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Claudia Rothhaas is a Clinical Psychologist in Sydney with over 15 years of professional experience and training in Germany and Australia. She has worked in various clinical fields and settings in both countries. Claudia
is fully registered with all relevant Australian and German professional bodies and can provide medicare rebates.
"I provide professional psychological treatment, counselling and coaching for individuals within a confidential, empathic and respectful environment" (coaching > / therapy/counselling >)
"My psychological approach is solution focused, caring and sensitive to your individual needs" (my approach >)
"I am dedicated to providing efficient psychological services so that you can achieve the changes in your life that you desire"
"I provide gentle support and specialist advice to family members, partners and friends of people with addiction/pathological gambling or mental health problems"
Personal and executive coaching:
- Enhancement of management and leadership competencies
- Conflict coaching/conflict resolution
- Increase of creativity, motivation and professional performance
- Life and career planning
- Change management/transition coaching
- Life Coaching
- Cultural coaching
- Health and wellness coaching
- Cognitive Behavior therapy sydney
- Counselling Sydney CBD
Clinical Areas of Expertise:
- Substance Use Disorders (Nicotine and Quitting smoking, Alcohol, Prescription Medication, Cannabis, Amphetamines, Ecstasy, Cocaine, Opiates and Hallucinogens) (therapy/counselling >)
- Pathological Gambling (therapy/counselling >)
- Adjustment Disorder/Life transition issues (therapy/counselling >)
- Anxiety Disorders (e.g. Phobias, PTSD, OCD)
- Mood Disorders (e.g. Depression Counselling , Bipolar Disorder)
- Mental illness (e.g. Schizophrenia)
- Physical and Sexual Abuse/Self-Harm
- Relationships/Marriage problems
- Life crisis
- Grief and Loss/Bereavement
- Trauma
- Eating Disorder Counselling (Anorexia, Bulimia)
- Stress Management
- Self-Esteem/ Assertiveness Training
- Social Skills Training
- Gambling Counselling
Please feel free to browse through my site and to contact me with any questions you may have.
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About Claudia
Claudia Rothhaas is a German-Australian trained Clinical Psychologist with 15 years experience of clinical and management work in public and private health settings in Germany and in Australia. Claudia has a
degree in psychology from the University of Cologne (Germany). Upon arrival in Australia in 2001 her degree was acknowledged by the Australian Psychological Society (APS) to be equivalent to an Australian Masters degree in Clinical Psychology. Claudia is fully registered with the NSW Psychologists Registration Board. She is a full member of the Australian Psychological Society, the APS College of Clinical Psychologists as well as the German Professional Association of Psychologists (Berufsverband Deutscher Psychologinnen und Psychologen). (therapy/counselling )
Claudia provides specialist psychological therapy services under the Medicare Benefits Schedule offering medicare rebates and she can register with all the major private health funds. For more information please see Fees + Rebates (Fees & Rebates >). Claudia provides empathic bi-lingual evidence based and caring treatment that is sensitive to your individual needs.
Claudia will provide a professional, caring and supportive atmo- sphere within a safe and confidential environment. She works with adults in individual sessions. Although eclectic in the therapeutic approaches and strategies she may use, Claudia mainly provides Solution Focused Therapy (my approach >). Focussing on the present and the future Claudia will collaboratively concentrate on potentials rather than on weaknesses, so that problems will be addressed solution oriented. In this way Claudia is dedicated to providing efficient services so that you can achieve the changes in your life that you desire.
"Apart from my clinical experience I have gained several years of management experience in Germany and Australia. In addition to that I have worked as mentor, as a Consultant for colleagues and other health professionals, as a clinical supervisor and as a trainer for students."
"I offer external and confidential personal and executive coaching in an individual setting. Together we will focus in a solution- and resource oriented manner on your professional role and on your current work related queries." (coaching >)
Another primary area of interest and expertise for Claudia is the treatment of Pathological Gambling (therapy/counselling >).
Not only does Claudia provide effective specialist treatment to clients who identify with the above clinical conditions but she also provides gentle support and specialist advice to family members, partners and friends of people with addiction/pathological gambling or mental health problems.
It is widely recognised in the professional field that Substance Use Disorders as well as Pathological Gambling usually go hand in hand with other, sometimes underlying conditions that become more
apparent once the substance use/pathological gambling has been addressed.
