Psychologist Central Victoria Australia

Victor established his Psychologist practice in Castlemaine Victoria in 2003. His professional counselling orientation and training is in cognitive behavioural and positive psychology action methods. Victor has worked as a self employed Psychologist since 1992, and he has had success with hundreds of clients over the last 20 years who have sought help for anxiety disorders, mood disorders, job burnout, traumatic events, adjustment to major change, relationship problems, parenting, divorce, unemployment, illness, disability, addiction, and complicated grief. Victor has additional professional interests and experience with industrial psychology and small business, and he provides Coaching, Mentoring and Supervision to individuals who self refer. He has been a registered psychologist and member of the Australian Psychological Society since 1992. Victor prefers to provide his psychology services to Adults who are over the age of 30. Victor’s current psychologist practice is focused on individual counselling and coaching. Victor accepts clients who self-refer, or who are accessing Medicare, WorkCover, and NDIS referral via their general practitioner.

Professional Background

After completing high school in 1975 Victor started a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and Economics at Swinburne University and finished in 1980. In 1981 he began 4 years of hospital-based training in Mental Health Nursing at Royal Park Hospital. He graduated in 1985 and moved to Prince Henry’s Hospital where he held the position of Associate Charge Nurse until 1991 when the hospital closed and was relocated to Monash Medical Centre. In 1989 Victor completed a Post-Graduate Diploma in Counselling with Distinction from RMIT University. During this time he also completed his research thesis with Distinction, exploring Job Burnout/Professional Depression/Attributional Style. Victor’s research was supervised by author and Psychologist Dr Richard Nelson-Jones MAPS. Victor was then supervised for his probationary psychologist registration by Psychologist and RMIT lecturer Dr Robert Dawson MAPS, who at that time was also Co-director of the Australian Institute for Rational Emotive Therapy. Victor later completed a Sales and Marketing course at Victoria University, and did Hypnosis training at Melbourne University. In 1991 Victor entered private practice as an associate with Dr Robert Dawson and Associates, and under his supervision facilitated individual and group programs for drink drive offenders and also sufferers of insomnia/sleep disorder. Then right through the 1990’s, Victor worked as an independent Consulting Psychologist, mainly through Morgan & Banks Ltd and Monash Medical Centre. During this period he provided human resources consulting and coaching, staff professional development, group training, individual counselling and coaching for hundreds of employees facing rapid organisational change, amalgamations, and redundancy. During this period Victor designed, managed, and supervised successful redundancy support programs, mainly in the Electricity, Water, Gas, Health, and Local Govt sectors in Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania. In 2001 he moved to Central Victoria.

Personal Background

Victor’s creative interests and hobbies are in Music. In the late 1970s and early 80s Victor played drums and did backing vocals in alternative Melbourne rock bands and music projects, namely the Fiction, Little Murders, Dorian Gray, and Dance Set. He spent most of 1981 with Dorian Gray, doing support gigs in Melbourne with other bands such as the Divinyls, Hunters & Collectors, Mental as Anything, the Go-Betweens, and the Sunnyboys. In 1991 he was a member/co-ordinator of the Outsiders -The Thai band from the great southern land. In 2002, Victor played and recorded with the Cossack Ponies in Bendigo, and in 2009 he started with Sputnik Penguin in Melbourne. Some of his recorded musical efforts appear on Au-Go-Go Records, Off The Hip Records, Soundcloud, and various CD compilations. He continues to use music at both work and play. Much of his current music with Sputnik Penguin explores mental health issues.

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