Totally Psyched provides specialist assessment and therapeutic treatment for families, kids, teens and young adults experiencing a broad range of difficulties.
When your family or a child is suffering and/or you need help to understand what’s happening, our skilled and compassionate team of highly qualified mental health professionals will support you and your family to reach your goals.
Our friendly and experienced Team are equipped to handle a comprehensive range of psychological challenges. Our therapists are adept at working out what is happening, and helping you and your child/teen navigate their way so they (and you!) are living lives worth loving and embracing.
How we can help
- Individual Mental Health Assessment: all therapies start with an assessment, to develop a joint understanding of the concerns, including how they have developed, what triggers and maintains them, and what is helping.
- Individual Play &/or Talk-based Therapy: specific therapies are selected based on whether treating a child or adolescent, the kind of difficulty they are facing, and what research shows is most effective.
- Family Therapy: to support individuals and the entire family.
- Psychiatric Medication Consultation: our Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrists are available to discuss diagnoses and medication options as part of your child’s treatment plan.
- Educational & Academic Assessment: provides a clearer picture of any underlying learning/intellectual disability or difficulty, and recommendations for what will help.
- Parenting the ADHD Brain: a six week ADHD Workshop Series for parents providing friendly support, information and strategies.
- Wise Minds: an eight week program that helps equip struggling adolescents with the skills, support and validation they need to succeed with managing their emotions and themselves.
- Parenting Support: including Parenting the ADHD Brain, Positive Parenting Program (Triple P), and Incredible Years Parenting Program.
- Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy: helps children and their families make meaningful change through a greater understanding of what lies beneath and informs behaviours.
- Neuro-Physiological Assessment and Treatment: for learning, balance and behavioural difficulties that are the result of Neuro Developmental Delay.
FAQs
Registrations and Memberships
Our team of qualified therapists are all members of their appropriate professional body, including:
- Registered Clinical Psychologists
- Members of New Zealand College of Clinical Psychologists (NZCCP)
- Counsellors Registered with NZ Association of Counsellors (NZAC)
- Psychiatrists accredited by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP)
Appointments
- all our sessions are by appointment only
- your doctor can make a referral or you can contact us yourself to find out how we can help your family
Dr Sarah Watson - Senior Child & Adolescent Clinical Psychologist
Sarah is the Founder and Managing Clinic Director at Totally Psyched. She has over ten years experience as both a Psychologist and leader across a variety of settings, all specialising in working with children, adolescents and their families.
Sarah maintains a small clinical caseload, working with children, adolescents and families across a variety of areas and is particularly interested in working with families affected by neurodevelopmental delays (ADHD & ASD) and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).
Dayna Cooper - Child & Adolescent Clinical Psychologist
Dayna is positive, encouraging and calm, with a great sense of humour and a passion for supporting young people to reach their potential and overcome their difficulties. She values collaboration, consultation and a partnered approach with the families she works with.
Dayna is experienced in providing assessment and therapeutic intervention for children, adolescents and young adults who present with a wide range of mental health concerns, including and specialising in emotional dysregulation, eating disorders, trauma and abuse, obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, anxiety disorders and dissociative disorders.
Pat Cruz - Psychologist
Pat is a warm and friendly Psychologist who values making a genuine connection through empathy and shared understanding with her clients. She prefers to work collaboratively and is adaptable to the preferences of her clients.
She completed her training in Educational and Developmental Psychology at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. She has worked with young people to assess various developmental difficulties, including Autism Spectrum Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Intellectual Disability, Learning Difficulties (i.e., dyslexia). She has worked in the disability sector providing counselling and behaviour assessments and interventions across the lifespan. She enjoys working closely with a client’s family and broader support system to create positive system change.
Since then, she has moved to New Zealand with her partner. She seeks to continue helping young people help reach their dreams and potential.
Memberships:
• New Zealand Psychologist Board
• Australian Psychological Society
Languages
• English
• Filipino
Jo Hathaway - Intern Counselling Psychologist
Jo is a kind and engaging Counselling Psychologist. She loves working with children, teens and their families, enabling and empowering them to develop tools to enhance their personal, social and educational functioning.
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4 Warkworth Street, Warkworth, New Zealand
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https://www.psyched.org.nz/
January, 2025
Wednesday
August 26,2019
- Tuesday
- 9:00am - 10:00am
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