Dr. Walsh provides confidential therapy for adolescents, adults, couples and families, and professional recruitment and development services for executive and corporate sectors.

Services for all clients are strictly confidential.

Support for Individuals, Couples and Families

Therapy services can be accessed privately or be covered by Medicare when referred by a GP under a Mental Health Care Plan. (Please refer to the Fees & Medicare section of this website for more information)

Clients can schedule as many or as few therapy sessions as they’d like.

During the first session, Dr. Walsh will seek to thoroughly understand the individual, couple or family’s concerns before recommending an appropriate treatment plan.

It’s also important for clients to ask questions – in order to feel comfortable with the course of therapy before proceeding with treatment.

If at any stage clients decide to terminate therapy, Dr. Walsh will recommend alternate methods of support that might be more appropriate.

Areas of focus for a treatment plan may include but are not limited to:

  • Anxiety: reducing worry, fear, phobias and intrusive thoughts.
  • Depression: improving mood, energy and general interest in life; working through grief.
  • Eating Disorders: understanding the underlying causes, improving quality of life, removing barriers to recovery.
  • Family therapy: Improving communication, resolving conflict, strengthening parent/child relationships, resolving behavioural and emotional issues, parental training.
  • Life satisfaction: identifying personal values and creating direction in life.
  • Performance growth: Focusing on direction; removing barriers to achieving goals.
  • Personal growth: improving self-esteem and self-acceptance
  • Sex and relationships: Improving communication, connection and intimacy; reducing conflict; building stronger relationships, resolving conflict
  • Sex and sexuality: sexual identity, low libido/desire and mismatched libido/desire, anxiety regarding sex, sexual pain, erectile dysfunction, premature ejaculation, orgasmic difficulties, and paraphilias.
  • Stress: managing work-life balance, coping with stress or bullying (in the workplace or other), adjusting to change, managing transitions.
  • Trauma: understanding the impact of trauma, living with aftermath, healing and moving on.

Professional Recruitment and Development

Professional recruitment and employee development services including Psychometric Assessments have been a core element of Dr. Walsh’s private practice since its inception. His credibility and experience in this space extends over a 25 year period.

Psychometric Assessment can play an integral role in the recruitment process in terms of identifying if an individual is a good fit for the role and the organisation.

Assessment can also be a key component in terms of developing existing employees by highlighting areas for improvement and identifying employees who are better suited for career progression.

Utilising the services of a private practice Psychologist with experience in recruitment and development is often a more cost-effective approach compared to hiring larger firms specialising in Human Resource services.

Professional recruitment and development services may include but are not limited to:

  • Assessments for individual selection and role competency
  • Assessments for development (for training and/or progression purposes)
  • Executive team & board reviews
  • Psychometric tests for personality, critical thinking, verbal, numerical and abstract reasoning skills.

Organisations Dr. Walsh has worked with

  • Arco Coal Australia Pty Ltd
  • Arnotts Snack Food Company
  • Bradley Pty Ltd
  • Brisbane City Council
  • Brisbane Water
  • Bureau Of Sugar Experiments Station
  • Burellen Company Stockbrokers
  • Bushell & Cornish Pty Ltd
  • Coastline Foundries
  • Codan Pty Ltd
  • CRA Advanced Technology Division
  • CRA Pty Ltd
  • Curragh Qld Mining Pty Ltd
  • Defiance Mills
  • Eastern Engines
  • Echo Bay Mines
  • Elite Consulting Group
  • Epic Group Limited
  • Five Star Homes Brisbane
  • Gordonstone Coal Management
  • Gulf Conveyor Systems P/L
  • Hervey Bay City Council
  • Ideal Electrical
  • Incitec Ltd
  • inXcess Pty Ltd
  • Johnson Farm Management
  • Linfor Transport
  • Mar Consulting
  • Mark Baker Pty Ltd
  • MDN Consulting Pty Ltd
  • Minproc Engineers Pty Ltd
  • Mitre Ten
  • Mobil Oil Australia Pty Ltd
  • Mount Isa Mines
  • Oakey Creek Pty Ltd
  • PA Consulting Pty Ltd
  • Paradise Foods
  • Perpetual Trustees
  • Pilbara Works
  • Pioneer Building Products (Qld) Pty Ltd
  • QCL Pty Ltd
  • Regal Bakeries Pty Ltd
  • Richardson Pacific Limited
  • Royal Queensland Golf Club
  • Santos Ltd
  • Smorgans Arc
  • SPC Pty Ltd
  • Stott And Underwood Pty Ltd
  • Supastock Feeds Pty Ltd
  • Taralba Australia
  • Tarong Energy
  • Townsville Transport Services
  • Tubemakers Pty Ltd
  • Universal Transport Operations
  • Vytec Pty Ltd
  • Weston Baked Foods Pty Ltd
  • Wilkinson Sword
  • Wonderrest Mattress Makers
  • World Exposition 1988