Jodie Riemann
MPsych(Ed&Dev).MAPS
Senior Psychologist
Jodie works predominantly with adults and young adults (ages 16 yrs +) and has counselling experience across a number of areas including:
Anxiety, phobias and over-thinking, Depression, depressed mood and grief, Stress management, Developing deeper insight into values, thoughts, feelings and behaviours and self-acceptance, Adjustment to change and transitions, Relationships, relationship dynamics and communication concerns, Managing distress during relationship breakdowns, separation and family estrangement, Behaviour change, breaking habits and developing new ones, Vocational counselling including loss of employment, redundancy, return to work, and career guidance.
Jodie has over 20 years’ experience working as a registered Psychologist. Jodie graduated with a Masters-level qualification in Educational and Developmental Psychology from the University of Queensland and has completed the Supervisor Training & Approval Program (STAP).
An approved Medicare provider, Jodie prefers to use a mixture evidence-based therapeutic modalities. She personalises her approach to best suit her clients’ individual needs, preferences and values. The methods she utilises most and has formal training in are:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Mindfulness
- Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)
Solutions-focused Therapy - Motivational Interviewing (MI)
Gottman Marital Therapy (Lvl 1)
Jodie is a warm, down-to-earth practitioner who lives locally and enjoys working with a diverse range of clients.
My style is supportive and calm. I’m keen to support clients in the areas of their life that they want support in and NOT what I choose to focus on. In this regard I am client led and respectful of their choices. I am here to be supportive and led by your needs and intentions and not prescriptive. I will of course point out any potential links/connections/consequences to be aware of, but the power and decision is with the client in terms of what they want to choose.
My focus of counselling is to ultimately raise a client’s self-awareness and insight and in doing so, help individuals have greater self-acceptance. From this I help clients to work ‘with themself’ rather than trying to become someone they are not.
I enjoy supporting clients who are on the precipice of or in the middle of navigate transition and adjustment phases throughout life such as relationship breakdowns, leaving or starting new jobs or careers, entering new phases of development (ie adolescent to adult, student to employee, menopausal).
As I specialised in Educational and Developmental psychology I’m keen to work with client’s across the lifespan and as life is always seasonal, always changing and transitioning, it is a good fit that I love working with clients around change and deliberate disruption.
My core message to my clients in therapy is:– Know yourself; use that information about yourself to assist you with creating options; give yourself the freedom to choose which option best fits you in terms of your values, priorities and goals; and put that decision into an action plan.
‘I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately’ is a line of a poem that has always stuck with me. I am a strong believer that everyone has a right to make their own choices.
I think it’s very important for a person psychologically to see their choices in a situation.
If we feel helpless and out of control our mental health is at risk of distress. Therefore, helping to identify choices and action plans is empowering and assists in alleviating that distress.
Further to this, it is important ot me to not label choices as right or wrong. They are simply our choices.
Regular exercise, bike riding, peloton workouts, fresh air, time by the water, facials
Traveling, sightseeing, and trying new foods
Try to regularly monitor how much I ‘need’ to do and spread those ‘to do’s’ out so that I’m not overloaded. Make sure I have some ‘nothing to do’ times to balance myself out and just let my mind and body stop so that I don’t get stuck in ‘go go go’ mode all the time and burn out.