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ABOUT ODELIA CARMON

About Odelia

After 28 years as a psychotherapist I have learned to appreciate the strength and wisdom of my clients. Together we explore the possibilities of healing wounds left by arduous living and exploring the opportunities for a healthy fulfilled life. I practice holistically looking at the working and integration of the body and the mind using the conversational model as well as narrative therapy.
 
My practice offers; family, couples and individual therapy. I use an integrative approach consisting of the conversational model, existential and narrative therapies.
 
My therapeutic approach allows for my clients to guide me through their process and explore all the necessary and pressing issues that they feel they need to overcome. My role is that of a facilitator for change. Change can only through listening, hearing and respecting clients safety.
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About Odelia

After 28 years as a psychotherapist I have learned to appreciate the strength and wisdom of my clients. Together we explore the possibilities of healing wounds left by arduous living and exploring the opportunities for a healthy fulfilled life. I practice holistically looking at the working and integration of the body and the mind using the conversational model as well as narrative therapy.
 
My practice offers; family, couples and individual therapy. I use an integrative approach consisting of the conversational model, existential and narrative therapies.
 
My therapeutic approach allows for my clients to guide me through their process and explore all the necessary and pressing issues that they feel they need to overcome. My role is that of a facilitator for change. Change can only through listening, hearing and respecting clients safety.
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MINDFULNESS IS THE AWARENESS THAT EMERGES THROUGH PAYING ATTENTION ON PURPOSE, IN THE PRESENT MOMENT AND NON-JUDGMENTALLY, BTO THE UNFOLDING OF EXPERIENCE MOMENT TO MOMENT”

KABAT ZINN (1994)

MINDFULNESS IS THE AWARENESS THAT EMERGES THROUGH PAYING ATTENTION ON PURPOSE, IN THE PRESENT MOMENT AND NON-JUDGMENTALLY, BTO THE UNFOLDING OF EXPERIENCE MOMENT TO MOMENT”

KABAT ZINN (1994)

My qualifications

B.A.
Dip. Ed.
M.Ed.
GRAD. Dip Counselling
Master of Counselling.
Dip. Family Therapy,
Dip Couples Therapy.
Member of SCAPE and PACFA

Specialties

Depression
Family Conflict
Anxiety

Issues

Addiction
Alzheimer's
Anger Management
Child
Codependency
Eating Disorders
Marital and Premarital
Parenting
Self Esteem
Self-Harming

