YP Mindful Therapy with Leanne

Leanne is an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker with 20 years experience working in mental health across rural and regional Australia and particularly on Yorke Peninsula. She enjoys working with a wide range of clients across the lifespan with particular skills in trauma work, anxiety, depression, relational/attachment practices and working with the mind and body to bring about positive change and healing. Central to her work is creating a calm, safe therapeutic relationship that allows a client to explore and grow at their own pace.

She has specialised in children/youth mental health working with a wide range of complex families as well as adults presenting with mild to moderate and severe mental health distress. She is also a trained facilitator of Circle Of Security Parent groups.

Leanne is able to service multiple streams of referrals including Medicare, Private and National Disability Insurance Scheme.

Leanne uses a range of trauma informed, evidence-based interventions which are well established including psychotherapy, Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), relational/attachment therapy, narrative and neurobiological approaches.

Memberships:
– Australian Association of Social Workers
– Accredited Mental Health Social Worker

Qualifications:
– Bachelor of Psychology
– Bachelor of Social Work
– Graduate Diploma Social Science (Counselling Studies)
– Masters Social Science (Counselling Studies)

Clearances:
– Working with Children Check (WWCC)
– DCSI Child Related Employment Screening
– Responding to Risks of Harm, Abuse and Neglect (RRHAN-EC)
– National Police Clearance