The Jarrah Tree Practice

Clinical Psychology in Newcastle

Evidence-based Clinical Psychology delivered with compassion and care.

Reaching out for psychological support can take courage.

At The Jarrah Tree Practice, we work alongside you to understand you, your story and your challenges in order to find an approach that is genuinely suited to your needs.

We provide personalised Clinical Psychology for adults and adolescents aged 16 and over in Newcastle and the surrounding area.

Face-to-face appointments are available in Broadmeadow, with telehealth also available.

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What we treat

People come to us for many different reasons. We have a particular interest in helping people experiencing recurrent mood and anxiety difficulties, trauma and longstanding patterns that may have become difficult to shift.

We work with people experiencing:

Anxiety, worry, panic and fears
Low mood, depression and mood cycling
Trauma and difficult life experiences
Stress and burnout
Anger, mood swings and difficulties with emotional regulation
Relationship difficulties
Longstanding or unhelpful patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving
Motivation and difficulties making changes
Adjustment to illness or significant life changes
Workplace difficulties
OCD
Gambling difficulties
Challenges associated with Neurodivergence, including ADHD and Autism
Personal growth, values clarification and goal setting

You can find more information about the issues we work with and the psychological treatments we offer on our Services page.

Psychological treatments

There is no single psychological treatment that is right for everyone.

Our clinical psychologists are trained in a range of evidence-based approaches, allowing us to tailor therapy to your needs, goals and circumstances.

Depending on what you are experiencing, therapy may draw on approaches including:

Schema Therapy
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR)
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
Motivational Interviewing

Our clinicians may also draw on mindfulness, attachment, developmental, systemic and psychodynamic perspectives, as well as mind-body approaches where these are relevant to the work.

Our aim is not simply to apply a particular technique. It is to understand what is maintaining your difficulties and select the therapeutic approaches most likely to help.

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Personalised, Evidence-based Psychological care

Our interventions are guided by evidence-based practice and tailored to the individual.

This doesn't mean that therapy is cold, clinical, sterile or depersonalised. We believe effective psychological treatment depends on both sound clinical knowledge and a genuine, caring therapeutic relationship.

All of our clinicians are Clinical Psychologists, with extensive training and experience across a range of psychological approaches. We draw on different therapeutic traditions depending on what is most appropriate for the person sitting in front of us.

This may include understanding the impact of early experiences and longstanding patterns, working with difficult or traumatic memories, developing new ways of responding to emotions, or paying attention to the relationship between psychological and bodily experiences.

Meet our psychologists

The Jarrah Tree Practice includes Martin Wieczorek, founder and Principal Clinical Psychologist, and Danielle Gessler, Principal Clinical Psychologist.

Martin is an AHPRA-registered Clinical Psychologist, Board Approved Supervisor and founder of The Jarrah Tree Practice. He has a particular interest in trauma and longstanding psychological patterns and holds Advanced Accreditation in Schema Therapy with the International Society for Schema Therapy.

Danielle is an AHPRA-registered Clinical Psychologist who works from an integrative and developmentally informed perspective. Her approach draws on attachment, developmental, systemic and psychodynamic perspectives alongside therapies including EMDR and Deep Brain Reorienting. She also incorporates a mind-body perspective into her work, with attention to how psychological experiences can be reflected in bodily sensations and patterns of nervous-system response.

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Take the next step

You don't need to have everything figured out before contacting us.

If you're considering psychological therapy and would like to know whether we might be a good fit, we'd be happy to hear from you.

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The Jarrah Tree

The Jarrah tree is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia and has adapted to harsh and variable conditions.

Its deep roots and underground stores allow it to endure difficult periods. Following bushfire, dormant buds can be activated, allowing new growth to emerge.

For us, the Jarrah tree represents resilience, adaptation and the possibility of growth following adversity.