My name is Rebecca Stuart, I am a clinical psychologist. I work with people who are experiencing all kinds of difficulties.

HOW I WORK: While I recognise that past trauma is a huge factor in current suffering, I work with your current problems to uncover the unconscious patterns that keep you stuck. It is only through looking at your current problems that we can find a pathway to revealing the patterns that formed as a result of childhood difficulties. It is the strategies that we used in childhood to cope ~ that tend to hold us back in adulthood. By revealing these unconscious patterns, we can undo them, and work towards emotional freedom.

I see therapy as a tool to create change - to transform a person's life to be more fulfilling and enjoyable. I work on a regular basis as much as possible: I believe that progress is best made with regular weekly or fortnightly sessions.

WHAT I BELIEVE: I understand that “mental illnesses” are most often the result of mistreatment, abuse, or neglect, combined with ways that people have coped with what was beyond their control.

I believe strongly in the value of mental health care  - on an individual, social, and societal level. I believe that mentally healthy individuals make healthy societies - and healthy societies make healthy individuals, so everyone benefits from the mental health of all.  Hence the name “common good”. I believe that good quality mental health care should be accessible to all who need it, and to this end, I keep my costs and fees down for people with little money. I recognise that life is harder for some than others, due to factors outside our control.

Qualifications & Training: 

Current: Affect State Therapy (AST) training with Steve Arthey

2024: Completed training in Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP)

2019: Completed three year training in The Conversational Model of psychoanalytic psychotherapy

2017: Master of Clinical Psychology, Newcastle University. 

2013: Postgraduate Diploma, Psychology (4th Year), Newcastle University.

2010: Graduate Diploma, Psychology, Melbourne University.