Vanessa Allen
Mental Health Social Worker
Accepting New Clients
Contact Information
Evolving Minds Counselling and Psychology
info@evolvingminds.com.au
evolvingminds.com.au
Sutherland Shire Sydney, NSW
About
Vanessa Allen is an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker and Psychotherapist with over 18 years of experience working with children, adolescents and adults across private practice, mental health, child protection and community settings.
Vanessa has extensive experience working with ADHD and other neurodevelopmental presentations and works from a neurodiversity-affirming perspective.
Her work with ADHD clients includes executive functioning, emotional regulation, organisation, motivation, self-esteem, anxiety and the impact of ADHD on everyday functioning. She has undertaken formal training in ADHD assessment and provides ADHD assessment and psychological therapy to adolescents and adults.
Vanessa also has particular clinical interests in autism, eating disorders, trauma and complex trauma, anxiety and emotional regulation. She is an ANZAED Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician and has a particular interest in the intersection between ADHD, neurodivergence and eating disorders.
She is the Director of Evolving Minds Counselling and Psychology in the Sutherland Shire, Sydney, and provides both in-person and telehealth services.
Areas of Expertise
- ADHD Assessment
- ADHD in Adolescents
- ADHD in Adults
- ADHD in Children
- ADHD in Women
- Anger Management
- Anxiety & Phobias
- Autism
- Autism Assessment
- Behaviour Problems
- Coexisting Conditions
- Depression
- Eating Disorders
- Leadership Coaching
- Mood Disorders
- Parenting
- Personal/Life Coaching
- Relationship Issues
- School Issues
- Self-Esteem & Self Development
- Social Skills
- Stress Management
- Trauma
- Worklife Coaching
Works With
- Adults
- Children (5-12)
- Adolescents (13-17)
- Families
- Parents/Caregivers
- Corporates
Inclusivity & Accessibility
- Wheelchair Assess
- Telehealth / Zoom Available
- LGBTQIA+
- Lived Experience
Therapeutic & Treatment Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Radically Open DBT (RO-DBT)
- Schema Therapy
- Interpersonal Therapy (IPT)
- Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- EMDR, Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)
- Attachment-informed therapy
- Somatic and body-based approaches
- Neurodiversity-affirming therapy
- CBT-E, MANTRA
- Family-Based Treatment (FBT)
- Temperament-Based Therapy with Supports (TBTS)
- DBT for Eating Disorders (DBT-ED).
Billing Information
- Private Health
- NDIS Provider
Qualifications & Credentials
- Master of Social Work
- Graduate Diploma in Psychological Science
- Graduate Diploma in Counselling
- Graduate Certificate in Developmental Trauma
- Bachelor of Applied Social Science (Management)
Professional Memberships
- AASW Accredited Mental Health Social Worker
- ANZAED Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician
- EMDR Association of Australia (EMDRA)
- Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA)
- Medicare Provider
- SIRA Provider
- Butterfly Foundation Approved Clinician
- Blue Knot Foundation
- Australian Psychological Society (Affiliate)
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