Andrea Schwede - Clinical Psychologist
Services

Clinical Psychology (Telehealth)

Therapeutic Telehealth Psychology consultations for people aged 18 years and over located throughout Australia.

Book Telehealth Psychology consultations here

Treatment Areas

Mild, Moderate or Severe

  • Panic Attacks
  • Constant Worries/Nervousness (Generalised Anxiety Disorder)
  • Feeling Isolated or Lonely
  • Feeling Anxious in Social Situations (Social Anxiety)
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Specific Phobias or fear about a particular object or situation

  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Complex PTSD

  • Pregnancy concerns
  • Worries about starting, or expanding a family
  • Infertility
  • Perinatal Loss (Miscarriage, Stillbirth, Post-Birth Loss)
  • Anxiety - Pre or Post-Birth
  • Depression - Pre or Post-Birth
  • Psychosis - Pre or Post-Birth
  • Birth Trauma

Depression & Mania

  • Early Psychosis
  • Schizoaffective Disorder
  • Schizophrenia

Assistance about any of the conditions listed above for Family Members. This is known as Psychoeducation. It can help you understand what your loved one is experiencing and give you tips on how to support or talk to them about their situation. Psychoeducation is not eligible for Medicare Rebate. This service is Full Fee Paying only.

Telehealth

(Online Video Consultations & Phone Consultations)

Psychology without inconvenience

Benefits of Telehealth

  • Easily accessible, Australia-wide
  • Saves travel time & expense
  • Better for health
  • Just as effective as face-to-face therapy

Easily accessible, Australia-wide

Telehealth provides opportunities to access Psychology wherever there is:

  • reliable internet connection or telephone service
  • private space available

Be it from the comfort of home, a holiday hotel room, moving to a new city, at the office, interstate work travel, or living in a remote area - Telehealth makes Psychology accessible and provides continuity of care.

Saves travel time & expense

By eliminating the need for travel to a clinic, Telehealth saves time and expense.

  • - no fuel costs
  • - no traffic congestion
  • - no parking hassles or cost
  • - no travel time

Telehealth gives back valuable time to spend on things that matter.

Better for health

From illnesses such as the Common Cold, Influenza & Covid, through to Chicken Pox and Measles - Telehealth protects you from transmissible disease.

This is a particularly important consideration for people who are:

  • pregnant
  • caring for newborns
  • supporting the elderly
  • immunocompromised
  • or otherwise vulnerable

Unlike a clinic environment, Telehealth eliminates the risk of transmissible diseases.

Just as effective as face-to-face therapy

Research shows Telehealth for Psychology & Psychiatry is:

"equivalent to or more clinically effective than usual care"
Snoswell C. L., et. al., (2021). 1-16 DOI: 10.1177/1357633X211022907 Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare

This Telehealth service is not appropriate for circumstances when a person...

✗ is experiencing an urgent crisis or emergency situation

✗ has current suicidal thoughts or thoughts of hurting themselves or others

✗ is acutely unwell and have been advised to seek a mental health admission to hospital

✗ is required to undergo therapy or counselling either by a court or by any other authority

✗ does not have a device that can connect to the internet or does not have a reliable internet or phone connection

✗ cannot access a distraction free private space (exception: carers of infants & young children)

Professional Supervision

Online individual Professional, Peer, Clinical Endorsement (Registrar) Supervision.

Supervision for Provisional Psychologists is not currently offered.

Andrea is a Psychology Board of Australia approved Primary and Secondary Supervisor - STAP accredited since 2010.

Andrea has experience supervising:

  • Provisional Psychologists
  • General Psychologists seeking Endorsement in Clinical Psychology (Clinical Registrar)
  • Clinical Psychologists undertaking peer supervision to meet their AHPRA Registration requirements
  • Other Allied Health and Mental Health Clinicians - for reflective practice
  • Psychiatry Registrars for the CBT component of their training
Book Supervision appointments here