Experienced Psychologist in Cooroy & Gympie

Individual clients often seek help with relationships, self-esteem, personal growth, sexual identity and other issues. Common issues are depression, anxiety, stress management and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

Tony has experience in counselling people with issues related to sexual abuse, chronic infection and terminal illness, especially cancer, HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C, drug and alcohol abuse, grief and loss (including bereavement), diet motivation and eating disorders. He has developed a reputation and a rapport for working with members and ex-members of the defence forces and emergency services.

 Many couples have misunderstandings and problems during the course of their lives together. Couples may be heterosexual or same sex, married, living together, or living separately.

Couples therapy and counselling involves any two people who are experiencing difficult issues. If you feel like your relationship is experiencing a communication breakdown or you are having difficulties in keeping your relationship together, please speak to one of our experts today. We can help you and your partner form the strong, loving and healthy relationship you both deserve.

Our psychologists in Cooroy offer professional group therapy for families, businesses, and individuals. Families seek help on a variety of issues especially parenting and adolescent behavioural issues also.

Group counselling requires everyone to feel safe and comfortable and our experts provide a secure space where people can express their problems in a blame free and healthy atmosphere.

Here at Serenity Psychological Services, we pride ourselves on helping create results that leave all participants in the session happier and healthier.

”Gestalt” is a German word that does not have a direct translation but means wholeness, oneness, unity, and togetherness. Here at Serenity Psychological Services, we like to see the “whole picture” for our clients, rather than being limited to specific issues. Seeing the bigger picture usually helps to clarify what is happening in your life and hence the issue often changes when we understand how it fits into the greater context.

The methods that Tony uses in counselling work rely very much with what is happening in the “here and now”. Tony uses the immediate situation as a guide to the greater situation and he tries to promote awareness as the key to understanding and choice. You will develop an awareness about your feelings, thoughts, behaviour and environment, which may include some of the influences in your life past, present and future.

With awareness comes understanding, with understanding comes a choice about behaviour and with the choice comes the change. Tony uses a range of techniques and methods that are very much influenced by his Gestalt Therapy training but also encompass other strategies and techniques.

Tony Collins treats all clients as unique and adapts his methods to whichever is most helpful to the client. His guiding principle is that it has to work for the client because they are the one that is important.

Clinical hypnotherapy is offered for a range of concerns. About 10% of people cannot be hypnotised, about 10% are highly hypnotisable, and the rest fall somewhere in between. Tony uses a deep relaxation technique to access your inner mind to help with:

Smoking Cessation, Self Esteem, Memory, Stress Management, Anxiety, Phobias, Depression, Weight Management, Sleep Problems