Claudia has sound clinical experience in treating the listed conditions should they arise:
- Substance Use Disorders (Nicotine and Quitting smoking, Alcohol, Prescription Medication, Cannabis, Amphetamines, Ecstasy, Cocaine, Opiates and Hallucinogens) (therapy/counselling >)
- Pathological Gambling (therapy/counselling >)
- Adjustment Disorder/Life transition issues (therapy/counselling >)
- Anxiety Disorders (e.g. Phobias, PTSD, OCD)
- Mood Disorders (e.g. Depression Counselling , Bipolar Disorder)
- Mental illness (e.g. Schizophrenia)
- Physical and Sexual Abuse/Self-Harm
- Relationships/Marriage problems
- Life crisis
- Grief and Loss/Bereavement
- Trauma
- Eating Disorder Counselling (Anorexia, Bulimia)
- Stress Management
- Self-Esteem/ Assertiveness Training
- Social Skills Training
- Cognitive behavior therapy sydney
- Counselling Sydney CBD
I provide efficient and evidence based personal and executive coaching in the following areas:
- Enhancement of management and leadership competencies
- Conflict coaching/conflict resolution
- Increase of creativity, motivation and professional performanc
- Life and career planning
- Change management/transition coaching
- Life Coaching
- Cultural coaching
- Health and wellness coaching
Solution Focused Therapy
" Although eclectic in my therapeutic approach I am dedicated to providing Solution Focused Therapy that is sensitive to your individual needs. Combining evidence based strategies (e.g. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) with a solution-focused approach we will collaboratively focus on your resources in the here and now in order to solve current problems in a solution oriented manner. Focussing predominantly on problems and their point of origin somewhere in the past can weaken your potential of personal growth and change. I use respectful curiosity to invite you to envision your preferred future and together we will attend to any moves towards it whether these are small increments or large changes. I am dedicated to providing efficient psychological services so that you can achieve the changes in your life that you desire."
"My aim is to work towards positive changes in a collaborative way. My therapeutic approach is caring and gentle, and grounded firmly in evidence-based principles."
Solution focused therapy concentrates on the individual's worldview and seeks to identify intra-systemic and therefore system-compatible solutions. It is assumed that change is the only constant factor in our lives and consequently change is inevitable.
Hence solutions as exceptions to the problem are always already given and need to be identified in a collaborative approach. Attending to already existing moves towards an agreed goal whether these are small increments or large changes will lead to individually customized and effective solutions.
Solution focused therapy claims that we don't need to fully understand a problem and it's origins in order to find solutions to it. Focussing predominantly on problems and their point of origin somewhere in the past can weaken our potential of personal growth and our ability to change. Hence overly problem focussed strategies may prevent what they were aiming for.
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Coaching/Life Coaching
" I offer external and confidential personal and executive coaching in an individual setting. Together we will focus in a solution- and resource oriented manner on your professional role and on your current work related queries."
"We will focus collaboratively on your resources in the here and now in order to solve current problems in a solution oriented and creative manner. A solution focused approach entails that we don't need to fully understand a problem and it's origins in order to find solutions to it. Focussing on problems and their point of origin somewhere in the past can weaken our potential of growth and our ability to change."
"I use respectful curiosity to invite you to envision your preferred future and together we will attend to any moves towards it whether these are small increments or large changes. I am dedicated providing efficient coaching so that you can live up to your full potentials and achieve the changes in your professional life that you desire."
"Apart form my clinical experience I have gained several years of management experience in Germany and Australia. In addition to that I have worked as Mentor, as a Consultant for colleagues and other health professionals, as a clinical supervisor and as a trainer for students."
I provide efficient and evidence based life and executive coaching in the following areas:
- Enhancement of management and leadership competencies
- Conflict coaching/conflict resolution
- Increase of creativity, motivation and professional performance
- Life and career planning
- Change management/transition coaching
- Life Coaching
- Cultural coaching
- Health and wellness coaching
- Cognitive behavior therapy sydney
- Counselling Sydney CBD
"On request I provide psychological treatment/counselling in private matters"
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Therapy / Counselling
I provide professional psychological treatment for Individuals and for Couples within a confidential, empathic and respectful environment.
Although eclectic in the therapeutic approaches and strategies I may mainly use Solution Focused Therapy (my approach >) and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses on the way we think and act in order to target emotional and behavioural problems. My therapeutic approach is caring and supportive and firmly grounded in evidence-based principles.
