The Emotions Clinic Australia

19/09/2024

We are so thrilled to welcome Lauren Davey to our lovely team of experienced Psychologists at the Emotions Clinic Australia!!

Lauren is a fully registered psychologist and loves supporting individuals and families. She has extensive experience in mental health, as well as in autism and intellectual disability. Lauren studied with Dr Belinda Ratcliffe as part of her Masters of Professional Psychology more than 5 years ago - it is always such a delight to have such wonderful former students join the team!

Lauren has availability for individual therapy - Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays!

Please feel free to contact us to make an appointment:

https://theemotionsclinic.com.au/contact-us/

14/05/2024

Last week we warmly welcomed our first international visitor Waanii Jasni to The Emotions Clinic Australia! Waanii is a PhD student, studying at Uni of Otago in Christchurch, New Zealand who has just finished a pilot study of WFP1 with Malaysian children via Telehealth and is about to start a larger trial!

Waanii was able to observe the fabulous Emily Parker and Tanushree Joshi facilitating the WFP2 group program at our Hurstville Clinic - such an inspiring afternoon and we wish Waanii every success in her research and impact!

16/04/2024

🤗At The Emotions Clinic Australia, we understand the importance of tailored support for children, adolescents and adults who are Autistic. That's why our team of clinical psychologists is dedicated to providing compassionate and effective mental health services specifically designed for this population.

We also provide neurodiversity affirming assessment and mental health care for individuals with ADHD, Learning Disorder, intellectual disability, Autism or Giftedness - as well as general child and adolescent clinical psychology services.

If you or someone you care for, could benefit from our expertise, don't hesitate to contact us – we're here to help!

12/04/2024

Such a warm welcome home to Laura Dunne - our wonderful long-term team member is back 🙌 and available for Adult Autism Assessments at our Hurstville Clinic (Thursdays!)

Link in comments below to contact us, if you are interested in an appointment :)

05/03/2024

😊TERM 2: SATURDAY Westmead Feelings Groups (WFP) for Autistic young people (8-13 years old) are now OPEN for registration 👏 - starting May 11th!!

One of our Saturday group leaders- Dr Anne Devlin (Clinical Psychologist), said "I’m so excited about running this. The WFP Saturday group in 2023 year was the highlight of my working life. Looking forward to more work joy in 2024!" 🥹

WFP is an evidence-based program that teaches neurodivergent young people to understand their own and others' feelings, communicate about feelings and learn life-long emotional problem solving and emotion regulation skills.

Our Clinic Director Dr Belinda Ratcliffe is a lead author of WFP - and in her PhD research evaluated the effectiveness of WFP in a treatment versus control group trial. WFP improves social-emotional skills and is based on evidence-based visual learning techniques including video modelling :)

We currently have 2 places available - please register early to avoid disappointment - WFP groups will next be offered again in 2025 (if you miss out for this round, please add your name to the waitlist)

https://theemotionsclinic.com.au/2023-groups/

Group programs for Autistic young people (primary school, adolescents and young adults) . Parenting programs for parents of Autistic children.

21/02/2024

After some fabulous holidays over summer 🌞- our wonderful 2024 Therapy Team are now all back in the Hurstville Clinic (and also online/telehealth where appropriate)! 🎈

Our Clinical/Psychologist Therapy Team ALL have a strong special interest in Autism, Intellectual Disability, ADHD, Giftedness and Child & Adolescent Mental Health (some of our team support adults and run group programs too!).

Clinical psychologist in autism, intellectual disability and mental health. Evidence-based assessment and treatment for children, adolescents and adults. Online training and courses, clinical supervision

15/01/2024

So thrilled to announce the 2024 Diagnostic Assessment team at The Emotions Clinic Australia - at our fabulous Hurstville Clinic!

