Addiction Psychologists and Therapists in Wollongong, NSW
I help men cope with addiction, depression, stress, grief and life challenges.
Part of therapy means being heard and understood, by someone who’s walked in your shoes. But that doesn’t help without practical, helpful steps to finding your way out of where you’re stuck. That’s what I do, using various therapies that deliver weekly improvements in how you feel. I partner with my clients, to reduce that mental pain level quickly.
I help men cope with addiction, depression, stress, grief and life challenges.
Part of therapy means being heard and understood, by someone who’s walked in your shoes. But that doesn’t help without practical, helpful steps to finding your way out of where you’re stuck. That’s what I do, using various therapies that deliver weekly improvements in how you feel. I partner with my clients, to reduce that mental pain level quickly.
Other concerns in relationships such as substance use, alcohol addiction, gambling addiction, trauma and attachment concerns are also explored in our practice to help you move forward.
Counselling provides you with insight, skills and new approaches that will enable you to change unwanted patterns and ultimately build a more satisfying relationship. Tracey delivers the highest standard of counselling in a kind, supportive and non-judgemental manner and utilises cognitive mindfulness-based strategies to empower a change.
Other concerns in relationships such as substance use, alcohol addiction, gambling addiction, trauma and attachment concerns are also explored in our practice to help you move forward.
Counselling provides you with insight, skills and new approaches that will enable you to change unwanted patterns and ultimately build a more satisfying relationship. Tracey delivers the highest standard of counselling in a kind, supportive and non-judgemental manner and utilises cognitive mindfulness-based strategies to empower a change.
I am a Clinical Psychologist who can help you to develop personal insight and to address symptoms of a range of anxiety disorders; mood related issues; trauma; addiction; distress and overwhelming emotions; life stress; personality challenges and related unhelpful coping; interpersonal and relationship issues; communication skills; neurodivergent affirming.
My approach is warm, compassionate and genuine. I have experience in a range of therapies including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Schema Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Trauma Focused CBT, Cognitive Processing Therapy and Dialectical Behavioural Therapy. I understand everyone is unique and I tailor treatment to your needs.
I am a Clinical Psychologist who can help you to develop personal insight and to address symptoms of a range of anxiety disorders; mood related issues; trauma; addiction; distress and overwhelming emotions; life stress; personality challenges and related unhelpful coping; interpersonal and relationship issues; communication skills; neurodivergent affirming.
My approach is warm, compassionate and genuine. I have experience in a range of therapies including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Schema Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Trauma Focused CBT, Cognitive Processing Therapy and Dialectical Behavioural Therapy. I understand everyone is unique and I tailor treatment to your needs.
My name is Christelle Ardill and I am a Psychologist located in the idyllic seaside city of Wollongong. I've been practicing as a Psychologist for 10 years now (time flies when you're having fun) and in this time have committed to developing my professional persona in a way that let's my authentic self shine through. I pride myself on developing genuine therapeutic relationships with my clients, and take an honest and compassionate approach to therapy.
My name is Christelle Ardill and I am a Psychologist located in the idyllic seaside city of Wollongong. I've been practicing as a Psychologist for 10 years now (time flies when you're having fun) and in this time have committed to developing my professional persona in a way that let's my authentic self shine through. I pride myself on developing genuine therapeutic relationships with my clients, and take an honest and compassionate approach to therapy.
At the heart of my approach is a firm belief in an individual’s capacity for growth. I don’t use one particular therapy pathway; my method honours individuality, using a range of strategies for the best outcomes for you personally. Increasing self awareness is our biggest opportunity to grow. Most often, when we’re experiencing something challenging, the key piece of the puzzle is understanding why we’re feeling what we’re feeling, why we’re doing what we’re doing, and why we’re experiencing what we’re experiencing. This helps us change unhelpful cycles & behaviours. My approach is effective for a range of life’s challenges.
At the heart of my approach is a firm belief in an individual’s capacity for growth. I don’t use one particular therapy pathway; my method honours individuality, using a range of strategies for the best outcomes for you personally. Increasing self awareness is our biggest opportunity to grow. Most often, when we’re experiencing something challenging, the key piece of the puzzle is understanding why we’re feeling what we’re feeling, why we’re doing what we’re doing, and why we’re experiencing what we’re experiencing. This helps us change unhelpful cycles & behaviours. My approach is effective for a range of life’s challenges.
I am a calm, compassionate, and non-judgmental individual and couple therapist. I work to develop relationships of deep trust and understanding with you. I have a great deal of experience helping people overcome complex and persistent problems. I will never give up on you. I will hold the hope for you even if you are feeling discouraged or hopeless. As a nurse practitioner as well as a psychotherapist, I can prescribe psychotropic medication if needed. I can provide medicare rebates for every session because I am also a nurse practitioner.
