Linda Carter
General psychologist, specialising in:
- Adjustment Difficulties and Life Transitions
- Alcohol and Other Drug Concerns
- Anger Management
- Anxiety Disorders
- Adjustment Difficulties and Life Transitions
- Alcohol and Other Drug Concerns
- Anger Management
Hi, I’m Linda
I focus my practice on people’s needs bringing all my life experience and cultural values to assist clients overcome their issues, big or small. I am able to communicate with children, the elderly, people with disabilities to CEO’s. The last few years I have worked in areas of trauma related incidents with individuals, families and law enforcement. My children and partner have Native Indian blood. I have spent time living and working in Aboriginal Communities, as well as people of other nationalities and cultures.
I can help you with
- Adjustment Difficulties and Life Transitions
- Alcohol and Other Drug Concerns
- Anger Management
- Anxiety Disorders
- Autism
- Burnout
- Chronic Pain and Pain Management
- Communication Difficulties
- Confidence
- Depression and Low Mood
- Disability
- Domestic and Family Violence
- Educational Supports and Adjustments
- Family Difficulties
- Grief and Bereavement
- Health and Lifestyle
- Infant Sleep
- Leadership Development
- Loneliness
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Panic Attacks
- Parenting and New-Parent Support
- Perfectionism
- Performance
- Perinatal and Postnatal Mental Health
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Complex PTSD
- Relationship Difficulties
- Risky Behaviours
- Self-Development
- Self-Esteem
- Sexual Abuse
- Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Sleep and Insomnia
- Smoking Cessation
- Social Anxiety
- Stress Management
- Trauma
- Weight Management
- Wellbeing Coaching
- Workplace Incidents
- Workplace Relations
- Workplace Stress
I’m trained in
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Coaching
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Hypnotherapy
- Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
- Mindfulness-Based Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Person-Centred Therapy
- Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (TF-CBT)
Qualifications
MEd (Guid & Couns); PG Dip Psych; Dip Law & Security Admin; BA Psych; Dip Clinical Hypnosis & Strategic Psych; Mem AAPI, HAH; I have had the honour of developing my skills over a lifetime of working with people of all ages in many different roles, environments and situations. During the last 14 years, I have worked as a psychologist, mainly in remote, rural communities, focusing primarily on individuals and families in trauma. I have also had the privilege of assisting first responders manage any trauma encountered during critical incidents. A key focus of my practice is to assess and target evidence based psychological services to determine a client’s explicit needs and requirements. A variety of clinical, educational or organisational issues, developing effective interventions and treatment plans is determined with the client, concentrating on their results in conjunction with the current DSM.