

Radiant Minds also offers the following types of group therapy:

Fussy/picky eaters for children aged 3 and up (using the SOS Approach to Feeding)
Parenting strategies (using the Triple P Positive Parenting program)
Relaxation groups (using Mindfulness techniques)

Please note that a minimum of 4 participants are required to run a group. To claim Medicare rebates, a minimum of 6 participants are required.