Peter Jones

Psychologist

Biography

Peter is an Eastern Suburbs based psychologist that works with adult clients across the spectrum of life issues and experiences. He is a compassionate, engaged and grounded practitioner who fundamentally believes that personal change and transformation is possible. It may not always be easy, straightforward or clear, but the belief in the possibility of healing and growth is a prerequisite. When both people hold this view, therapy is a process of discovery and unfolding understanding, leading to measurable improvements. Therapy is a form of collaboration in the pursuit of a client’s best interest.

As a psychologist with over 30 years standing, Peter has worked extensively in a range of professional practice environments. These include individual therapy, occupational rehabilitation, couples/relationships, workplace experiences including stress and adjustment to new roles (role analysis), life transitions (loss, ageing, career, separation/divorce), trauma & grief, leadership development/coaching and military psychology practice. He has studied and practiced a range of evidence-based therapeutic approaches. He works from the Edgecliff office.

  • Life transitions including retirement and career changes
  • Life crises
  • Workplace relationships
  • Building resilience and assertiveness

Attributes

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Compassionate

Suffering is a central experience of living a human life. Often, we can forget this fact and become convinced that others have it better than we do. To cope, we each develop complex strategies for separating from the experience of pain in our lives. Over time, these can exacerbate the suffering we experience. Compassion for ourselves and others allows us to relax these defences and to move toward these deeper places in ourselves.

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Insightful

Therapy provides different ways of thinking about, working with and understanding what is happening in our selves and in our lives. These will often challenge you to think differently and to let go of old, established ways of seeing your personal world and those others with whom you are in relationship.

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Challenging

A primary challenge which clients face, is that of staying in contact with their experience, in a way that enables the healing to occur. The therapist can provide a supportive context in which that can occur.

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Courage

We each need to bring courage to turn toward our suffering and to learn how to hold, understand, explore our experience, in order to heal. The therapeutic relationship serves as a direct support & an active collaboration for such inquiry and discovery.

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