Sonia Smuts
Accepting Referrals:
NO
["Clinical Psychologist"]
Regulation Agency:
AHPRA Psychology Board (Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency)
Languages Spoken: ["English","Afrikaans"]
Douro House Psychological Health Care
(Private Practice)
Profile
Video of spoken profile
Audio of spoken profile
Hello. My name is Sonia.
I am passionate about doing whatever is within my power to protect children; and to help make sure that adults who got hurt by the very people who should have protected them when they were vulnerable, get the kind of help they need when they ask for it.
To this end, I am a clinical psychologist in private practice working primarily with adult survivors of complex childhood trauma. I also started the Perth Complex Trauma Mental Health Professionals Network, and served as founding chairperson for Complex Trauma WA for the first few years.
Currently, my practice is switching from an individual psychotherapy service to a complex-trauma supervision and training practice, so that I can support more service providers to feel competent and confident working with survivors in non-triggering, helpful ways.
As I am unable to guarantee seeing the work through with new clients, I’ve had to close my books and I am unable to accept new referrals.
Please feel free to still contact me if you are looking for a trauma-trained psychotherapist. I have compiled a list of helpful resources (in addition to the ones on this website), and would be happy to share this with you if you think that might be helpful.
I love my work, and I feel privileged to work with the people I do. I have the utmost respect for the tremendous courage, tenacity, and resourcefulness of every survivor of childhood complex trauma, irrespective of what you’ve had to do to survive. You can trust that I do what I need to do to look after myself too, so that you don’t have to.
Contact Details and Location
0437883465
http://psychologistsinperth.com.au
Services
Theraputic Approaches
["Eye-Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)","Attachment-based Therapy","Body-oriented psychotherapy","Trauma-based narrative therapy","Skills training in Affective and Interpersonal Regulation","Psychodynamic psychotherapy","Humanistic psychotherapy","Other"]
Can help with
["Attachment trauma","Child sexual abuse","Incest","Childhood neglect","Dissociation (including Dissociative Identity Disorder)","Non-offending pedophiles","Parenting issues"]
Client Types
["Men","Women","Lesbian","Gay","Young adults (age 16-25)","Migrants"]
Consultation Types
["In person","Online\/Video conference"]
Fees
Fees
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Fee Reduction Options
["Reduced fees by negotiation"]
Benefit Schemes
["Medicare","Private Health Insurance","National Disability Insurance Scheme"]
Access
Business Hours
[{"day":"Monday","daylabel":"Mon","fromtime":"09:00","fromtimelabel":"9:00 am","totime":"15:00","totimelabel":"3:00 pm"},{"day":"Tuesday","daylabel":"Tue","fromtime":"09:00","fromtimelabel":"9:00 am","totime":"15:00","totimelabel":"3:00 pm"},{"day":"Wednesday","daylabel":"Wed","fromtime":"09:00","fromtimelabel":"9:00 am","totime":"15:00","totimelabel":"3:00 pm"},{"day":"Thursday","daylabel":"Thu","fromtime":"09:00","fromtimelabel":"9:00 am","totime":"18:00","totimelabel":"6:00 pm"}]
Public Transport Access
Train: 500m-1km
High frequency bus: <200m
Low frequency bus: 200m-500m
Plan your journey
Treatment Space
Front of the Building
Reception Area
Waiting Room
Treatment Room
Interesting Feature
Out the Window
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Therapy Animal
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["Clinical Psychologist"]
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Regulation Agency:
AHPRA Psychology Board (Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency)
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Languages Spoken: ["English","Afrikaans"]
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Douro House Psychological Health Care
(Private Practice)
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Video of spoken profile
Audio of spoken profile
Hello. My name is Sonia.
I am passionate about doing whatever is within my power to protect children; and to help make sure that adults who got hurt by the very people who should have protected them when they were vulnerable, get the kind of help they need when they ask for it.
To this end, I am a clinical psychologist in private practice working primarily with adult survivors of complex childhood trauma. I also started the Perth Complex Trauma Mental Health Professionals Network, and served as founding chairperson for Complex Trauma WA for the first few years.
Currently, my practice is switching from an individual psychotherapy service to a complex-trauma supervision and training practice, so that I can support more service providers to feel competent and confident working with survivors in non-triggering, helpful ways.
As I am unable to guarantee seeing the work through with new clients, I’ve had to close my books and I am unable to accept new referrals.
Please feel free to still contact me if you are looking for a trauma-trained psychotherapist. I have compiled a list of helpful resources (in addition to the ones on this website), and would be happy to share this with you if you think that might be helpful.
I love my work, and I feel privileged to work with the people I do. I have the utmost respect for the tremendous courage, tenacity, and resourcefulness of every survivor of childhood complex trauma, irrespective of what you’ve had to do to survive. You can trust that I do what I need to do to look after myself too, so that you don’t have to.
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0437883465
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http://psychologistsinperth.com.au
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| Train: 500m-1km |
| High frequency bus: <200m |
| Low frequency bus: 200m-500m |
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