Anna Elisara
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Anna Elisara

Provisional Psychologist

BA Hons (Psych). Currently completing MClinPsych

 

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Key Areas of Interest

  • Child and Adolescent Therapy
  • Adverse childhood experiences
  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Life transitions and adjustment
  • Grief and loss
  • Parenting

Therapeutic Framework/Strategies

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
  • Schema Therapy
  • The Unified Protocol
  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
  • Mindfulness
  • Attachment Informed Parenting

About Anna

Please note Anna is a Placement Student and sessions with her do not attract Medicare or Private Health Fund Rebates.

Anna is a warm and empathic Provisional Psychologist in her last stages of her Master of Clinical Psychology degree. Anna places great importance on the client-therapist relationship - which is one of the strongest predictors of therapy progress - and strives to create a space for her clients that is safe, validating, and truly non-judgemental. While struggles and goals are different for every client, overall Anna aims to help her clients to increase their self-awareness and self-compassion, get in touch with what really matters to them, and create a rich and meaningful life for themselves.

How Anna might support you

Anna works with adults, children, and parents. She is particularly interested in working with adults whose distress is traceable in some way back to difficult childhood experiences (e.g., neglect, invalidation, abandonment). Anna has experience working with adults experiencing a range of difficulties including anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, adjustment disorder, and grief and loss. With adults, Anna primarily works within a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) or Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) framework, incorporating elements of Schema Therapy and evidence-based techniques like Self-Compassion and Mindfulness.

Anna also thoroughly enjoys working with children of all ages and their parents, drawing primarily from attachment framework, Circle of Security Parenting, and the Unified Protocol for Children (UP-C). In her child work, Anna aims to help children increase their confidence and their ability to self-regulate, and to help parents to identify and meet their children's emotional needs and scaffold their emotional development.

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