Psychology Services
At Black Swan Clinical Psychology, we aim to generate or restore psychological wellness. One way to describe psychological wellness is to say you have 3 buckets full. Full buckets generate meaning, purpose and self- worth…
If one or more of these buckets is leaking or has had punctures, your wellness can ebb away… If they can be refilled or restored, you have the best chance to thrive.
AUTONOMY
The “Autonomy Bucket” represents the feeling/confidence/reality that you can have choice in your life and have authority to make decisions about yourself which are meaningful to you. This is sometimes called a sense of agency: That is, you can be the agent in your own life, making things happen…(This bucket can drain with a feeling of coercion or control or a sense of lack of authority in your own life).
CONNECTEDNESS
The “Connectedness Bucket” represents the feeling of being part of a group involving mutual obligations and support for each other and an associated sense of shared identity. It could be a small supportive group of friends, a club, a team, a family, a romantic or business partnership, or a pet, a spiritual group, or a culture involving shared meaning and mutual support. (This bucket can drain with significant losses of loved ones, break-up of significant relationship or with feelings of isolation or alienation from others, due to retirement, under-unemployment, moving to a new town/workplace).
COMPETENCY
The “Competency Bucket” represents the feeling that you can do things and have skills and strengths in areas of your life. (The competency bucket can drain with perception of lack of achievement, capacity, or success in desired areas of life or loss of working life due to injury).
Black Swan Clinical Psychology offers evidence-based treatments in the areas of human life where we can develop vulnerabilities which generate distress and where we might need to seek support…
ANXIETY AND PANIC
a perception of threat and dread often given labels such as…
GAD Generalised Anxiety Disorder
PD Panic Disorder
Particular Phobias or extreme fears (e.g. Social phobia, Agoraphobia, Arachnophobia)
OCD Obsessive/Compulsive Disorder Performance anxiety
MOOD PROBLEMS
Depressive Disorders: Low mood as pervasive sense of feeling
low, disconnected, sad or unmotivated (e.g. labels PDD, MDD)
Mood regulation: extreme difficulties regulating unpredictable
fluctuating or changing mood states e.g. lowhigh low; (labels
BPAD)
DISTRESS AROUND SHAPE AND WEIGHT
Treatment support for disordered eating patterns (labels e.g. Eating Disorder - AN, BN, BED, Atypical AN)
STRESS MANAGEMENT
Understanding and implementing the 5 pillars of Stress Management; mindfulness-based stress management.
ATTACHMENT AND RELATIONSHIP ISSUES
a) Identification, then b) acceptance then c) restructuring unhelpful schemas of the self, learned in childhood and adolescence, and often as a consequence of unmet childhood core needs.
SLEEP ISSUES AND STRATEGIES
Treatment for unsatisfactory sleep patterns ( label e.g. Insomnia)
ADJUSTMENT TO CHANGE ISSUES
Lifespan, aging and retirement, underemployment, Chronic disease, Pain and chronic pain management, Grief and loss (labels e.g. Adjustment Disorder)
