My Approach
Time for positive change
Time for positive change
Time for positive change
Bariatric Psychology empowers adults and adolescents to make long term change with a strong emphasis on early intervention to increase emotional resilience and promote positive outcomes. Michele :
• Works as part of a multidisciplinary team alongside medical professionals.
• Devises and implements appropriate programs of treatment, inc
Bariatric Psychology empowers adults and adolescents to make long term change with a strong emphasis on early intervention to increase emotional resilience and promote positive outcomes. Michele :
• Works as part of a multidisciplinary team alongside medical professionals.
• Devises and implements appropriate programs of treatment, including therapy, psycho education, counselling, in collaboration with allied health colleagues.
• Evidenced based therapy for difficulties relating to anxiety, depression, addictions, social and interpersonal problems, body image difficulties, eating disorders and difficulties, adjustment disorders, complications post bariatric surgery
• Develops and evaluates service provision and provides consultation to other Health Professionals , encouraging a psychological approach in their work.
Time for positive change
Time for positive change
Michele utilises evidence-based therapeutic interventions that are helpful for many mental health issues.
These approaches include:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- Mindfullness
- Emotion Focused Therapy
- Solution Focused Therapy
- Positive Psychology
- Psychoeducation
Long term support
Time for positive change
Long term support
I passionately believe that patients must understand, accept and acknowledge that bariatric surgery is a collaborative approach. Surgery is an aid that enables patients to make lifestyle and behavioural changes.
My role is not a gatekeeper role in Assessing to exclude patients having surgery but rather to conduct a battery of Psychologi
I passionately believe that patients must understand, accept and acknowledge that bariatric surgery is a collaborative approach. Surgery is an aid that enables patients to make lifestyle and behavioural changes.
My role is not a gatekeeper role in Assessing to exclude patients having surgery but rather to conduct a battery of Psychological assessments in the pre operative phase to assist in identifying individual strengths and weaknesses and then providing support, psycho education and if required, evidence based intervention. This approach enables patients to cope effectively with the transitions and make and sustain lifestyle and behavioural change to not only lose the weight, but most importantly develop skills to maintain the weight loss in the long term.