Services provided:

Cognitive-Behavioural treatments are provided for the following disorders (according to DSM-IV diagnostic criteria):

Anxiety disorders

• Panic disorder (group and individual treatment)


• Panic disorder/agoraphobia (group and individual treatment)


• Specific phobias (including blood/needle phobia, height phobia, animal phobias)


• Social phobia (group and individual treatment)


• Generalised anxiety disorder (group treatment)


• Obsessive Compulsive disorder (individual treatment)


• OCD spectrum disorders e.g. trichotillomania (individual treatment)

Eating disorders (individual treatment only):

• Anorexia Nervosa


• Bulimia Nervosa


• Eating disorders not otherwise specified

How to refer:

Clients can be referred by a health professional, or can self refer (letters of referral will be answered when the client is seen). Initially the client will attend assessment with a psychiatrist. If the client has a primary anxiety or eating disorder, and would benefit from a cognitive behavioural intervention, they will be treated by a clinical psychologist.

About the treating clinicians:

The Macarthur Mental Health Service Anxiety & Eating Disorders Clinics are staffed by Masters-level Clinical Psychologists, with extensive experience in treating the above disorders.

Information:

For more information about the clinics, call Rosemary Clancy or Sarah Lam on (02) 46 295 400