09/07/2025
🌟 Spotlight on: Rachel Ballinger 🌟
With 20 years of experience across diverse clinical settings, Rachel tailors’ evidence-based strategies to meet you where you are. By fostering strong rapport and genuine connection, Rachel’s aim is to help clients navigate life’s difficulties with greater clarity, resilience, and confidence.
Rachel has worked with adults across the lifespan who are experiencing depression, anxiety, grief and loss, sleep issues, emotional dysregulation, difficulties with self-esteem, assertiveness, perfectionism, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, drug and alcohol problems, personality disorders, self-harm and suicidality, traumatic experiences and post-traumatic stress, Psychotic Disorders, women’s health including fertility issues, pregnancy loss, premenstrual dysphoria and menopause and more.
Rachel draws on a range of evidence-based therapies to support clients in creating meaningful, lasting change. She takes a collaborative and strengths-based approach, guided by each person’s goals, values, and pace. Her therapeutic toolkit includes Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), Motivational Interviewing, Positive Psychology approaches and Mindfulness-based practices
In Rachels spare time she loves to get out into nature, spend time with her dog, travel and watch movies.
For more information on Rachel, do not hesitate to reach out to our lovely reception team on (03) 9654 3557, or email us at contact@covapsychology.com
