Community
We believe connection and community is at the heart of supporting positive mental health.
On the weekends, you’ll find us immersed in our local community, including spending time with family, friends and participating in local sporting club activities and events.
As well as participation, we show our commitment to community through charitable and other donations, including a standing monthly donation to Breast Cancer Care WA and sponsorship of a junior team with the Melville Mariners Ball Club.
On the weekends, you’ll find us immersed in our local community, including spending time with family, friends and participating in local sporting club activities and events.
As well as participation, we show our commitment to community through charitable and other donations, including a standing monthly donation to Breast Cancer Care WA and sponsorship of a junior team with the Melville Mariners Ball Club.
How
we help
Every person and mind is unique. So too are your reasons for considering speaking with a psychologist. We appreciate that taking the first step towards feeling better (whatever that means for you or your child) can sometimes be the hardest, and with this in mind, we’re hopeful that our approach will put you at ease.
Whether it’s achieving a more consistent feeling of calm, or understanding and improving behaviours or thinking that you feel holds you or your kids back, we can help.
Our Approach
Our approach is based on positive psychology and working with your strengths. We’ll help you to build confidence and capability with coping and improvement strategies, in a sustainable way.
01
Child Psychology
Support for your beautiful kid
We help kids of all ages to start to identify and understand the thoughts, feelings or behaviours that challenge or upset them, and bring focus to their strengths. Key to helping kids however is also helping their parents – we hope to equip you with the skills needed to sustain success for your kids (so you don’t need us).
02
Teen Psychology
Not a kid, not yet an adult supporting rapid physical, cognitive and emotional change
Teens (and tweens) represent the highest proportion of people we currently see in our practice. We’ve supported many teens over the years to overcome apprehensions about school including transitioning to high school, friendship challenges (what good friendships look like and how to maintain them), and building self-esteem.
03
Child Psychology
Support for a life that’s busy, varied
and not always predictable
The adults we see in our practice are facing a wide variety of life experiences that come with “adulting”! Most common are challenges with anxiety, relationships, work pressure / work life integration, stress, confidence, emotional regulation and goal setting.
What we help with
We work with our clients across a wide range of areas and challenges, including:
Anxiety (general anxiety disorder, social anxiety, separation anxiety)
Behavioural challenges
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
Attention deficient hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Social skills / positive behaviours
Parenting
School & academic performance
Difficulty sleeping
Self esteem / confidence
Mood change / depression
Sadness
Grief
Anger
Relationships
Coaching for performance (work, sport, life)
Communication challenges
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
Technology addiction
We also have experience in some more unique areas such as selective mutism (several social anxiety).
Meet us
Craig Salisbury,
Principal Psychologist
Craig is a registered psychologist with nearly 20 years’ experience working with paediatric clients in private practice, as a school psychologist in State and private schools, and as an early childhood psychologist with multi-disciplinary early intervention teams with Specialist Children’s Services in Victoria.
Craig has extensive expertise with early childhood intervention, including supporting kids and their parents with evidence-based tools and cognitive behavioural therapy to navigate a range of developmental and behavioural paediatric concerns, such as ADHD, autism, anxiety, school avoidance, self-esteem, fears and phobias, low mood and peer relationships.
Craig also works with teens and young adults to support academic performance, and successful transitions between school, tertiary education and vocations, in addition to working with people of all ages to enhance their mental wellbeing through the many and varied phases of life.
Craig is a former rower with more than a decade of experience as a rowing coach with winning crews at Scotch College and Xavier College in Melbourne, and Christ Church Grammar and St Hildas College in Perth.
Craig is also a father of four, including an adult daughter and three young boys. He’s currently in the midst of his kids’ sporting era, including volunteering his time for the many and varied duties that come with supporting kids in sport, including taxi driver, coach and half time fruit caterer! He remains very proud of his accomplishments with convincing ALL of his children of the merits of following his beloved footy club, the mighty Hawks!
After living in Melbourne for 2 decades, Craig relocated to his hometown of Perth in mid 2020. He continues to support close to 100 east coast-based clients by telehealth.
Craig has a Bachelor of Psychology, Graduate Diploma in Education Studies, and a DipED (School Psychology).
Available for in person and telehealth consults