Helen Lewitan is a warm, compassionate and enthusiastic Clinical Psychologist who invests a collaborative and empathetic approach to see her clients reach individualised therapeutic goals. She upholds both private and public experience and delivers high-quality therapy and emotional support services to clients aged 18 and above.
Helen is passionate about women’s mental health and currently works part time in a not-for-profit which educates on women’s mental health. Helen is also experienced working in multidisciplinary teams and liaising with a range of allied health professionals to attain the best individualised and holistic treatment approach for her clients. Her professional experience includes employment at Cabrini, Royal Children’s Hospital, Eastern Health, Monash, and Epworth hospitals, and she has a background in informal education teaching. In addition, Helen has trained in couples therapy and enjoys working with couples to resolve interpersonal conflict and restore relationships.
Helen works hard to resolve the underlying threads and issues that bring her clients into therapy, believing that therapy is an important and collaborative process. Rapport is of utmost importance to Helen as she believes trust and collaboration is key to effective therapy. Helen utilises a range of therapeutic techniques in her work including (but not limited to) Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Psychodynamic Therapy.
Areas of interest
- Perinatal work including pre/post natal support
- Academic and learning difficulties/disorders
- Parent work including supporting parents through adjustment to their child’s new diagnoses
- ADHD and ASD
- Adjustment issues
- Anxiety
- Behavioural difficulties
- Bullying
- Chronic health conditions
- Couples counselling
- Depression
- Emotion regulation
- Family conflict
- Gender
- Grief
- Health and social anxiety
- Interpersonal difficulties
- Mood disorders
- Obsessive compulsive disorder
- Relationship and interpersonal difficulties
- Workplace bullying and conflict
