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"What went wrong, must go right,"

- David Malan, on successful therapy.

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We are an ethically run practice, which means we put the consistency, and security of the therapist-client relationship at the heart of the way we have designed our practice and policies.

As it says on the first line of our website – “what goes wrong, must go right,” or another way of saying this is: “what was damaged in relationship must be healed in relationship”.

Research tells us that the real healing or change agent in therapy is the relationship between client and therapist, regardless of the type of therapy. This wisdom on therapy as a relationship for change is embedded into every part of PsychologyCare’s practice and policies.

 

A healing relationship is a consistent relationship!

 

PsychologyCare is different to many other psychology practices in that we emphasize this consistency by guaranteeing your regular appointment time. Other practices tend not to do this.

The common experience of clients is that they can rarely be seen weekly, and their time and even day of therapy often changes frequently. To us, this is not ethical nor is it conducive to positive outcomes. Furthermore, it over burdens the practitioners as they may often have too many clients for the spaces available in their calendar and thus little capacity to build the therapeutic rapport necessary to evoke change. At PsychologyCare your time of therapy will always be your time of therapy. So, for example if we book you in for 9am on a Monday, your therapist will consistently be available to work with you at 9am on a Monday, until no longer needed.

 

 

A healing relationship is a committed relationship!

In order to achieve a consistent therapy relationship for change we ask for a commitment from you. We ask clients commencing at PsychologyCare to commit to be seen weekly for at least 6 sessions. We do this because we believe the greatest way to achieve change and amelioration of symptoms is via consistency and frequency of appointments in the first instance. After six weekly sessions you can decide with your therapist whether it would be beneficial for you to continue regular weekly sessions or move to fortnightly or even monthly appointments.

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