Services

Telehealth

I am available to provide psychological treatment and support via telehealth across Australia.

Session Space

I do not currently have practice rooms. Instead, I prefer to provide home visits or sessions where it is most convenient to you (i.e. at your home, a café, park, or negotiated space suitable to both of us). As I am based in Adelaide, in person sessions are most available to people who are in the Adelaide metropolitan region.

In addition to the above, I am in Melbourne a number of times a year which provides me with an opportunity to see people who are based in Melbourne in person who I more regularly see via telehealth.

Medicare Subsidies

If you are based in Victoria or South Australia, you can claim part of the fee to see me back from Medicare if you have a referral from your GP or psychiatrist. While you can see me without a referral, a referral allows you to get up to 10 Medicare subsidized sessions with me.

Group work

I have considerable experience in preparing and providing psycho-educational and treatment groups across a range of psychological areas and issues. I can tailor such groups to the needs of particular populations or organisations. Please contact me to discuss options if you are interested this.

Areas of interest

While I have experience in working with many different issues across the time that I have been practicing as a psychologist, the following are some of areas I have specific interest and specialisation in:

  • Trauma and PTSD
  • Complex trauma
  • Relationships
  • Mental illness – Depression, Anxiety, Bipolar Affective Disorder
  • Supporting understanding and recovery from severe and/or chronic mental illness
  • Primary and preventative mental health care

Technical bits

I seek to adapt how I work to what works best for you.

However, the following are some of the therapeutic modalities that I will draw upon in doing this along with a very rough definition of what they do:

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

This is a therapeutic approach that focuses on how thoughts and behaviours can affect how we interact with the world, other people and ourselves. Change can occur though being aware of these thoughts and behaviour and working with them.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

This is a therapeutic approach that focuses on the role of values in our lives and how mindfully approaching our values can help us get through difficulties and enact change.

Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)

This is a therapeutic approach that seeks to build mindfulness skills and awareness to increase distress tolerance. It was designed originally to prevent depressive relapse and there is evidence that it can assist with this.

Mindfulness

This is a powerful skill that builds our capacity for awareness of ourselves in all our complexity. Such awareness gives us the capacity to explore and address things from our past, present, thoughts, emotions and sensations within us.

Somatic mindfulness

Somatic means “of the body” and somatic mindfulness uses awareness and experience of sensations and movement within the body to explore and address issues.

Contact me

Thu Vu
(call me 'tu')
Registered Psychologist
Melbourne, Victoria

Phone:
0434 509 590
Email:
hello@beingpsychology.com.au