Mental Health

Impulse Control Disorders
Mood Disorders
Personality Disorders

SEXUALITY

Bisexual
Lesbian
LGBTQ+

Treatment Approach

Types of Therapy

It may look like a craft class, but art therapy is a serious technique that uses the creative process to help improve the mental health of clients. Art therapy can be used on children and adults to treat a wide range of emotional issues, including anxiety, depression, family and relationship problems, abuse and domestic violence, and trauma and loss. Commonly found in hospitals and community centres, art therapy programmes are based on the belief that the creative process is healing and life-enhancing. As they paint or draw, a skilled therapist can use the client's works of art and their approach to the process as springboards to help them gain personal insight, improve their judgment, cope with stress, and work through traumatic experiences.
Art Therapy
Supervision services are offered by qualified therapists, psychologists and counsellors. They provide formal supervision, guidance and expertise for pre-qualified professionals and those seeking counselling supervision for their everyday practices. While each membership organization has its own unique requirements, professionals offering clinical supervision help new practitioners advance their clinical knowledge, and satisfy requirements leading to full qualification.
Clinical Supervision and Qualified Supervisors
Cognitive-behavioural therapy stresses the role of thinking in how we feel and what we do. It is based on the belief that thoughts, rather than people or events, cause our negative feelings. The therapist assists the client in identifying, testing the reality of, and correcting dysfunctional beliefs underlying his or her thinking. The therapist then helps the client modify those thoughts and the behaviours that flow from them. CBT is a structured collaboration between therapist and client and often calls for homework assignments. CBT has been clinically proven to help clients in a relatively short amount of time with a wide range of disorders, including depression and anxiety.
Cognitive Behavioural (CBT)
Existential psychotherapy is based on the philosophical belief that human beings are alone in the world, and that this aloneness can only be overcome by creating one's own meaning, and exercising one's freedom to choose. The existential therapist encourages clients to face life's anxieties head on and to start making their own decisions. The therapist will emphasise that, along with having the freedom to carve out meaning, comes the need to take full responsibility for the consequences of one's decisions. Therapy sessions focus on the client's present and future rather than their past.
Existential
Family and Marital therapists work with families or couples both together and individually to help them improve their communication skills, build on the positive aspects of their relationships, and repair the harmful or negative aspects.
Family / Marital
Family Systems therapists view problems within the family as the result not of particular members' behaviours, but of the family's group dynamic. The family is seen as a complex system having its own language, roles, rules, beliefs, needs and patterns. The therapist helps each individual member understand how their childhood family operated, their role in that system, and how that experience has shaped their role in the current family. Therapists with the MFT credential are usually trained in Family Systems therapy.
Family Systems
Jungian or analytical therapy, developed by Carl Jung, seeks to help people access their unconscious to develop greater self-realisation and individuation. Jung, a psychoanalyst, sought to understand the psyche via dreams, art, mythology, world religion and philosophy. The Jungian therapist helps the patient find more meaning in their life, with respect for the mysterious nature of the soul.
Jungian
Narrative Therapy uses the client's storytelling to indicate the way they construct meaning in their lives, rather than focusing on how they communicate their problem behaviours. Narrative Therapy embraces the idea that stories actually shape our behaviours and our lives and that we become the stories we tell about ourselves. There are helpful narratives we can choose to embrace as well as unhelpful ones. Although it may sound obvious, the power of storytelling is to elevate the client--who is the authority of their narrative--rather than the therapist, as expert.
Narrative
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) is a combination of play therapy and behavioural therapy for young children and their parents or caregivers. The adults learn and practice new skills and techniques for relating to children with emotional or behaviour problems, language issues, developmental disabilities, or mental health disorders.
Parent-Child Interaction (PCIT)
Person-centred therapy uses a non-authoritative approach that allows clients to take more of a lead in discussions so that, in the process, they will discover their own solutions. The therapist acts as a compassionate facilitator, listening without judgment and acknowledging the client's experience without moving the conversation in another direction. The therapist is there to encourage and support the client and to guide the therapeutic process without interrupting or interfering with the client's process of self-discovery.
Person-Centred
Generally for children ages 3 to 11, play therapy is a form of counselling that relies on play to help therapists communicate with children and understand their mental health. Because children develop cognitive skills before language skills, play is an effective way to understand a child. The therapist may observe a child playing with toys--such as playhouses and dolls--to understand the child's behaviour and identify issues.
Play Therapy
Psychobiological Approach Couple Therapy
Psychodynamic therapy, also known as insight-oriented therapy, evolved from Freudian psychoanalysis. Like adherents of psychoanalysis, psychodynamic therapists believe that bringing the unconscious into conscious awareness promotes insight and resolves conflict. But psychodynamic therapy is briefer and less intensive than psychoanalysis and also focuses on the relationship between the therapist and the client, as a way to learn about how the client relates to everyone in their life.
Psychodynamic
Sandplay therapy establishes a safe and protected space, where the complexities of the client's inner world can be explored. Often young children, clients place miniature figurines in a small sandbox to express confusing feelings and inner experiences. This creates a visual representation of the client's thoughts and feelings and can reveal unconscious concerns that are inaccessible. The therapist does not interpret, interfere with, or direct the client's sand play but maintains an attitude of receptivity and acceptance, so the client can bring unconscious material into consciousness without censure.
Sandplay
Strength-based therapy is a type of positive psychotherapy and counselling that focuses more on your internal strengths and resourcefulness, and less on weaknesses, failures, and shortcomings. This focus sets up a positive mindset that helps you build on you best qualities, find your strengths, improve resilience and change worldview to one that is more positive. A positive attitude, in turn, can help your expectations of yourself and others become more reasonable.
Strength-Based
Trauma focused cognitive behavioural therapy (TF-CBT) helps people who may be experiencing post-traumatic stress after a traumatic event to return to a healthy state.
Trauma Focused

Modality

Individuals
Couples
Family

WANT TO SPEAK TO ME?

0407 223 626
odeliacarmon@hotmail.com
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ODELIA CARMON

SERVICES

Counselling

Child Therapy

Parenting Workshops

Treatments

ABOUT

Odelia Carmon is a professional psychotherapist and counsellor in Sydney. With decades of experience assisting people to conquer mental barriers and overcome strife, Odelia is uniquely qualified to help you deal with any psychological issues.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Level 1, 17-19 Knox Street, Double Bay NSW 2028

Phone Number: 0407 223 626

Email: odeliacarmon@hotmail.com

Mon – Fri, 7am – 7pm