Deirdre Page
Clinical Psychologist
Gisborne Chiropractic Clinic
71 Hamilton Street
Gisborne, Victoria, 3437
Treatment Approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is an action-oriented approach to psychotherapy that stems from traditional behavior therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy. Clients learn to stop avoiding, denying, and struggling with their inner emotions and, instead, accept that these deeper feelings are appropriate responses to certain situations that should not prevent them from moving forward in their lives. With this understanding, clients begin to accept their issues and hardships and commit to making necessary changes in their behavior, regardless of what is going on in their lives, and how they feel about it.
Brain-based Therapy
Brain-based therapy is an integrated approach utilising many of the strands of theory and research, from developmental psychology to attachment, temperament, memory, neuroscience, and to evidence-based practice. Brain-based therapy factors in the brain’s capacities of neuro-plasticity and neurogenesis, with psychotherapy, mind-fulness, nutritional neuroscience and social intelligence.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a psycho-social intervention that aims to improve mental health. CBT focuses on challenging and changing unhelpful cognitive distortions and behaviors, improving emotional regulation, and the development of personal coping strategies that target solving current problems.
Schema Therapy
"Schema Therapy is an innovative psychotherapy developed by Dr. Jeffrey Young for personality disorders and other so called “treatment resistent” psychological disorders. Schema Therapy is an integrative therapy which includes elements of cognitive, behavioural, gestalt and object relations therapy in one unified systematic approach to treatment.
An Early Maladaptive Schema is defined as a stable and enduring theme which develops during childhood and/or adolescence and are elaborated throughout ones lifetime. Schemas are deep unconditional beliefs about oneself, one’s relationship to others and one’s relationship to the wider environment; it is the unconditional nature of these beliefs that distinguishes them from ordinary cognitive distortions found in traditional Cognitive Therapy.
The main types of clinical interventions used in Schema Therapy are divided into four groups: Interpersonal, Cognitive, Emotion Focused and Behavioural. Schema Therapy is a moderate to long-term therapy." (Schema Therapy Australia)