Mainly focussing on the present and the future I will collaboratively concentrate on your strenghts rather than on weaknesses so that problems will be addressed solution oriented.
I use respectful curiosity to invite you to envision your preferred future. I am dedicated providing efficient services so that you can achieve the changes in your life that you desire.
Claudia has sound clinical experience in treating the listed conditions should they arise:
- Substance Use Disorders (Nicotine and Quitting smoking, Alcohol, Prescription Medication, Cannabis, Amphetamines, Ecstasy, Cocaine, Opiates and Hallucinogens) (Substance use disorder >)
- Pathological Gambling (Pathological gambling >)
- Adjustment Disorder / Life transition issues (Adjustment disorder >)
- Anxiety Disorder (Social Anxiety Disorder / Social Phobia, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Attacks/Panic Disorder, Agoraphobia, Phobias, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder)
- Mood Disorder (e.g. Depression Counselling, Bipolar Disorder)
- Mental illness (e.g. Schizophrenia)
- Physical and Sexual Abuse / Self-Harm
- Relationship / Marriage problems
- Life Crisis
- Grief and Loss/Bereavement
- Trauma
- Eating Disorder Counselling (Anorexia nervosa, Bulimia nervosa)
- Cognitive behavior therapy sydney
- Counselling Sydney CBD
Substance Use Disorder
Many of us will be familiar with the pleasure of having a beer on a Friday after work with mates or appreciate a glass of wine with dinner. Such enjoyments may remain harmless and have rather the potential to enrich our life. Therefore Substance Use Disorder must be clearly distinguished from the harmless use of a substance in order to pleasurably relish life.
Substance Use Disorder refers to the overindulgence in and psychological and physical dependence on a psychoactive substance leading to effects that are detrimental to the individual's physical or mental health or to the welfare of others and that may lead to legal problems.
In other terms Substance Use Disorder refers to individuals who continue to use a given substance despite their own best interest. For example smoking cigarettes despite well-researched adverse health effects.
" In my clinical experience Substance Use Disorder is often a way of self medication. People usually firstly try to solve their problems on their own and they do that by means that they believe to be successful and/or that are rooted in our culture. In this sense Substance Use is a coping strategy in the absence of a more successful solution.
The process in which a given individual enters the vicious circle of Substance Abuse and/or Dependence varies with the substance, the frequency of use, the means of ingestion, the intensity of pleasure or euphoria and the individual's genetic and psychological susceptibility."
" Chronic progression of Substance Abuse leads to increased harm as the behaviour starts to impact negatively on more and more areas of the individual's life. Clients report ambivalent feelings and thoughts about giving up and about continuing their substance using behaviour. Individuals express immense suffering and yet their motivation to change may remain fluctuant over time."
"Partners, family members and friends of individuals who suffer from a Substance Use Disorder report feelings of despair when they are condemned to helplessly watch the chronic progressive decline of
their loved ones. They are willing to do almost everything in order to help. Thus their motivation for change often exceeds the individual's readiness, which inevitably causes further conflict and grief."
"I offer confidential and effective evidence based treatment for Substance Use Disorders and I will combine Cognitive Behavioural Therapy techniques with Solution Focused Therapy in a collaborative approach. Our main target will be to stop or to reduce the proble- matic substance consumption. I offer caring and supportive psy- chological treatment for any underlying or co-existing difficulties as needed so that you can achieve the changes in your life that you desire."
"Due to my strong clinical background in Substance Use Disorders I am well equipped to offer specialist advice and gentle support to partners, family members and friends of individuals who suffer from Substance Use Disorder. I offer advice and caring support in difficult times."
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Pathological Gambling
Everyone loves to pick a winner and many people enjoy a bet on the horses or the dogs, or to try their luck on the lottery, the pokies or in the casino. But sometimes they spend more time and money on gambling than they can afford. If this happens week after week then this indicates that there is a problem developing. The sooner treatment is sought out the better.
"Clients have told me that they knew that their gambling behaviour had become problematic when they found themselves in front of the pokies although they had lost the enjoyment that they used to get out of gambling. When financial problems kept escalating and they found that they were constantly chasing their losses and they had tried several times to cut back or give up gambling but couldn't, they then started to realise that harmless fun had turned into problem gambling. Clients talk about feeling very guilty about the harm that they have caused their families and friends. They report arguing with their partners over money or over less quality time spent with their families, that gambling was hurting them financially and socially."
