Psychotherapy
Jay provides psychotherapy for a range of mental health conditions.
Jay’s areas of special interest include:
Trauma presentations including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD)
Dissociative disorders
Personality disorders
Neurodivergence (e.g., autism spectrum/ASD, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder/ADHD)
Comorbid presentations (i.e., multiple mental health diagnoses)
other complex presentations
Jay also provides therapy for:
Anxiety disorders
Depression
Bipolar disorders
Psychotic disorders
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Most other clinical presentations
Jay’s approach to therapy
Jay is an integrative practitioner who draws on multiple evidence-based therapy approaches and tailors these to each person’s unique clinical needs. He understands that everybody’s situation is unique and complex and avoids providing “cookie cutter” solutions to each person’s mental health challenges. He fully engages with the complexity of each client’s situation – developing a deep and collaborative understanding of their mental health difficulties, their origins, and how these are maintained and perpetuated. He removes the jargon and “psych-speak” from sessions in order to have real discussions with clients which are simple, relatable, and easy to understand.
Styles of therapy Jay draws upon include:
Therapy focused on identifying and changing unhelpful patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving
Therapy focused on improving interpersonal functioning and resolving difficulties in relationships with others.
Therapy focused on developing greater psychological flexibility by mindfully accepting the distress that life inevitably brings whilst committing to taking valued actions which improve your life.
Therapy focused on recognising and reducing self-criticism and setting unreasonably high standards for yourself, whilst enhancing a compassionate orientation towards yourself.
Trauma-focused experiential therapy utilising rapid eye movements or other bi-lateral (both sides of the body) stimulation as a means of processing traumatic memories.
Therapy focused on developing harmony and co-operation between “parts” of the mind (or motivational urges) that may be in conflict or competition with one another.
Therapy focused on developing motivation, and reducing resistance to change.
Therapy focused on dialectics – replacing black and white thinking (right/wrong, pain/comfort, love/hate, trapped/free) and rigid behavioural patterns with integrative (“both and”) reasoning and more flexible behavioural responses.
Therapy focused on exploring and reducing the impact of core beliefs and patterns of behaviour that may have been useful earlier in life – but are leading to detrimental effects now.
Therapy focused on highlighting the narratives we tell about ourselves and “re-authoring” these stories to be more positive and affirming.
Therapy focused on uncovering the origins of (and developing insight into) your current beliefs, behaviours, coping mechanisms, and feelings.
Therapy focused on developing an awareness of the body and utilising the body, in its relationship with the mind to address mental health difficulties, inner tensions, and trauma.
Jay integrates these styles of psychotherapy with his clients grounded
in a shared understanding of their mental health difficulties.
5/70 Dilkera Ave
Valentine NSW 2280
info@jayrichardspsychology.com.au
Monday: 8am – 4:30pm
Tuesday: 8am – 4:30pm
Wednesday: 9am – 5:30pm
Thursday: 9am – 5.30pm
Friday: 9am – 5.30pm
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We extend that respect to all Elders past, present, and future.
