Psychologists
Prasanna Pandithatharatne established PBP
CONSULTANCY in 1999 in Melbourne, Australia. The
clinic was one of the first multilingual psychological
services to be offered to the Sri Lankan Community
in Australia.
Over the past decade,
the consultancy has expanded its operation and structure
and is presently managed by Director (Psychologists)
who is employed within the practice.
The
practice employs many experts in the mental health
industry in Australia. The full time Registered
Psychologist - Principal Psychologist:
Prasanna Panditharatne, Director
Clinical Services; Director of Marketing, Education
and Training; The practice also employs other Psychologists
and qualified Counselors, a Practice Manager engages
the services of other mental health practitioners
from time to time. A well known multi-lingual Psychiatrist
consults from the practice on a part time basis.
The range of services provided by the
consultancy has needed to be extremely
broad, and presently envelopes: individual and relationship
counselling; family counselling; critical incident
and post trauma counselling; treatment for panic,
phobias and related anxiety problems; pain management;
treatment for substance abuse and addictions; treatment
for depression related illnesses; treatment for
the range of eating and dieting disorders; child
and adolescent services; family and parenting counselling;
vocational assessment and guidance; forensic psychological
services incorporating court reporting / assessments;
and an extensive array of equipment providing for
biofeedback and neurofeedback treatment protocols
– targeted particularly, although not exclusively,
to increase the non-pharmaceutical treatment options
for ADD and ADHD in children, as well as OCD, epilepsy,
and the range of anxiety and depression related
conditions.
Our primary therapeutic
mode, the Solution Oriented / CBT approach
has been evolving in Australia, the USA and Europe
for some 20 years and represents a contemporary,
comprehensive response by mental health care providers
to the increasing demands for cost effectiveness,
evidence based practice, accountability, and emphasis
on efficient positive outcomes. We provide an approach
to counselling that goes beyond listening respectfully,
where our focus places greater emphasis on empowerment
through enhancing personal awareness and targeted
skills. Our experience leads us to the achievement
of these gains through the design, with the client,
of behavioral and cognitive strategies to improve
motivation, clarity, personal responsibility, sense
of purpose and direction, and the development of
problem solving skills.
Recently,
CBT has evolved to incorporate mindfulness
within cognitive therapy to provide powerful evidence
based interventions most usefully employed in chronic
anxiety and depression, chronic pain management
and other recurrent mental disturbances. PBP CONSULTANCY
is continuing to develop individual and group treatment
options for these often treatment resistant populations.
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