12 Church Street,
Grovedale, Geelong, 3216
Free two hour street parking is available nearby.
NEW CLIENTS WELCOME: Justine has recently increased her clinic days and has capacity for new referrals at this stage. Please contact Penny on 0419 687 853 to request a consultation or for more information.
Sometimes you need to talk to someone, someone who will listen, who can help... When you feel like you can't do it alone... you feel trapped... you worry all the time, and never seem to find answers... When the way you feel is affecting your sleep, your eating habits, your job, your relationships, your everyday life...
Reaching out to a psychologist takes courage. To find out about counselling options, and how to arrange an appointment, please phone reception on 0419 687 853 or email penny@thebop.com.au
BA Hons (Psychology); MA Clinical Psychology MAPS, FCCLP Clinical Psychologist
Professional affiliations
Australian Psychological Society (College of Clinical Psychologists)
Psychology Board of Australia (Clinical Psychologist)
Circle of Security Registered Parent Educator
Member The Perinatal Loss Centre
Justine is a Clinical Psychologist with over 15 years of experience working across a range of clinical setting and contexts. She works with adults, older adults, couples and families offering evidence-based treatment for depression, anxiety, PTSD, short and long-term trauma (including recovery from recent and childhood sexual abuse), adjustment disorders, personality disorders, substance abuse, poor emotional regulation, post-natal depression, divorce and bereavement.
After completing her MA Clinical Psychology degree at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, Justine worked as an Intern Clinical Psychologist at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in-patient and out-patient psychiatric wards. Following this, she spent a year at the Johannesburg General Hospital working in the child psychiatry unit before moving to Leeuwkop Mens Maximum Correctional Centre. From 2007, until her move to Australia in late 2017, she ran a busy private practice in Johannesburg working with a range of clients with multiple diagnoses, presenting problems and stressors. Justine now calls Geelong her new home, where she has been in private practice since January 2018.
On being a Clinical Psychologist, Justine says: “I feel privileged to be in this profession, to be allowed into people’s lives, to be challenged by and to grow from my patients, and to help people gain insight into their behaviours, find solutions to their problems, and to feel more confident and content in their lives”. The therapy process is different for each person, but Justine strives to offer each client a confidential, safe space to talk about different aspects of their lives, to share their thoughts and feelings without judgement, and to disclose secrets, emotions and experiences that may be difficult to talk about with the people in their lives. Ultimately to leave the therapeutic process feeling heard, and with a clearer sense of what they would like, and how they will achieve this.
Justine draws from a range of therapeutic modalities including CBT, Solutions Focused Therapy, psychodynamic psychotherapy (insight oriented) work, ACT, Systemic Therapy and Motivational Interviewing. She believes that a successful therapy is based on mutual respect, a working therapeutic alliance and an ability to match the client to an appropriate treatment modality which is personally meaningful for them.
Justine offers each client a confidential, safe space to talk about different aspects of themselves and the issue for which they have sought help.
Justine works with mothers, fathers, and same sex couples who are facing a range of perinatal challenges including: Preparation for the birth of a baby; adaptation/transition to parenthood; attachment difficulties; blended family dynamics within the perinatal context;
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12 Church Street
Grovedale, Geelong VIC 3216
Free two hour street parking is available nearby.
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