While working at WA Police as a civilian dispatcher/radio operator Andrew completed his Bachelor of Psychology and Master of Psychology before transitioning into full-time psychology work. Andrew’s psychology roles have included time with the WA Police Psychology Unit, uniformed service personnel and civilian therapy programs at a private psychiatric hospital, working in vocational rehabilitation, and therapy work with Open Arms (DVA’s Veteran’s & Families Counselling Service). Andrew currently splits his time working between Helios Psychology and as a psychologist with uniformed service personnel. Andrew has a strong focus on helping people develop resilience in their mental health, working with children from 10+ through to older adults, including couples therapy, including uniformed service personnel populations and their loved ones and associates. He has also worked with people facing chronic pain to help them manage their perceptions of pain, and the interaction between pain and mental health. Andrew utilises therapy approaches and techniques from schema therapy, CBT, tf-CBT, ACT, DBT, SFT, elements of CPT, and is EMDR trained. Andrew assists clients from a wide range of backgrounds, working with client referrals via GP mental health care plans, DVA, insurance and Workcover WA, NDIS, and private referrals. Andrew’s focus is on helping clients recover from mental health barriers including traumatic incidents and helping turn these barriers into an opportunity for growth. He is passionate about the role of family, friends, work, volunteering, and completing ‘simple’ activities of daily living in an individual’s recovery from mental health challenges, seeing benefits of engagement in all of life as being key aspects to support the physical, psychological, and social recovery of those facing mental health difficulties. Andrew recommends those facing challenges utilise all available resources, as the difficulty of ‘going it alone’ often may contribute to the challenges they are currently facing.

Psychologist

Kara is a patient, compassionate and understanding Psychologist with an aim to provide a safe space to enable therapeutic change. She is enthusiastic and dedicated to fostering positive relationships with her clients. Kara is committed to working collaboratively with you, and the type of therapy used in her sessions is always dependent on your presenting issues. Kara welcomes any feedback and encourages client involvement to shape the approach of the therapy and ensure you get what you want from your counselling sessions. You are likely to find Kara unassuming, kind and caring. Kara is comfortable working across all age groups, from children to adults and couples. She is available to support you to deal with a wide range of difficulties and concerns, including depression, anxiety, childhood trauma, relationships and workplace difficulties. Her main therapeutic approaches are Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, EMDR, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Schema Therapy and Mindfulness.