It is very common for gamblers to feel that they should keep gambling until they win back their losses. As their debts get bigger, they start to spend more and more time thinking about how to find more money, so they can win back what they have lost and fix things up. As they are preoccupied with chasing their losses their thinking can become distorted and they don't think clearly about other things in their life any more. Their performance at work can drop off, and they may withdraw from family life. The guilt and distress they feel can make them try to hide the problems by lying to partners, family and friends. Embezzlement of money may occur.
"Pathological gambling usually impacts very negatively on partners, family and friends. Distraught family members talk about their loved ones isolating and distancing themselves from everyone. Financial hardship occurs and sometimes families are even confronted with legal charges due to problem gambling."
"I offer confidential and effective evidence based treatment for pathological gambling and I will combine Cognitive Behavioural Therapy strategies with Solution Focused Therapy in a collaborative approach. Our main target will be to stop the problem gambling and to address pressing financial and/or legal problems. In addition to that I offer caring and supportive psychological treatment for any underlying or co-existing difficulties as needed so that you can achieve the changes in your life that you desire."
"Due to my clinical background in pathological gambling I am well equipped to offer specialist advice and gentle support to partners, family members and friends of problem gamblers. I offer advice how to best protect yourself, your money and your property from further harm and how to best encourage the pathological gambler to seek professional help."
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Adjustment Disorder
Stressful situations and life events are a normal part of everyone's life and we are usually well equipped to cope with those. But when we are confronted with one or even several significant stressors at once, this may cause significant changes in our lives and symptoms of Adjustment Disorder can develop.
Adjustment Disorder refers to a psychological disturbance that develops in response to significant Change, a stressful life event and/or severe physical illness. Symptoms of Adjustment Disorder are a result of emotional pain and distress and they can impact on family relationships and work performance. Examples for stressful life events are: Death of a loved one, separation/divorce, emigration, seeking refuge, accidents, physical attack, bankruptcy, environmental catastrophe, unemployment, severe physical illness and similar events.
"Emigration has been identified as a stressful life event that induces significant change. Thus symptoms of Adjustment Disorder can develop in response to Emigration. The more commonly used term "culture shock" refers to the fact that cultural differences are at first often a source of conflict rather than of enrichment. Although variations occur with individual conditions of emigration most emigrants pass through phases of euphoria ("Everything is exciting") and of frustration feeling home sick ("Everything sucks—I want to go home").
"Clients suffering from Adjustment Disorder report extensive periods of worrying and anxiousness. They feel unable to cope with the situation and "nervous breakdown" can occur.
Individuals experience uncharacteristic and prolonged periods of Depression, Anxiety, feeling tense, frustration, despair, irritability and sometimes aggression as well as sleeping disorders."
"I provide solution focused and resource oriented, caring and supportive counselling during difficult times in your life. Our main target will be to identify coping strategies and to enhance social support. Due to my cultural background I am well equipped to offer specialist advice for Adjustment Disorder as a result of emigration."
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Fees & Rebates
Fees are guided by the national schedule of recommended rates of the Australian Psychological Society.
Consultations are typically 60 minutes long. The initial appointment can be longer in order to allow enough time to gain a detailed understanding of your goals and expectations.
Fees are payable at the time of consultation. A cancellation policy applies to all appointments. Appointments can be rescheduled without attracting any fee up to 24 hours before the negotiated appointment time. Appointments cancelled with less than 24 hours notice will attract the full fee.
Rebates
A part of the fee may be claimable with your private health fund, depending on your health plan. In many cases this can significantly reduce the cost of sessions. Since the amount you can claim back varies from fund to fund, and from cover to cover, it is advisable to check your entitlements with your health fund before commencing.
Medicare covers $120 per one hour session for a maximum of 10 sessions per calendar year if you obtain a referral under a Mental Health Care Plan from your local doctor.
If you wish to arrange an appointment, call me on
0416 510 113
or e-mail
mail@claudiarothhaas.com.au
Contact Details
Claudia Rothhaas
Clinical Psychologist
Suite 1203, BMA House
135-137 Macquarie Street
Sydney NSW 2000
P: 0416 510 113
F: 02 8007 0459
E: mail@claudiarothhaas.com.au
W: www.claudiarothhaas.com.au
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