I am a calm, compassionate, and non-judgmental individual and couple therapist. I work to develop relationships of deep trust and understanding with you. I have a great deal of experience helping people overcome complex and persistent problems. I will never give up on you. I will hold the hope for you even if you are feeling discouraged or hopeless. As a nurse practitioner as well as a psychotherapist, I can prescribe psychotropic medication if needed. I can provide medicare rebates for every session because I am also a nurse practitioner.
I am a qualified counsellor/psychotherapist based in Canberra who specialises in trauma and addiction.
I have received formal training in EMDR, CBT, Schema Therapy, ACT and Motivational Interviewing, and am a qualified Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) practitioner. I also worked as an Allen Carr’s Easyway therapist for several years (supporting individuals struggling with alcohol addiction) and have an in-depth understanding of that approach.
I am a qualified counsellor/psychotherapist based in Canberra who specialises in trauma and addiction.
I have received formal training in EMDR, CBT, Schema Therapy, ACT and Motivational Interviewing, and am a qualified Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) practitioner. I also worked as an Allen Carr’s Easyway therapist for several years (supporting individuals struggling with alcohol addiction) and have an in-depth understanding of that approach.
My main area of focus is the intimacy and relationship challenges that come with addiction recovery and healing childhood wounds. Helping individuals rebuild their relationships (with themselves and others) from the impacts of compulsive use of substances or behaviours such as codependence, internet addiction, porn addiction, sex addiction, love addiction, or gambling addiction.
My main area of focus is the intimacy and relationship challenges that come with addiction recovery and healing childhood wounds. Helping individuals rebuild their relationships (with themselves and others) from the impacts of compulsive use of substances or behaviours such as codependence, internet addiction, porn addiction, sex addiction, love addiction, or gambling addiction.
I work with individuals and families who feel stuck in cycles of addiction, trauma, mental health or ADHD, seeking deeper healing beyond surface-level coping.
I offer somatic therapy, Root Cause Therapy, Embodied Processing, and Human Design to support healing from trauma, addiction, ADHD, and mental health challenges. My trauma-informed approach helps release emotional blocks, break patterns, and build resilience, creating a safe space for growth and authentic self-connection.
I work with individuals and families who feel stuck in cycles of addiction, trauma, mental health or ADHD, seeking deeper healing beyond surface-level coping.
I offer somatic therapy, Root Cause Therapy, Embodied Processing, and Human Design to support healing from trauma, addiction, ADHD, and mental health challenges. My trauma-informed approach helps release emotional blocks, break patterns, and build resilience, creating a safe space for growth and authentic self-connection.
Offering 10 session individualised DBT programs and EMDR.
Offering 10 session individualised DBT programs and EMDR.
My therapeutic approach focuses on facilitating transformation rather than merely treating symptoms. By building a strong alliance and adopting a collaborative method, we work together to find the best path toward a value-driven life of your choosing. I strive to see the world through your eyes, using a feedback-informed approach to track progress and suggest adjustments for achieving your goals.
My therapeutic approach focuses on facilitating transformation rather than merely treating symptoms. By building a strong alliance and adopting a collaborative method, we work together to find the best path toward a value-driven life of your choosing. I strive to see the world through your eyes, using a feedback-informed approach to track progress and suggest adjustments for achieving your goals.
Klaudia is a highly experienced Psychologist with nearly 20 years in the mental health sector, including 15 years as a practicing clinician. Klaudia supports you in understanding how past experiences and unresolved traumas may be shaping your current challenges. Her focus is on helping you uncover and shift deeply ingrained patterns through trauma reprocessing. Klaudia provides a safe, compassionate, yet gently challenging space, encouraging meaningful reflection, emotional safety, and long-term transformation.
Klaudia is a highly experienced Psychologist with nearly 20 years in the mental health sector, including 15 years as a practicing clinician. Klaudia supports you in understanding how past experiences and unresolved traumas may be shaping your current challenges. Her focus is on helping you uncover and shift deeply ingrained patterns through trauma reprocessing. Klaudia provides a safe, compassionate, yet gently challenging space, encouraging meaningful reflection, emotional safety, and long-term transformation.
I am an Accredited Mental Health SW with over two decades of Counselling and Psychotherapy experience, I provide compassionate, client-centered counselling tailored to each individual's unique needs. My approach is trauma-informed, grounded in empathy, active listening, and evidence-based techniques to support personal growth, resilience, and well-being.
