LM Psychology

LM Psychology in Hurlstone Park, Sydney, NSW is categorized under Physiotherapists with expertise in Back Pain Physio, Physiotherapy, Rehabilitation Physio.

Some other services offered by LM Psychology are Shoulder injury Physio, Sports injury Physio, Headache Physio, Sports Physio, Neck Pain Physio, Acupuncture, Musculoskeletal injury Physio.

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Louise Morrow | Clinical Psychologist

Louise Morrow is a registered Clinical Psychologist with over 20 years experience as a clinician and manager providing psychological services in both public health and corporate settings.
Prior to opening her private practice Louise was the NSW State Manager of Trauma and Assessment Services for one of Australia’s leading national providers of corporate psychology services, leading a team of psychologists providing Critical Incident Stress Debriefing and Clinical Assessment services to both business and industry.

Louise takes an evidence-based approach to her work with clients. She incorporates Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Schema Therapy into her work with clients. Louise brings to her treatment approach both empathy and a strong sense of optimism that a way forward can be found for her clients to enact the change and make the choices that will enable them to live a full, vital life.

Louise has many years of experience in the treatment of:

Anxiety disorders
Bipolar Disorder
Depression
Low self-esteem
Chronic pain
Anger management
Work stress (including that arising from bullying and harassment)
Relationship issues

Clients may also present with issues relating to concerns about their vocational choice or direction in life.

Louise regularly attends professional training workshops and conferences to keep abreast of the latest evidence-based approaches to treatment. She has advanced training in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and specialty training in Schema Therapy. Louise provides both brief and longer term therapy depending on her client’s needs.
Louise’s qualifications include:

Masters degree in Clinical Psychology (UNSW)
Masters degree in the Psychology of Coaching (USYD)
Bachelor’s degree in Psychology (UNSW)

Louise is a registered Psychologist with AHPRA (Australian Health Practitioner Agency) with Practice Endorsement as a Clinical Psychologist. She is a full member of the Australian Psychological Society and the Association of Contextual and Behavioural Science.

Louise is an accredited treatment provider under WorkCover NSW and with the Veterans and Veterans Families Counselling Service. She is a provider of treatment services for Barcare and is registered as an ATAPS provider for the Inner West Sydney region.

Services

Anxiety Disorders

Generalised Anxiety
Panic Disorder
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Phobias
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Health anxiety
Performance anxiety
Social anxiety
Perfectionism

Mood Disorders

Depression
Bipolar Affective Disorder (BPAD)
Dysthymia
Adjustment disorders with a mix of anxiety and depression

Other psychological problems including:

Anger management
Bulimia
Grief and loss
Chronic Pain
Self-esteem
Stress management
Bullying and harassment
Procrastination
Communication and interpersonal skills

Treatments

Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)

The core message of ACT is to accept what is out of your personal control and commit to action that improves and enriches your life. Through ACT you can learn psychological skills and strategies that enable you to deal with painful thoughts and feelings effectively. You will receive help to clarify what is important to you (i.e. your values) so that you can use that knowledge to guide and motivate you to change your life for the better.

Schema Therapy

Schemas, or “life-traps”, are longstanding, enduring self-defeating patterns of thinking and feeling. Some common examples of schemas include “I’m unlovable”, “I don’t fit in”, “I’m a failure”, and “Its not good enough!”. Schemas generally develop early in our development from some unmet core emotional need and are expressed behaviourally through the coping styles of schema maintenance, schema avoidance and schema compensation. Schemas are often very tenacious, can act as barriers to our achieving our goals and cause havoc in our relationships.

In Schema therapy you will be helped to identify your schemas, recognise your coping styles, learn how to stand up to your schema and develop healthier alternatives to replace them.

Mindfulness

How often are you in “auto pilot”, those times when our mind is miles away from where you are, for example, worrying about that meeting with your boss while watching TV, or fantasising about an upcoming holiday while sitting on the bus? At those times we lose contact with the present moment, the here and now. While it can be enjoyable and harmless to take little “mind trips” while doing routine or familiar tasks, at other times we can become so preoccupied with negative thoughts of the past, the future and our emotions that we experience unnecessary suffering.

Mindfulness means intentionally paying attention to our internal and external experiences in the present moment, calmly acknowledging and accepting our thoughts, feelings and physical sensations in a nonjudgmental manner. Mindfulness is a process of awareness, of being open, with curiosity and flexibility, to what is happening in the here and now.

Research on Mindfulness has identified the following benefits:

• A reduction in rumination
• Stress reduction
• Improve focus and attention
• Decrease emotional reactivity
• Increase cognitive flexibility
• Improve relationship satisfaction

Reviews

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