CBT Individual Therapy

CBT and ACT Therapy for Anxiety, Depression, Stress and Relationships

Here’s where to start:

Free Quick Chat Call

INCLUDES: An introductory 15-minute call to learn more about me, CBT and how therapy works. Ask any questions you have.

BEST WAY TO: Check out if we are a good fit and know that CBT is a great option for you.

One 1:1 60 minute CBT session

INCLUDES: Session summary email, psych information and exercise sheets. Psych assessment and strategies.

BEST WAY TO: Check out therapy and explore problems from a different perspective. Decide on a therapy package. AED 950 (USD260)

4X4 – 4 CBT steps to FastFix Anxiety in 4 Weeks

INCLUDES: 1) Figure out what your brain is doing 2) Understand how it Works and 3) Learn how to change your thoughts, and 4) feelings. 4X4 comes with 20+ video lessons, comprehensive psychological information and CBT worksheets. Add 1:1 sessions whenever you want at AED950.

BEST WAY TO: Do Effective CBT Therapy Faster, Cheaper (50% cheaper) and Better with CBT Expert and Psychologist Dr Sharyn. AED2000 (USD545)

Does this sound familiar?

You can’t sleep at night because you’re stuck in a vicious cycle of negative thoughts. You dread facing the day because it brings nothing but stress. Life stopped bringing you joy a long time ago. Everything seems so difficult. You can’t concentrate and have to force yourself to complete the simplest tasks.

When you go outside, you feel anxious. Your heart is beating so fast, as if someone’s chasing you. You wish you could stay home all day, not having to see or talk to anyone.

You always feel angry, and even the smallest things make you snap. Why can’t you just be happy and enjoy life like everyone else? What’s wrong with you? You feel so lonely and tired. You feel like you’re failing. You don’t know what to do, but you know you need to do something. You’ve come to the right place!

Here are the issues I commonly work with:

  • Anxiety: Panic, Anxiety Attacks, Overwhelm

  • Social Anxiety

  • Depression

  • Difficult Emotions – Anger, Grief

  • Stress management

  • Relationship Anxiety

Use Evidence-Based, Solution-Focused CBT to Learn About and Change your Brain

Don’t rely on these things:

  • Medication - It will help you cope better, but you’ll still need to understand your brain to change 

  • Hoping it will all go away - brains think and feel automatically, so you’ll probably keep getting the same old stuff

  • Therapy that isn’t professional, practical, evidence-based, structured or solution-focused

Instead:

  • Do short, sharp, intensive therapy

  • Learn fast, focused and science-based therapy that works

  • Be your own therapist - understand and manage your brain yourself

  • Know how to manage relationships

  • Know your purpose in life and how to achieve it

  • Learn from an expert, experienced, highly trained professional

1. Choose to Change

2. Choose CBT Package

3. Book, Pay and Begin

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You’ve tried putting on a brave face and dealing with your problems alone.

You’ve read many articles about depression, anxiety, childhood trauma or loss, trying to make sense of your thoughts and feelings and looking for a way to feel normal again.

But those articles didn’t help. You still can’t sleep or even concentrate. You feel sad, angry and stressed all the time. Let me help. Together, we’ll uncover the root cause of your problems and figure out the best ways for you to cope with negative thoughts and feelings, helping you become the calm, confident and happy person again.

Want to do Deeper Work in CBT?

3 ways you can do deeper work in CBT.

4X4 (My best recommendation)

Best for: Persistent Anxiety, Stress, Depression, Broken Relationships, Life Disappointments, Stuckness
Do CBT Cheaper, Faster, & Easier

4 CBT Steps to FastFix Anxiety in 4 Weeks 

My Signature Program to manage Anxiety, Stress and Fear (or any Difficult Emotion)

This program includes everything we do (and more) in four sessions in 20+ online videos, CBT worksheets, and lots of extra psychological information.

I've shared many more CBT and ACT info sheets, exercises, and explanations than I could ever do in 1:1 sessions. You can often come back to these videos to stay on track. Get a complete set of fundamental skills to fix anxiety fast and effectively.

Manage Anxiety (or any difficult emotion) with clear, easy-to-follow steps.

1:1 Individual Sessions (Zoom/In-office): AED950/USD260 

Previous Clients: please text or email me as your costs are different.

Sessions always include email summaries, psychometrics, psychological tips, worksheets, exercises & email support. Ultimate attention and targeted CBT and ACT therapy to manage trauma, persistent anxiety, high-level stress, panic, overwhelm and broken relationships.