With our increased capacity, we are now accepting referrals for:
✅Children (from age 6 years and up)
✅Teens/young people(aged 13 - 25 years)
❌Adults - waitlist is currently closed (may re-open April-May 2024)

Our Autism Diagnostic team, who all have significant clinical experience in supporting neurodivergent people have also all completed at least 2 years of training and clinical supervision in Assessment with Dr Belinda Ratcliffe. In addition, the diagnostic team have completed additional comprehensive/external training in the Gold Standard diagnostic instruments for autism.

💡Did you know that our comprehensive evidence-based approach to assessment is based on the '5-finger' clinical assessment model, developed by our Clinic Director Dr Belinda Ratcliffe. All Clinicians at The Emotions Clinic Australia receive ongoing training and individual/group supervision with Dr Ratcliffe, who is sought after across Australia to provide training in her gold standard, comprehensive clinical assessment approach, which typically considers neurodivergence (e.g. Autism, Intellectual Disability, ADHD, Learning Disorder and Giftedness) and mental -ill-health (e.g. anxiety, depression) as part of the one comprehensive assessment.

Please contact our friendly reception team for more information:
https://theemotionsclinic.com.au

15/01/2024

We are so thrilled to announce the addition of a new evidence-based anxiety group for 2024! - limited places now available!!

These groups are for Autistic young people who experience anxiety that significantly impacts their daily life at home and/or school, and will help to develop the following skills:
✅Recognising and understanding feelings - with a big focus on worry and anxiety
✅Evidence-based strategies to manage worry and anxiety
✅ Parenting strategies to help build skills in understand and supporting your child to manage their feelings

🤗This group takes a neurodiversity affirming approach - with a warm, individual strengths-based approach to building skills, improving functioning and facilitating the development of connection and friendship.

Delivered by a Clinical Psychologist and Educational & Developmental Psychologist, with a combined total of 30 years of experience, who are both accredited by Macquarie University in the delivery of the program

🗓️"Cool Kids" - for Autistic children (grades 2 to 6): Friday afternoons (starting term 1).

🗓️"Chilled" - for Autistic Teens (grades 7-10): Tuesday afternoons (starting term 1).

For more information, please visit our 2024 group page, and contact us for additional information - :
https://theemotionsclinic.com.au/2023-groups/

Group programs for Autistic young people (primary school, adolescents and young adults) . Parenting programs for parents of Autistic children.

15/01/2024

We are so excited that we have capacity to expand our Westmead Feelings Group Programs for 2024!!

WFP groups help Autistic Children (and their parents/carers & teachers) learn:
✅Skills to understand and communicate about their own emotions
✅Skills to understand and communicate with others about their emotions
✅Emotional problem-solving skills
✅Emotion regulation skills
✅Supportive and neurodiversity affirming environment with a focus on individual and group strength-based learning and connection.

🤗We love seeing so many children & families form meaningful connections and friendships throughout the group!

💡Did you know WFP is an award-winning evidence-based program. Our Clinic Director - Dr Belinda Ratcliffe is a lead author and conducted her PhD research on a large treatment vs control group trial of WFP. Dr Ratcliffe provides ongoing training and clinical supervision to Clinicians offering the 'gold standard' delivery of this intervention at our Clinic!

💗 Our Clinical Psychologist/Registrar WFP group leaders have all completed their WFP accreditation training with the Australian Council for Educational Research

Limited places available for the 2024 Westmead Feelings Program groups at our Hurstville Clinic:
⭐Monday afternoons (6-8 year olds) (Starting Term 1)
⭐Wednesday afternoon (8-12 year olds) (Starting Term 1)
⭐Saturday mornings 8-13 years (Starting Term 2)
**Parent/carer sessions are held online/via zoom and recorded to watch later if unable to attend live!
🔥NEW! WFP graduate groups (for children who have previously completed WFP are available on Saturday mornings from TERM 1 2024!)

For more information, please see our updated 2024 Group page, and contact us at:
https://theemotionsclinic.com.au/2023-groups/

Group programs for Autistic young people (primary school, adolescents and young adults) . Parenting programs for parents of Autistic children.

15/01/2024

Such a warm welcome back to 2024 to our beautiful team of Clinicians!