Services
SIRA / Worker Compensation / CTP injuries
SIRA-Funded Psychological Services
As a registered SIRA provider, clients are offers evidence-based psychological support to recover from workplace or motor vehicle accident injuries. Sessions focus on understanding each person’s unique presentation, the impact of the injury, and the supports required for safe and sustainable recovery. The approach is person-centred, collaborative, and grounded in current clinical best practice.
Assessment and Treatment Planning
The process includes undertaking a comprehensive assessment to understand your symptoms, strengths, and goals. This includes reviewing referral information, your injury history, and any workplace or accident-related factors influencing your wellbeing. A tailored treatment plan is then developed in consultation with you, ensuring transparency around recommended interventions, expected outcomes, and how these align with SIRA requirements.
Therapeutic Interventions
Treatment may include a combination of trauma-informed therapy, EMDR, cognitive-behavioural strategies, and supportive counselling. The focus is on reducing psychological distress, promoting functional recovery, and strengthening coping skills. Interventions are delivered in an affirming and respectful way, acknowledging diversity, lived experiences, and individual differences in how people process stress, trauma, and change.
Collaboration and Reporting
As required by SIRA, your communication is maintained with your GP, insurer, rehabilitation providers, and other treating professionals. Progress reports and updates are provided in a clear and objective manner to support your recovery pathway. You will always be included in decision-making, with your autonomy and wellbeing at the centre of the process.
Neurodivergent affirming therapy
Neurodiverse affirming therapy is recognising and celebrating the diversity of neurological experiences among individuals. It is asserting that neurological differences, such as autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and other neurodivergence, are natural variations of the human brain rather than defects or disorders that need to be fixed. The focus is on understanding and accepting individuals for who they are, embracing their unique strengths, challenges, and ways of processing information.
Therapy aims to create an inclusive and supportive environment that respects your individual neurodivergent identity, self-acceptance, resilience, and the development of coping strategies that align with your neurobiology.
This can range from working through what your neurodiversity means to you, redifining your strength and leaning into them, working through any difficult emotions such a anxiety or shame, working through specific difficulties such as rejection sensitivity dysphoria (RSD).
A range of modalities can be used, such EMDR, SSP or interpersonal therapy, depending on what you are comfortable with and what your goals are.
Psychological treatment and therapy
People seek psychological support and treatment for many different reasons, including feeling overwhelmed, experiencing persistent stress, navigating major life transitions, or wanting a better understanding of their thoughts and emotions. Effective treatment begins with creating a safe and respectful environment where individuals can talk openly about their experiences and concerns at their own pace.
Mental health difficulties often develop through a combination of personal history, environmental pressures, relationships, and coping patterns. Treatment typically starts with a thorough assessment to understand the factors contributing to a person’s distress. This helps build clarity around what is happening and guides the development of targeted therapeutic goals. Individuals are supported to explore their emotions, challenges, and strengths in a structured yet flexible way.
A range of evidence-based therapeutic approaches may be used depending on individual needs and goals. These may include EMDR, cognitive-behavioural strategies, trauma-informed approaches, and skills-focused interventions. Treatment plans are personalised and may focus on reducing symptoms of anxiety or depression, improving emotional regulation, addressing past experiences, managing workplace stress or burnout, or supporting overall wellbeing.
The overarching goal of psychological treatment is to promote meaningful, sustainable change. This may involve strengthening coping skills, improving daily functioning, building resilience, or developing healthier patterns of thinking and relating. Throughout the therapeutic process, individuals are supported to gain insight, develop practical tools, and move toward improvements in mental health and quality of life.
Modalities
- EMDR
- Flash
- Parts work
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- Cognitive restructuring
- Interpersonal therapy
- Relaxation strategies
How modalities are used together
Everyone has different experiences, self-identification, beliefs and treatment goals, which are valued and respected in the therapeutic relationship. In turn, the modality or combination of modalities used with you will be discussed and agreed, to ensure you have safety and agency in your journey of healing, recovery or discovery.
