Dr Claudine Martijn
The unexamined life misses the opportunity for movement & growth, learning & forgiveness.
(Adapted from Irvin Yalom).
— Dr Claudine Martijn
General Information
Clinical Psychologist
Days: M, T
Cost: (Medicare rebates available), below APS recommended rate.
Provider Number: 2629505H
Adult individuals
Older Adults
Psychologists for Clinical Supervision &mentoring
Perinatal Mental Health, Mood disorders, Anxiety disorders, Trauma, Grief, Bereavement, Death and dying, comorbid physical injury/illness & mental health, Adjustment difficulties (due to various life events), Navigating a loved one’s mental health journey.
Style of Therapy
Direct, passionate about equality, considered, analytical, challenging, endlessly inquiring, patient, able to sit with challenges.
Modalities: CBT, Schema Therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy.
Things You & Claudine Might Address:
Perinatal Mental Health: Diagnosis of various MH conditions presenting in the perinatal period (i.e. pre conception, conception, pregnancy, up to 2 years following birth). People present with a vast variety of challenges in this period from difficulties conceiving, the challenging IVF process, miscarriage, fetal death, stillbirth, coping in early stages of parenting, severe mental health presentations eg psychosis, severe depression. Obstetricians/Gynecologists often refer clients for therapy who may be at risk of a post-partum depression based on screening tools.
Comorbid physical and mental health challenges: assisting people to understand the role of psychological symptoms in the presentation and manifestation of physical health conditions, and develop psychological treatment plans that involve other specialists treating the physical conditions.
Trauma presentations, including persons who have been involved in military service, witnessed or been a part of trauma in the course of their work (eg Journalists, Medical Doctors), have histories of traumatic childhoods leading to psychological disorders and challenges in adulthood, with the aim of developing a repair in their beliefs about safety, intimacy, trust in others and the world around them, and allow for a healthy integration of their life experiences into who they are now.
Grief and bereavement in various presentations, from the death of a loved one, the diagnosis of a life-limiting illness, separation and divorce, adjustment to different stages of life.
Clients presenting with symptoms of a mood disorder (MDD, MDE etc) and anxiety disorders (OCD, GAD etc), on referral from a GP/clinician or self-referral, to ascertain the primary conditions requiring treatment, and developing a treatment plan with the client, with inclusion of a psychiatrist the such a plan if medications might be indicated.
Clinical Psychologist
The direction and content of therapy is based on identifying the barriers that keep you from realising where you want 'to be' and how you want to feel. Begingining with an assessment interview/discussion to identify any clinically significant mental health symptoms/disorders, we thereafter devise your therapy on validated treatments known to alleviate those barriers that are keeping you “stuck”. The therapeutic relationship is of primary importance to me, as it invariably is the difference between “major change” and ‘tinkering’
What Claudine’s About
Claudine has spent the majority of her working life as a Clinical Psychologist in hospitals and other clinical settings. This background, starting in the dramatic work in the Mental Health Crisis Team, and then finding her way into Consultation Liaison Psychiatry at St Vincents Hospital, provided a wealth of experience with people facing huge challenges in their health and mortality (think Palliative Care, Transplant patients, heart attacks, dialysis and the like). Stepping away from the hospital, Claudine took her experience in mental and physical health into the world of Perinatal Psychology. Again - huge challenges in the physical and psychological domains of peoples lives.
Experiencing someone coming to therapy not just wanting but needing for things to change, and being a part of the process toward easing that pain or struggle, is such a unique experience, and one that is a privilege to be a part of.
Credentials
BA (psych) University of Sydney
Post Grad Dip (Psych) Macquarie University
Master of Science, University of Sydney
Doctorate of Clinical Psychologist, University of Sydney
Member of the Australian Psychological Society
