Diagnostic Assessment and Management of:

• Mood disorders (depressive disorders and Bipolar affective disorder)

• Anxiety Disorder

• Eating Disorders

• Psychotic Spectrum Disorders

• Trauma-Related Disorders

• Impulse- Control Disorders ( OCD, Tics, Tourette’s)

• Neuropsychiatric Disorders relating to:

  • Epilepsy

  • Parkinson’s Disease and Other Movement Disorders

  • Autoimmune Conditions

  • Cognitive Impairment and Dementias

  • Functional Neurological disorders

• Clients where complex and chronic illness informs psychiatic symptoms.

Dr Tamara is currently not performing isolated diagnostic assessments for ADHD. The assessment of neurodiversity can be made within a broader context of care.

Please note Dr Tamara does not write reports or complete assessments for third parties such an employers, insurance companies or courts.

Psychotherapy

What is Psychodynamic Psychotherapy?

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy is a long-term in-depth talk therapy that aims to uncover unconcious thinking and relational processes informed by early life experiences and unresolved conflicts. The idea is that these processes shape, inform and play out in the contemporary difficulties of ones life, underscoring how one relates to themselves and others.

The outcomes of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy aims not only for symptom remission ( less anxiety, less depression) but also:

• To build greater internal capacities to tolerate and recognise a wider ranger of emotions and feelings within oneself and others.

• Develop a healthier more reality-based sense of self.

• To more effectively use one’s strengths and abilities.

• Have more fulfilling relationships.

• Have a greater freedom and flexibility to face life’s challenges.

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy is offered on a weekly or fortnightly basis.

Engaging in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy is a separate undertaking to general or neurospsychiatric assessment and care, but is not necessarily mutually exclusive.