People who are looking for a psychologist, or other therapist, will often get a chance to talk about their problem, be asked how they feel and what they think they should do about it. While it can be useful to figure out how you feel and to talk through your problems, if you knew how to solve them, you would already be doing that – that’s why you came seeking help. To be asked by your psych what you should do about it can be really frustrating. It can leave people feeling unheard and misunderstood.
At Joshua Davidson Therapy, we will actually hear you.
We won’t just nod as you talk, waiting for the moment to ask you what you think you should do about it,
we’ll help you plan what you can do, and then help you go and do that.
When we ask you how you are feeling,
we are focusing on making sure we understand you
and that you become aware of how your feelings are a part of your decision making.
Rather than automatically assuming all of your difficulties are due to trauma or some other pop psych trope,
we will take a thorough look at you, your situation, your history, and help you identify what is actually occurring,
and if we do find that there has been a trauma that has caused or exacerbated your experience,
we will do actual trauma therapy – which often isn’t what most people think it is.
Once we have a better understanding of what has brought you to us, we will help you create practical plans to make real changes now.
We use evidence and science based therapeutic methods. We will help you to systematically solve your difficulties, help you acquire skills and knowledge, and assist you to improving your quality of life, so you can have your best life — not neuro normative, not ableist, not infantilising; rather we work on empowerment, neuro affirming, individuality within a social context, and working towards making ourselves redundant from your life. We will tell you our honest opinion, and unambiguously explain to you why we think so. We deal in truth, even when it is hard truth.
We will work on creating hypotheses to understand and explain your experiences, then work with you to test these, challenging erroneous assumptions (including ours) and work towards finding the best model that explains your experience.
Here at Joshua Davidson Therapy, we work a great deal with neurodivergent people (including Autism and ADHD), gender divergent people (the full spectrum of trans), sexual diversity (poly, bi, pan, ace, aro etc), and people with complex medical co-occurring diagnoses. We work with people who are experiencing self harm / suicidal ideation, ‘addiction’, disordered eating, ex cult, relationship violence, cultural diversity and people from many other niches that find it hard to find someone who understands (or will take the time to understand), and actually do something.
Sometimes doing something means we will advocate for you, sometimes help you through formal diagnosis, sometimes we will hold your hope of a brighter future when you can’t, sometimes we will be brutally honest with you, sometimes we will challenge your base fundamental assumptions… but we will always do so with respect for who you are and your situation.
You aren’t alone.
You don’t have to do this alone.
We can help.
We can see you privately, via a GP (MHTP), or support you via NDIS.
For details on how to see us, look at our Contacts Page, or you can
to book online, or call us on 08 6507 6054.