Go deeper with 9x9 

9 CBT steps to radically change your life.

My Signature Program to manage Anxiety, Stress and Fear (or any Difficult Emotion)

Competently manage thoughts, feelings and relationships in a series of systematic psychological steps.

This program includes Eight 1:1 individual sessions, 40+ online videos, CBT exercise sheets, Weekly Group Coaching calls and lots of extra information.

I've shared many more CBT and ACT info sheets, exercises, and explanations than I could ever do in 1:1 sessions. You can often come back to these videos to stay on track. Go Deeper and radically change your life.

Learn how to deepen intimate relationships, regulate emotional responses and be reflective and mindful. Create a peaceful and accepting mindset. Use clear, coherent and science-based psychological steps that you can easily follow and come back to whenever you need to.

This is the blueprint I use with my clients to help them systematically and effectively learn about and understand how their brain behaves when it feels anxiety, fear, or stress.

Each of these steps builds upon the previous one - and leads you to a space where you stay calm, focused and confident.

Use these science-based steps to change how you feel and respond.

1. Choose to Change

2. Choose CBT Package

3. Book, Pay and Begin

Dr Sharyn - Theories and Ideas I like to work with

These are the theoretical principles I keep in mind while I’m working with you.

Learn and understand how YOUR brain works. 

  • Your brain processes and makes sense of information in your unique way. You are different.

  • When you know about brain function and how different parts of your brain behave, you will understand why you often behave the way you do. 

  • You will no longer be surprised when you notice thoughts and feelings that don’t make sense or struggle with unwanted behaviours. You’ll have meaningful skills, tools and tactics that work.

Your brain is capable of change. 

  • You can be different – completely different if you wish to be.

  • Although it’s easy to say and believe that brains can change, actually doing it is difficult - because most of us instinctively resist change.

We’re often stuck and powerfully anchored into who we think we are, so change is not always appealing.

Your fear, anxiety, stress and loneliness will be very different if you use self-compassion.

  • The more you resist these feelings - fighting them, fearing them, fixing them, criticizing and belittling them – the more you’ll notice they persist.

  • When you change your response to a caring or soothing comment or movement, you are using self-compassion.

  • Self-compassion is the antidote for automatic thinking that critically puts you down all the time and reminds you that you aren’t ‘good enough’.

Your brain wants to make sense of your world. It never stops thinking and problem-solving and making meaning. 

  • That’s because your brain is always searching for coherence and cohesiveness.

  • Brains love integration – between your thoughts and feelings, between the past, present and the future, between what you think and what you do.

  • Part of your task is to develop this integration – for example, between who you are and how you behave, between what you believe and what you do, and between what you think and how you feel.

You are not your thoughts. You are not your feelings.

  • You may believe you are what you think and feel – sometimes, you won’t believe this.

  • You are yourself. And your brain produces thoughts and feelings.

  • Since you can notice these thoughts and feelings, then you are obviously not them.

  • Well then, you might ask, who am I? (I’m glad you asked).

Who are you? To answer this question, you’ll have to explore further.

  • To go deeper into your thinking, dreams, memories, passions, values and visions.

  • Finding your purpose helps you build a meaningful and fulfilling life.

  • You’ll also find the calm and still mind you search for.

1. Choose to Change

2. Choose CBT Package

3. Book, Pay and Begin

FAQ

  • If you’re coming to a therapy session and you’ve gotten past the first hurdle (actually making the appointment), there are things you can do that will make it a more fruitful and useful experience.

    You might like to take some notes about the problems and things that bother you the preceding week and any questions you have about your thoughts, feelings and behaviours.

    These ideas help keep the session on track, although I will ask you many questions to unearth what’s important.

    Remember, we’re on an exploration journey, so there is nothing right or wrong - just experiences that we need to think about, put together, and investigate to understand.

    I love the magic of brains. The human brain assembles, analyses and interprets information at lightning speed and in many ways that we often cannot explain.

    However, we’ll use what research tells us about thinking, feeling and behaviour to help you figure out your mind so that you can get the absolute best out of it.

  • Together we assemble all the information and ideas you have and combine them with the theories and experience I have, and we try to make sense of what’s going on for you.

    It’s a creative process which means we work together – exploring different ideas and interpretations.

    It’s a bit like working with a big box of jigsaw pieces and looking for missing bits so we can understand the whole picture.

    Sometimes we’ll do experiments (thinking and behaviour ones) to discover what is happening inside your head.

    At the end of the first session, I’ll give you two assessment questionnaires you can take home and complete.