Your mental health is invaluable

Understanding and managing your mental health will significantly change your quality of life, and those closely connected to you.

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Meet Vanessa

BSci-Psych, Pgdip Psych, MCouns, DipTheo AssocMAPS.

Vanessa de Sauty is a warm and empathic psychologist, dedicated to help you understand your unique mental health journey.

Equipped with over 17 years of private practice, with a Masters of Counselling, Vanessa specialises in treating:

Anxiety
Depression
Trauma
ADHD and understanding neurodivergence
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Grief and Loss
Relationship Counselling

Vanessa is committed to providing a thorough clinical interview and follow up assessments from your first session and building a treatment plan that is tailored to your specific needs. Therapeutic goals are collaborative and there is a commitment to work towards those goals together to see the changes you need.

Drawing from a range of therapeutic modalities such as Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Internal Family Systems Therapy, EMDR (Advanced Training completed for trauma), and Exposure and Response Prevention for OCD. Vanessa is also currently completing her ADHD coaching certification.

In addition to her clinical work, Vanessa is a dedicated educator in the Masters of Counselling program for the University of New England, and previously Excelsia College.

Please get in touch to book in a counselling session, workshop or seminar.

Services

Standard Sessions are 50min in duration.
Typically the initial consultation is comprised over two sessions of 50min, or a 90min session to allow time for a thorough clinical interview and assessment to assist our treatment goals.
If you would like a Medicare rebate, you will need to acquire a Mental Health Care Plan referral from your GP, and this will provide you with a rebate for 10 sessions each calendar year.
The current rebate in NSW is $96.65 per session, and my fee is currently $220 for a general consultation, and $250 for an initial 50min consultation, or $330 for a 90min initial consultation.
For an ADHD assessment session it involves a pre ASRS screening assessment, a structured clinical interview and a report for $350.
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I offer seminars and workshops to assist in the prevention of developing psychological issues and mental health literacy.
Topics include: Burnout Prevention, Anxiety, Neurodivergence and Mental Health Check-ins. These can be held for the community or presented in your workplace.
For Burnout Prevention Seminars, I offer pre and post assessments, plus a workbook I have co-authored with strategies to assist your workplace to have a healthy and vibrant culture. This workbook includes skills such as understanding your unique stress profile, knowing your nervous system, energy audits, balancing competing demands and emotional regulation.
I also offer group therapy classes in Learning the Art of Vulnerability, Strategies for Managing Anxiety and Depression and Neurodivergent Support Groups.
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Are you Burning Out?
Take this free quiz to find out what level you are operating in.
Take the Burnout Quiz
The Burnout Prevention Workbook is packed with 68 pages of skills to help you prevent, manage and treat burnout. Includes printable exercises.
Burnout Workbook
Vanessa is featured in the international “Challenges that Change Us” podcast as resident psychologist.
🎙️ "Challenges That Change Us"
International Podcast
How to ADHD
Useful YouTube videos on ADHD.
Watch the videos

Purchase your workbook here. 48 Pages of Exercises to manage your anxiety from Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.

Managing Anxiety

Evidence-Based Therapeutic Tools for Navigating and Reducing Anxiety

Purchase your own Anxiety Workbook designed for my clients and those on my waitlist.

48 Pages of therapeutic exercises and information devoted to managing anxiety, based on Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.

Please click on the workbook picture for the link to purchase.

What does counselling involve?

Allowing yourself to be heard.
Understanding your emotions, thoughts and behaviours, how they intersect, and where they come from.
Clinical assessment through both self-report and interview in order to understand:
a) what mental health symptoms may be present
b) whether your symptoms meet criteria for a diagnosis
c) understand its severity compared to percentile norms of the population.
Form treatment plans to help you manage your unique mental health journey.
Services I do not provide:
Court mandated counselling
Therapeutic outcomes in the modalities I prescribe to are dependent on a client who is self-motivated to apply themselves to therapeutic tasks. I will not provide a court document for anyone I have not had a therapeutic relationship with before the legal issue ensued.
Secondary Referrals
I will only see a client who has self-referred, and I will not accept a booking from another party.
Child Counselling
My area of focus applies to primarily to adult clients 16 years and above.