SESSIONS:
- Talking and sharing usually provides new insights Into future awareness and prevention
- Observing and practicing usually provides more confidence
- Your goals discussed on the first day are flexibly adapted to your needs on the day
By session 2 or 3 you will know if my approach is right for you
Average length of a session is 55 minutes.
- TELEPHONE SESSIONS – Once offered to longterm clients who left Hobart. Now can be offered in several circumstances.
- WORKPLACE ASSISTANCE
- REPORTS and strategies
ABOUT THE PSYCHOLOGIST.
Dr Rayner-Brosnan is a psychologist with over 30 years experience in therapy, coaching, counseling, and workplace intervention and the workers compensation and injury and trauma recovery. She combines research, teaching and practice and now focuses on practice and constant learning. Her background has resulted in a preference to modify her choice of therapy options in a way that suits you as an individual. Dr Rayner-Brosnan has taught the biopsychosocial approach, and researched in the fields of the body’s response to stress and trauma and happiness.
Dr. Dawn wants you to have strategies that you can modify to your best advantage and feel ready for those situations in which you have been worrying about. Strategies that can be modified to suit you and really work are acts of enduring kindness to yourself because strategies have steps, that can be repeated into the future, in the wise adage “Give a man a fish feed him for one day but teach him how to fish, and feed him for a life time”.
If you need to understand the “why” about a complex situation or feelings, she aims to help you untangle events and emotions to allow you more comfort and understanding of yourself and others.
Maybe your goal is to first arrive at understanding and then become capable of moments of peace. Then find ways to have self-confidence acceptance of and possibility of more life choices and knowing where you can contribute; then to set boundaries which might relate to physical space or values; to have friends who you respect and relax with, to give up striving for perfection, but replace it with kindness and then to revel in moments of joy or the awe of nature.
To find your flow and comfort and security growing out of your enduring values. ……… does this describe some of your goals or needs?
Legal and work place reports can be provided. She enjoys helping clients develop and achieve positive interpersonal, personal or workplace goals.
Approaches include strategies based on CPT, IRRT, CBT, DBT, and ACT and foundation work in brief psychotherapies (mostly Adlerian), CBT , hypnosis, communication training, biopsychosocial models, and clinical psychophysiology.
EXPERIENCE
Dr. Dawn previously looked after CSIRO staff in various remote locations across Queensland . Understanding of rehabilitation, workplace dynamics grew as Consultant to the Workers Compensation Board of Queensland, and previously as tutor in social and organisational psychology. Anxiety depression and trauma were the main conditions at the Lilian Cooper Women’s Medical Centre in Brisbane and visiting the Bardon Counselling Centre and the Greenslopes Veterans Rehabilitation Hospital. Health psychology and the biopsychosocial model was honed further when combining tutoring and chronic health research on the medical campus of the University of Queensland. She now focusses on her clients. and forever learning.
* Current AHPRA registration
* Australian Psychological Society Member for over 30 years
* Fellow of the College of Health Psychology
* By invitation – foundation committee member of the Australian Psychological Society College of Health Psychologists 1997-1999
* APS Committee member for organisational health (judging panel for annual awards 2014-2015.