Sarah Levings
Psychologist

​About Sarah

 

Sarah is warm, curious and calming in her approach. She strives to build a trusting therapeutic alliance with her clients to help them foster self-awareness, understanding and personal growth, drawing on a strengths-based, proactive and flexible way of working. Seeing clients across Australia (via telehealth), Sarah works with people from a wide range of cultural backgrounds. She currently only works with adult clients.

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Areas of focus

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Sarah is particularly passionate about working with people wishing to address:
 

• Anxiety of all types (general, social, panic, obsessive-compulsive)

• Depression

• Low self-esteem

• Relationship and communication difficulties

• Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)

• Traumatic experiences (including PTSD)

• Parenting challenges

• Disordered eating

• Psychosis and personality-based concerns

• Attention difficulties

• Grief, loss and life transitions

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Therapeutic approach

 

Using a strengths-based approach, Sarah helps people explore past experiences and relationships, discover unhelpful behaviours, thoughts and beliefs that maintain difficulties, and learn more helpful coping strategies — so they can respond to difficult experiences and emotions more effectively and move toward a more meaningful and authentic life. She tailors treatment to individual needs, drawing on evidence-based approaches including:

 

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

• Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

• Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT)

• Schema Therapy

• Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)

• Mindfulness

• Motivational Interviewing

• Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT) 

• Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)

• Narrative Therapy and Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET)

 

Sarah has also completed accredited training in evidence-based approaches to parenting, including Circle of Security and Tuning Into Kids, and refines her skills through ongoing professional development, research and regular supervision.

 

Qualifications & experience

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Sarah has worked in private practice and community mental health settings, and as a trauma counsellor, supervisor, trainer and manager of a counselling program providing trauma counselling to people from refugee backgrounds. She has worked with adults, parents, couples, youth, children and families from diverse cultures and backgrounds.

 

Registrations & memberships 

 

• AHPRA registration: PSY0001687353 — registered psychologist

• Member, Australian Psychological Society (APS)

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Fees & rebates

 

Sarah offers telehealth appointments only: Medicare rebates may be available with a referral and Mental Health Treatment Plan issued by a GP. Private health rebates may also be available depending on your health insurance policy.

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View fees and rebate information.

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