Connections Healthcare Centre


Connections Healthcare Centre

Practitioners at this location

Alicia

Psychologist

Alicia is a registered Psychologist with a warm, gentle and friendly nature. She is passionate about helping others work through the issues of day to day life, as well as challenging mental health problems. Alicia has worked with adolescents, adults and couples experience a wide-range of issues, including: anxiety, depression, relationship problems, self-esteem issues, trauma, faith and spiritual issues, and personality disorders. Alicia takes a non-judgmental approach to therapy and believes it can help enhance anyone’s life, no matter where they are at.
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Alison Watt

Counsellor

Alison provides a safe space for you to unpack the concerns you are experiencing and gain the life skills you need for the life you want to lead. With vast experience in working with adults, youth, children and families, Alison brings a respectful and compassionate perspective and enjoys helping her clients find healthy perceptions of themselves. Alison has extensive work and volunteer work experience with multicultural urban and rural communities, both locally and interstate. Paired with her Psychology Honours and qualifications in Psychology and Social Services, she is well-equipped in providing evidence-based practice. Married for 36 years, mother and grandmother, Alison is a versatile practitioner and a skilled listener and communicator. Alison is deeply respectful of the background and needs of her clients and protective of the environment they need to receive healing. (Associate member of the APS)
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Mr Paul Browne

Psychologist

Paul has 24 years of experience as a Psychologist. He has an authentic, gentle, patient, empathic, warm and calming nature that fosters a deepening sense of support, safety and engagement. He endeavor's to meet people where they are at while at the same time helping them explore and reconnect with the ‘heart’ of the deeper unresolved and often hidden core issues that impact and undermine all aspects of their wellbeing. He uses simple, down to earth language and examples that are very relatable in order to reduce the ‘mystery’ and complexity of unfamiliar conditions and concepts to enhance peoples understanding and build their willingness to open up further to confront and deal with the ‘root’ and underlying inward causes of their presenting issues rather than remaining solely focused on the outward symptoms. He has a unique ability to come alongside people in a respectful, nurturing and patient way in order to ‘walk with them’ at their pace in such a way that results in a greater depth and breadth of experiential exploration and understanding that contributes to positive change and healing that is more extensive, deeper and permanent. Paul has extensive experience in working with offenders and victims of Child Sexual Abuse, individually and in group settings. He has worked within a number of prisons, male and female, co-facilitating various short and long term group treatment programs. Years of invaluable personal and shared experiences have engrained within him a humility and appreciation for the diversity of experiences that influence and often unfortunately result in unique outcomes and difficulties with problematic issues such as anger, addictions (of all types), self harm, hopelessness, isolation, suicide, depression, anxiety, fear, trauma, self worth and love, faith and fatigue to name but a few. He comes with a quiet confidence knowing that if he could be helped and healed from his brokenness to become a better and more balanced person, then anyone can be helped. Paul is a Registered Psychologist and member of Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA). He has a Bachelor of Psychology from ECU and a Bachelor of Business, Agriculture from Curtin. He has spent three years at Bible College. He was brought up on a broad acre farm where he worked for many years developing his practical hands on approach to growing and fixing plants, livestock and machinery which he now continues in helping to grow and heal people.

Mrs Janine Luzi

Counsellor

Janine is warm, genuine and open, with a passionate and committed approach to facilitating hope and restoration in individual lives. She has an integrative approach, according to individual needs, while working collaboratively, navigating through life’s difficulties across diverse cultural backgrounds. She works in a range of areas including trauma, abuse, addiction, grief and loss, anxiety, depression, identity and relationships.

Mrs Kirsty Frame

Occupational Therapist

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Mrs Ruth Crawford

Counsellor

Ruth is a counsellor with over 12 years of experience working with young people, couples and families. She has worked in school and hospital settings, not-for-profit organizations and disability and mining sectors providing counselling and mental health support. Ruth has a genuine and relational approach as a person-centered counsellor. She is passionate about mental health and wellbeing and works from an integrative and eclectic approach, including Internal Family Systems, Narrative, Somatic and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to best meet the clients need. Her compassionate and sensitive manner creates an environment in which people from all backgrounds feel safe, helping to enable them to process and find meaning in painful experiences, discovering new possibilities and resources, and developing a greater understanding and awareness in one’s sense of self. She works from a trauma informed approach, providing counselling for young people, couples, and individuals in various areas, including grief and loss, trauma, relationship, identity, stress management, depression and anxiety. Ruth holds qualifications in family therapy, psychotherapy and a Master of Counselling. She is a registered counsellor with Australian Counselling Association (ACA) and Psychotherapy and Counselling Association of Australian (PACFA).
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