Welcome to the website of Zsuzsa Barta, Psychologist Sydney

"Whoever remains unmoved, whoever cannot contemplate, or know the deep shudder of the soul in enchantment, might just as well be dead, for he has already closed his eyes on life." Albert Einstein

At Zsuzsa Barta, Psychologist Sydney we would like to free you from all those emotions, thought patterns, and destructive behaviours that are in the way of your happiness.

Zsuzsa Barta, Psychologist Sydney believe that happiness is a side-effect of a fully lived life. None of us is perfect and our imperfections create our beauty. "There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in" (Anthem by Leonard Cohen)

Our Psychotherapy and Counselling at Zsuzsa Barta, Psychologist Sydney assist people to create a deeper understanding of forces that drive us and reasons underlying our behaviours. The psychotherapy process helps with coming to terms with difficult life experiences and resolving inner or external conflicts, resulting in a higher quality of life, better relationships and a stronger self.

Psychologist Services

• Addictions
  The term "addiction" is used in many contexts to describe an obsession, compulsion, or excessive psychological dependence, such as: drug addiction, video game addiction, crime, money, alcoholism, work addiction, compulsive overeating, problem gambling, computer addiction, pornography addiction, etc.
• Anger Management
  Anger is a completely normal, usually healthy, human emotion. But some people find that they can not control their anger and that it has begun to interfere in their work, personal relationships and quality of life.
• Anxiety Disorder
  Anxiety is a psychological and physiological state characterized by cognitive, somatic, emotional, and behavioural components. These components combine to create an unpleasant feeling that is typically associated with uneasiness, fear, or worry.
• Childhood Trauma
  Childhood trauma has profound impact on the emotional, behavioural, cognitive, social and physical functioning of children. Developmental experiences determine the organizational and functional status of the mature brain.
• Chronic Pain
  Although acute pain is mostly physical in nature, chronic pain has a significant psychological component. The treatment of chronic pain should include both medical and psychological interventions.
• Depression
  People experience depression in many different ways. It can occur suddenly or gradually, and can vary in severity and symptoms. Some people may be able to do everything they usually do but feel less energy, pleasure or concentration.
• Difficult Life Events
  DLE, the term describes ordinary, but very painful or complicated experiences of our adult lives, such as change of any kind (age-related, geography and culture related, work-related, and many other), adapting to new situations, coping with relational problems and many other events.
• Eating Problems
  An eating disorder is to eat too much, or avoid eating, in a manner, which negatively affects both one's physical and mental health. Eating disorders are all encompassing. They affect every part of the person's life.
• Grief and Loss
  Grief is a multi-faceted response to loss. It includes the emotion numbness, disbelief, separation, anxiety, despair, sadness, and loneliness that accompany the loss of someone or something loved. Although conventionally focused on the emotional response to loss, it also has physical, cognitive, behavioural, social, and philosophical dimensions.
• Health Issues
  In psychotherapy we investigate how disease affects individuals' psychological well-being, and how psychological issues can contribute to the development of physical illness.
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
  Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is an illness that affects thoughts and actions and is believed to be rooted in a biochemical imbalance of the brain. OCD is classified as an anxiety disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV) published by the American Psychiatric Association
• Personality / Self-Disorder
  PD is characterized by inappropriate and faulty coping styles. Personality disorders are results of imperfect personality development and reflect patterns of the person's attempts to cope with the difficulties.
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
  Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating mental disorder that follows experiencing or witnessing an extremely traumatic, tragic, or terrifying event. People with PTSD usually have persistent frightening thoughts and memories of their ordeal and feel emotionally numb, especially with people they were once close to.
• Relationship
  No relationship is perfect. However, it is important to address problems and unhelpful patterns that arise. Ignoring problems and failing to create understanding can damage relationships, self esteem, mood and performance.
• Self Esteem
  Self-esteem, is the opinions, feelings and thoughts you have about yourself. Although childhood experiences play a large role, self-esteem can evolve and change in reaction to life events and experiences.
• Social Phobia
  Social anxiety disorder, also known as social phobia, involves intense fear of certain social situations - especially situations that are unfamiliar or in which you'll be watched or evaluated by others.
• Stress
  Stress is a biological term which refers to the consequences of the failure of a human or animal body to respond appropriately to emotional or physical threats to the organism, whether actual or imagined. It includes a state of alarm and adrenaline production, short-term resistance as a coping mechanism, and exhaustion.
• Therapy and Counselling
  It is common to feel uncertain about coming to see someone, especially if it is your first time. Many people find that they feel quite relaxed by the end of the first session. If you have any specific concerns, please feel free to raise this over the telephone or via email.

Psychologist Techniques

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
  Cognitive behavioural therapy (or cognitive behaviour therapy, CBT) is a psychotherapeutic approach that aims to influence dysfunctional emotions, behaviours and cognitions through a goal-oriented, systematic procedure.
• Conversational Model of Psychotherapy
  The ideas of the Conversational Model began to develop by Russell Meares and the late Robert Hobson 1965 in the United Kingdom, and linked here in Sydney with those of Kohut's Self Psychology.
• Experiential Therapy
  The term 'experiential' describes a special way of uncovering behavioural and emotional patterns in the here and now. The emphasis is on the 'experience' rather than 'talking about'.
• Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR)
  Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a form of psychotherapy that was developed to resolve symptoms resulting from disturbing and unresolved life experiences. It uses a structured approach to address past, present, and future aspects of disturbing memories.
• Hypnosis
  Hypnosis is a method of inducing a trance or a dream-like state in order to treat disorders of mainly psychological or emotional origin. It has been practised in various forms for thousands of years by many cultures including African, American Indian, Celtic, Egyptian and Ancient Greek. In the 19th and early 20th centuries hypnosis was seen more as a sideshow curiosity than a valid medical treatment.
• Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
  Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) is a time-limited psychotherapy that focuses on the interpersonal context and on building interpersonal skills. IPT is based on the belief that interpersonal factors may contribute heavily to psychological problems.
• Meditative and Mindfulness Techniques
  Meditation is a mental discipline by which one attempts to get beyond the reflexive, "thinking" mind into a deeper state of relaxation or awareness. Meditation often involves turning attention to a single point of reference. It is recognized as a component of many religions, and has been practiced since antiquity.
• Psychodrama
  In psychodrama, participants explore internal conflicts through acting out their emotions and interpersonal interactions on stage.
• Relational Psychoanalytic Techniques
  The relational approach is a psychoanalytic technique that emphasizes the the therapeutic relationship, and the way important relational patterns get acted out. Emphasis is placed on the importance of therapists' authenticity, and on their willingness and ability to bring their unique personhood into the therapeutic relationship.
• Relationship Counselling
  Relationship counseling is the process of counselling the parties of a relationship in an effort to recognize and to better manage or reconcile troublesome differences and repeating patterns of distress. In the clinical practice we mainly see couples and family members, but employees, neighbours, friends and many other related parties can also encounter conflicts.
• Self Psychological Psychotherapy
  Self psychology emphasizes the development of a stable and integrated sense of self through empathic contacts with other humans, primary significant others conceived of as "selfobjects." Selfobjects meet the developing self's needs for mirroring, idealization, and twinship, and thereby strengthen the developing self.

Psychologist Sydney Location

Suite 7
17-19 Knox Street
Double Bay NSW
(02) 9327-6621
Operations Hours: Mon-Fri for appointments

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