Your mental health is
invaluable
Understanding and managing your mental health will significantly change your quality of life, and those closely connected to you.
Be Heard.
Resolve. Restore.
Vanessa de Sauty Psychologist
BSci-Psych, Pgdip Psych, MCouns, DipTheo AssocMAPS.
Vanessa de Sauty is a warm and empathic psychologist, dedicated to help you understand your unique mental health journey.
Equipped with over 17 years of private practice, with a Masters of Counselling, Vanessa specialises in treating:
Anxiety
Depression
Trauma
ADHD and understanding neurodivergence
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Grief and Loss
Relationship Counselling
Vanessa is committed to providing a thorough clinical interview and follow up assessments from your first session and building a treatment plan that is tailored to your specific needs. Therapeutic goals are collaborative and there is a commitment to work towards those goals together to see the changes you need.
Drawing from a range of therapeutic modalities such as Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Internal Family Systems Therapy, EMDR (Advanced Training completed for trauma), and Exposure and Response Prevention for OCD. Vanessa is also currently completing her ADHD coaching certification.
In addition to her clinical work, Vanessa is a dedicated educator in the Masters of Counselling program for the University of New England, and previously Excelsia College.
Vanessa also offers workshops for organisations such as: Preventing Burnout, Mental Health Awareness, Suicide Prevention and Managing Anxiety.
Please be in touch to book in a counselling session, workshop or seminar.
Services
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Standard Sessions are 50min in duration.
Typically the initial consultation is comprised over two sessions of 50min, or a 90min session to allow time for a thorough clinical interview and assessment to assist our treatment goals.
If you would like a Medicare rebate, you will need to acquire a Mental Health Care Plan referral from your GP, and this will provide you with a rebate for 10 sessions each calendar year.
The current rebate in NSW is $96.65 per session, and my fee is currently $220 for a general consultation, and $250 for a initial 50min consultation, or $330 for a 90min initial consultation.
For an ADHD assessment session it involves a pre ASRS screening assessment, a structured clinical interview and a report for $350.
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I offer Burnout Prevention Seminars for your workplace that involves pre and post assessments, a workshop tailored to the assessment results with strategies to assist your workplace to have a healthy and vibrant culture, as well as skills to assist your employees and colleagues to have a good and long lasting tenure.
I also offer workshops in Mental Health Check in’s and managing anxiety.
I also offer group therapy classes in Learning the Art of Vulnerability, and Strategies for Managing Anxiety and Depression, Parental Support Groups, Social Skill Training and ADHD support groups.
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Are you Burning Out? Take this free quiz to find out what level you are operating in.
Please also see this workbook packed with 73 pages of skills to help you prevent, manage and treat burnout. As well as a printable and accessible workbook with just the exercises.
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What Counselling involves:
Allowing yourself to be heard.
Understanding your emotions and behaviour and where they come from.
Evaluate how your family history is impacting your present.
Clinical assessment through both self-report and interview in order to understand:
a) what mental health symptoms may be present
b) whether your symptoms meet criteria for a diagnosis
c) understand its severity compared to percentile norms of the population.
Form treatment plans to help you manage your unique mental health journey.
Services I do not provide:
Court mandated counselling- Therapeutic outcomes in the modalities I prescribe to are dependent on a client who is self-motivated to apply themselves to therapeutic tasks. I will not provide a court document for anyone I have not had a therapeutic relationship with before the legal issue ensued.
Secondary Referrals- I will only see a client who has self-referred, and I will not accept a booking from another party.
Child Counselling- My area of focus applies to primarily to adult clients 16 years and above.
Please get in touch to make a booking