Carla is a clinical psychologist and board approved supervisor with experience providing trauma-informed care to young people, adults and families presenting with a range of complex mental health difficulties.
Meet Carla Butera
Carla is passionate about working collaboratively and respectfully with clients, to develop a shared understanding of their challenges and how they can best be addressed during therapy. Carla adopts a curious approach in her practice, recognising that clients are the experts in their own lives, and hopes to build on their self-awareness through the integration of evidence-based psychological treatments that are trauma-informed and deeply relational.
Establishing a safe, trusting and meaningful connection is of high importance to Carla, who works closely with clients to understand their unique perspectives and experiences.
Intervention should focus on understanding the underlying causes (e.g., early relational patterns and attachment), rather than focussing on the symptoms, in the hope this will achieve a more integrated understanding of the self and relief from psychological distress.
Qualifications
- Master of Psychology (Clinical)
- Bachelor of Psychology (Honours)
- Fully registered psychologist (area of practice endorsement in Clinical Psychology) with AHPRA
- Board Approved Supervisor with AHPRA
- Circle of Security for Professionals (COS)
- Tuning into Teens Facilitator
Areas of interest
- Attachment and relational difficulties
- Complex trauma / Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
- Identity and understanding of self
- Personality vulnerabilities and emerging personality disorders in young people
- Emotional and relational difficulties in adolescents and young adulthood
- Adjustment and life transition difficulties
- Parenting
- Perinatal mental health
- Psychosis and unusual experiences
Therapeutic approaches
- Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT)
- Mentalisation Based Therapy (MBT)
- Circle of Security (COS) and Attachment Theory
- Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and CBT for Psychosis
- Tuning into Teens framework – Emotionally intelligent parenting
Availability
Mondays & Wednesdays – in person and via Telehealth.
Contact
E-mail: carla@woodwalk.com.au
Phone: 0474 242 804
Clinical Psychologist