Yvonne Positive Change Behaviour Support & Psychology

Services

Psychology

Families & Parenting
Children & Adolescents
Relationships
Personal Growth

Yvonne is a licensed, professional psychologist with broad experience across a range of client issues including all age groups. She is passionate about supporting people to transform their own lives through gaining a holistic understanding of the person, empowerment through identifying strengths, and utilising evidence-based treatments and interventions.

Yvonne has a special interest in supporting women through major life transitions and has many years of experience working with highly complex clients including in the disability sector (NDIS registered Psychologist & Behaviour Support Practitioner).

Anxiety & Depression
Complex Trauma & PTSD
Grief & Loss
Stress & Worry

Areas of Expertise

Disability (NDIS Registered)
Carers Support
Life Transitions
Women’s Wellness

PSY: 0002125973
Medicare Provider: 6330311L

NDIS Services

Psychology

Yvonne has a specialisation in supporting people living with a disability. She has broad experience as a psychologist working with anxiety, depression, and complex trauma, conditions that so often accompany disability. With a passion for improving quality of life for her clients, she works collaboratively with family and other allied health professionals, and enjoys working with children, adolescents, and adults.

Complex behaviours of concern:
Verbal & physical aggression
Property damage
Self-injurious behaviours
Absconding

CURRENTLY AT CAPACITY (no new clients being taken at this time)

Functional behavioural analysis
Behaviour Support Plans
Restrictive Practices
Training and psychoeducation

Areas of Expertise

Intellectual Disability & Developmental delays
Autism Spectrum Disorder
ADHD
Anxiety & Depression
Complex trauma & PTSD
Oppositional Defiance Disorder
Intermittent Explosive Disorder

Behaviour Support

Behaviour Support encompasses understanding complex and challenging behaviours of concern, seeking to identify the underlying motivations, environmental issues, and unmet needs, that lead to such behaviour. Working with evidence-based techniques and strategies, Yvonne builds holistic, person-centred behaviour support plans that focus on existing strengths to build skills in individuals, families, carers, staff, and support structures surrounding the person.

NDIS Practitioner ID: P0004453