At the Emotions Clinic Australia, Dr Belinda Ratcliffe and team provide evidence-based mental health intervention and treatment for children, adolescents and adults with or without autism and intellectual disability.
The Clinic is well-known in the community and throughout Australia for innovation in adapting evidence-based treatments for anxiety, depression, self-harm and challenging behaviour to meet the learning needs in autism.
The Clinic adapts evidence-based treatments including: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and Acceptance and Committment Therapy (ACT) to meet the learning needs of neurodiverse individuals using a range of visual-based techniques, including video modelling, pictures, visual worksheets and other engaging tools.
We provide therapy targeting:
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Practical Social Skills
- Emotion Regulation
- Coping with life transitions
- Disclosing and understanding a diagnosis
- Grief and loss
- Parenting/behaviour management
- Adjustment to having a child with a disability
- Relationships
- Siblings