I am an Accredited Mental Health SW with over two decades of Counselling and Psychotherapy experience, I provide compassionate, client-centered counselling tailored to each individual's unique needs. My approach is trauma-informed, grounded in empathy, active listening, and evidence-based techniques to support personal growth, resilience, and well-being.
Our counselling service is open to all and designed around you. We use evidence-based approaches and regularly measure outcomes so you can see what’s working and feel confident in your progress. Sessions are person-centred, we move at your pace whilst also facing into challenges, focus on what matters most to you, and work together on clear, achievable goals. If you’re ready for support that is respectful, inclusive, challenging and grounded in what the research shows really helps, reach out to arrange a brief conversation or schedule your session.
Our counselling service is open to all and designed around you. We use evidence-based approaches and regularly measure outcomes so you can see what’s working and feel confident in your progress. Sessions are person-centred, we move at your pace whilst also facing into challenges, focus on what matters most to you, and work together on clear, achievable goals. If you’re ready for support that is respectful, inclusive, challenging and grounded in what the research shows really helps, reach out to arrange a brief conversation or schedule your session.
We all experience times in our lives when we need someone to truly listen—someone who can offer empathy, understanding, and support as we safely explore the challenges we face. Life can feel like a rollercoaster, especially during periods when everything seems overwhelming.
Fiona’s aim at Sacred Space Counselling is to be that supportive presence for you. She offers a safe, warm, and respectful space where you can openly explore what has brought you to counselling and begin navigating your path forward.
We all experience times in our lives when we need someone to truly listen—someone who can offer empathy, understanding, and support as we safely explore the challenges we face. Life can feel like a rollercoaster, especially during periods when everything seems overwhelming.
Fiona’s aim at Sacred Space Counselling is to be that supportive presence for you. She offers a safe, warm, and respectful space where you can openly explore what has brought you to counselling and begin navigating your path forward.
I specialise in: Trauma/PTSD/CPTSD, neurodivergence/ADHD, attachment, relationships, mood disturbance, stress & burnout, substance use/ addiction.
I’m a Clinical Psychologist based in Wollongong. I work with adults via in-person and remote sessions.
I use evidence-based therapies including EMDR, Schema Therapy, CPT, CBT, DBT and ACT. My approach is tailored to your needs, working at a pace that feels manageable and respectful of your nervous system and lived experience.
I specialise in: Trauma/PTSD/CPTSD, neurodivergence/ADHD, attachment, relationships, mood disturbance, stress & burnout, substance use/ addiction.
I’m a Clinical Psychologist based in Wollongong. I work with adults via in-person and remote sessions.
I use evidence-based therapies including EMDR, Schema Therapy, CPT, CBT, DBT and ACT. My approach is tailored to your needs, working at a pace that feels manageable and respectful of your nervous system and lived experience.
DFS is able to successfully deliver therapy and supports to clients for stress, depression, anxiety, anger management, PTSD and trauma, addictions, PMS, and any other concerns you may have.
Direct Focus Solutions (DFS) proudly works with clients of all ages and abilities to support them across their lifespans. Our multidisciplinary team of allied health practitioners is able to deliver individually-tailored services for clients who approach us to receive psychology, counselling, occupational therapy, speech pathology, social work, support work, and much more. In addition to private clients, DFS is an NDIS registered provider and is also able to fully support NDIS participants in addition to clients requiring services under Medicare, Victims Services, the DVA, and many other streams.
DFS is able to successfully deliver therapy and supports to clients for stress, depression, anxiety, anger management, PTSD and trauma, addictions, PMS, and any other concerns you may have.
Direct Focus Solutions (DFS) proudly works with clients of all ages and abilities to support them across their lifespans. Our multidisciplinary team of allied health practitioners is able to deliver individually-tailored services for clients who approach us to receive psychology, counselling, occupational therapy, speech pathology, social work, support work, and much more. In addition to private clients, DFS is an NDIS registered provider and is also able to fully support NDIS participants in addition to clients requiring services under Medicare, Victims Services, the DVA, and many other streams.
I have particular counselling experience working within drug and alcohol rehabilitations, community health care settings, gambling support, and delivery of services within mental health hospitals.
I am a registered psychologist with experience supporting people through a number of different concerns. I consider your needs, and aim to tailor therapy to be relevant to yourself. I am motivated to see people engage with their values, connect to the world around them, and build the action that contributes positively to life. It can be challenging to explore your current difficulties, so I appreciate the steps you have taken to better your life. I hope by working together with openness and respect, you might see the change you are after.
I have particular counselling experience working within drug and alcohol rehabilitations, community health care settings, gambling support, and delivery of services within mental health hospitals.
