Welcome to Manas Psychology Bendigo
Bendigo Psychologist – Clinical Psychology & Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy – In-person and online
Manas. [ˈmä-nəs]. noun. mind. Seat of insight and emotions; Sanskrit word signifying mind, conscience, thought, intelligence, integrity, understanding and will power.
“Our deepest fears and desires often lie outside the realm of conscious awareness”
Wilfred Bion
Thank you for stopping by my website. As a Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist my central role is to create a deep thinking space where we work towards understanding your inner-life, including your current struggles and circumstances, your history, your hopes, dreams and aspirations as well as your disappointments and struggles. I offer a containing and holding thinking space where you are able to express whatever thoughts, feelings, concerns, hopes, or desires that spontaneously arise during our sessions. This vital, often life-saving work is aimed at deeply understanding your mind, your habitual patterns and ways of bieng in the world that may relate to your life struggles, much of which may remain outside your conscious life, by engaging in an in-depth expoloration of your internal world.
Please read on to find general information about me, services offered, and links to helpful resources and feel free to call / email if you have any questions that may be unanswered by what follows.
Getting Started
I recognise that the decision to pursue therapy can be stressful for many people, and I try to make this process as comfortable and straight-forward as possible. People who contact me are at various stages of readiness to begin therapy, and I am committed to guiding patients toward relief from distress and an enhanced sense of well-being. I can be contacted by calling 0438 715 821 or email info@manaspsychology.com.au.
What to Expect
In the initial consultations, my goal is for us to meet for one or more sessions to carefully assess your concerns and for us jointly to decide on the most helpful way to proceed. Initial sessions provide you the psychological and emotional space to talk about your general reason for seeking treatment, along with the historical background of the issue as well as a sense of what life has been like for you over the years. The only key principle to adhere to within therapy sessions is to aim towards talking about ‘anything and everything’ that comes to your mind with as little censoring as possible. Psychotherapy is a process of collaboratively underestanding all aspects of your mind – even those aspects that you may not consciously be aware of that may be impacting your functioning. Some individuals have a difficult time in the first session putting into words what they struggle with – this is often the case with many who are new to psychotherapy. It is important to realise however that everything within the session – including the struggle to communicate, is in fact a specific form of wordless communication and may represent, in a condensed form some of the key struggles with life outside the therapy room – it is our task to make sense of all of this together . Remember, it may have taken some time – often decades for your difficulties to form and as such may take us a while to understand the complexity of your situation. If it was a matter of a simple strategy or a quick solution, in all likelihood, you would have found it before seeking therapy in the first place. Life is complex, and having undergone extensive psychotherapy as a patient myself (an absolute mandatory training requirement for any effective mental health practitioner in my view ) I understand that the psychotherapy is often a difficult, daunting and frustrating process that makes demands on your time, finances and emotional energy – but the rewards of emotional freedom, creativity, sense of stillness and wholesomeness that come with examining ones inner life are incalculable. Symptom relief is a wonderful byproduct of such an exploration of one’s internal life.
Practice Location
Manas Psychology – Bendigo Clinical Psychology – Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
I practice from 3 Lansell Street Kangaroo Flat – a southern suburb of Bendigo, located next to the Kangaroo Flat Medical centre. Plenty of onstreet parking is available across from the Shine Bright Kindergarten on Carpenter Street and public transport buses ply within a few metres from the centre on High Street Kangaroo Flat.
