Services

Find hope, learn skills and build resilience.

Service Types

Lucy offers a range of therapies that can assist you, either face to face or via telehealth (phone or zoom).

Therapy appointments

Assessments

(prior to bariatric surgery and other medical procedures)

Board approved supervision

Treatment Areas

    • Difficulty conceiving

    • Emotional support for IVF

    • Supported decision making

    • Treatment and care tailored around the psychological difficulty of living with infertility/sub-fertility

    • Adjustment to stages of treatment

    • Deciding to commence, pause, continue or cease treatment

    • Grief and loss

    • Resilience

    • Unplanned / unexpected pregnancy

    • Foetal abnormality

    • Ambivalence about pregnancy

    • Antenatal depression

    • Antenatal anxiety

    • Fear of childbirth

    • Managing and coping with pregnancy-related complications

    • Coping with pregnancy-related physical change

    • Postnatal depression

    • Postnatal anxiety

    • Birth-related concerns

    • Fathers / partners experiencing depression or anxiety

    • Adjustment to parenthood

    • Lack of enjoyment in parenting

    • Return to work concerns

    • Miscarriage

    • Recurrent miscarriage

    • Stillbirth

    • Neonatal death

    • Medical Termination of Pregnancy

    • Bereavement

    • Grief associated with infertility / involuntary childlessness

    • Anxiety

    • Depression

    • Difficulty adjusting to loss

    • Stress and feeling overwhelmed

    • Sleep issues

    • Relationship issues

    • Stage of life adjustment

    • Bonding and attachment

    • Anxiety

    • Depression

    • Suicidality

    • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

    • Adjustment Disorder

    • Health related concerns, adjustment, grief and loss, compliance with treatment

    • Grief and Loss

    • Childhood Trauma

    • Traumatic Events

    • Weight related concerns (Please note that Lucy Kennedy Psychology is not a specialised eating disorder service)

    • Stress Management

Treatment Techniques

Lucy provides evidence based treatments, individually tailored to suit your particular concerns, symptoms and challenges.

Therapy is designed to treat the symptoms you are experiencing with the aim of reducing distress, improving function and increasing your sense of confidence, resilience and wellbeing. Areas that can be addressed in therapy include anxiety, depression, sleep, work, relationships, parenting, boundary building, participating in valued activities, improving the ability to self-care, adjustment to new circumstances/new diagnoses, grief and loss, and past trauma.

  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

    Exploring the interconnection between thoughts, beliefs, emotions and behaviours and how this may contribute to or maintain distress.

  • Acceptance & Commitment Therapy

    Understanding and learning how to build acceptance of a challenging or difficult situation or circumstance; and (gradually) committing to living in a way more aligned with your values.

  • Mind-Body Integration

    Including: Breathwork, mindfulness, somatic exercises to build emotion regulation, visualisation and grounding techniques.

  • Motivational Interviewing

    Helps you find the motivation to change an aspect of your life while you are in a compassionate and accepting space.

  • Trauma Informed Care

    If you have experienced a traumatic event or time in your life, it may be negatively affecting you now. Lucy uses a trauma-informed approach in her therapeutic work to assist you to understand, prevent and recover from the impacts of trauma.

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

— Maya Angelou