I am a registered psychologist with experience supporting people through a number of different concerns. I consider your needs, and aim to tailor therapy to be relevant to yourself. I am motivated to see people engage with their values, connect to the world around them, and build the action that contributes positively to life. It can be challenging to explore your current difficulties, so I appreciate the steps you have taken to better your life. I hope by working together with openness and respect, you might see the change you are after.
Rani is a registered counsellor and family therapist with over a decade of experience helping couples, individuals and adolescents. She works with communication, conflict, intimacy, disconnection, betrayal, affairs, forgiveness, boundaries, self-expression, and emotional regulation. Using a compassionate, non-judgmental approach, Rani creates a safe and collaborative space where clients can explore emotions, rebuild trust, repair relationship ruptures, and strengthen connection with themselves and each other. Without taking sides she supports healthier relationships through evidence-based, trauma-informed, and relational approaches.
Rani is a registered counsellor and family therapist with over a decade of experience helping couples, individuals and adolescents. She works with communication, conflict, intimacy, disconnection, betrayal, affairs, forgiveness, boundaries, self-expression, and emotional regulation. Using a compassionate, non-judgmental approach, Rani creates a safe and collaborative space where clients can explore emotions, rebuild trust, repair relationship ruptures, and strengthen connection with themselves and each other. Without taking sides she supports healthier relationships through evidence-based, trauma-informed, and relational approaches.
Charlotte is a down-to-earth, Wollongong & Sydney-based psychologist. She empowers people to take responsibility for their mental health, find their wisdom & guide them towards the life they want to lead. Charlotte’s approach is holistic, she bridges Western science with Eastern healing techniques. Known for her bold approach, she is able to see the best in people. Charlotte targets the emotional, cognitive, physical, behavioural, relational & spiritual levels of healing. Her approach is not a band-aid fix. She gets the full picture of your health and delves beneath the surface to support you to make lifelong sustainable changes.
Charlotte is a down-to-earth, Wollongong & Sydney-based psychologist. She empowers people to take responsibility for their mental health, find their wisdom & guide them towards the life they want to lead. Charlotte’s approach is holistic, she bridges Western science with Eastern healing techniques. Known for her bold approach, she is able to see the best in people. Charlotte targets the emotional, cognitive, physical, behavioural, relational & spiritual levels of healing. Her approach is not a band-aid fix. She gets the full picture of your health and delves beneath the surface to support you to make lifelong sustainable changes.
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Addiction Therapists
What is the best therapy for addiction?
Addiction treatment will be tailored to the individual. People seeking help for addiction—whether with a psychotherapist, in an outpatient clinic, or in a residential program—should expect to engage in multiple types of treatments, sometimes including medication. For anyone recovering from addiction, avoiding situations in which one has typically used a substance is essential, as is the support of close connections. Since substance use disorders tend to co-occur with underlying mental health conditions such as anxiety or depression, those must also be addressed as part of any recovery plan.
How long does therapy for addiction take?
There is no set timeline for recovery from addiction. Patients and their families should expect the work to last several months, if not longer. Residential treatment programs may be based on a stay of 30, 60, or 90 days, with continuing work after release, but only about 1 percent of people are treated in such facilities. Ceasing use is just the first step; therapy to help maintain abstinence and effect behavior change must follow. The process of recovery, neuroscience has shown, involves brain cells recovering the capacity to respond to natural sources of reward and restore control over the impulse to use. Another definition of recovery is restoring voluntary control over one’s substance use and retaking all of one’s previous responsibilities.
How effective is drug addiction treatment?
Substance use disorders are treatable and remission is achievable for many who seek recovery; by some estimates, more than three-quarters of people who become addicted to alcohol or drugs recover. But that success rarely occurs quickly or on a set timeline; relapse is not only common, but many therapists and clinicians view it as a normal part of the process—not always a sign that a person has returned to addiction, but a signal that their treatment should be adjusted to help them regain control. Overall, research suggests, five years after the end of substance use, one’s risk of relapse is no greater than that of others who had not faced addiction. Other experts believe that complete abstinence is not the only measure of recovery, and that, through effective treatment, many people can learn to control their use.
How can you get addiction treatment for someone?
The most important factor in recovery from addiction is widely understood to be an individual’s commitment to change. For that reason,“interventions” in which friends and family gather to urge or force someone to begin immediate treatment often backfire; even when such efforts do lead someone to begin treatment, they may be less likely to stay than those who are self-driven. Still, family members can play an important role in supporting an individual who seeks help and can take part in family therapy as one element of a loved one’s treatment.