dr keely bebbington
Clinical Psychologist
BSc(Hons), MPsych(Clinical), PhD, MACPA
Keely is a compassionate and practical therapist with a special interest in helping clients during significant life events be it grief, adjusting to a health diagnosis, or other significant changes. She helps individuals work through the anxiety and stress that such changes bring.
Keely also has a special interest in working with depression, chronic pain, and relationships (including enhancing the parent-child relationship working from a Circle of Security approach).
Keely works with adolescents (aged 16+), and adults on a wide range of presentations, always focusing on helping them get the most out of life. Keely brings a strong theoretical background, and a compassionate approach to her interactions, and she works particular well with with the following presentations:
1. Building resilience in adjusting to life events (e.g. relationship breakdown, loss/grief, significant health diagnoses, pregnancy and parenthood). Keely helps individuals explore the all-encompassing impact of life events, including changes to identity, changes to relationships, changes to routines, and changes to financial situations. She also helps individuals navigate the impact of these changes on mental health.
2. Burnout, stress, and work/life balance. Keely helps those feeling overwhelmed in life and at work. She helps them to clarify what is important to them, and helps them develop a plan to get back on track by addressing underlying mindset (including perfectionism) or habits that hold them back. As part of this, she also helps with work-related issues including procrastination and communication at work.
3. Health issues. Keely is passionate about helping individuals come to terms with significant health diagnoses. She understands that illnesses such as diabetes, cancer, alcohol misuse, and chronic pain, all have a profound impact on identity, relationships, and lifestyle. In working with health issues, Keely also helps people stay on track with lifestyle changes to help them look after their health better.
4. Low self-esteem. Keely assists individuals with low self-esteem to explore the many ways in which it holds them back in life - from affecting assertiveness in friendships and relationships, feeling anxious in social situations, and emotional eating.
5. Keely helps with an array of anxiety presentations, including chronic worrying/generalised anxiety, panic attacks, fear of needles/injections, and social anxiety. Given the impact of anxiety on quality of life, Keely helps people reclaim what anxiety has stopped them from doing.
6. Keely helps individuals with depression and mood disorders explore what affects their mood and how to find a way forward. This may include working on goals to help with shifting unhelpful thoughts and thinking styles, but also to enhance enjoyment and quality of life.
7. Pregnancy, perinatal anxiety and depression, and parenting. Keely enjoys helping people navigate this significant change in their lives, focusing on maintaining optimal wellbeing and mental health, developing a plan to adjust following birth, and also helping with enhancing parent-child bonding and relationships (from a Circle of Security approach).
Keely is a thoughtful and reflective psychologist, and adapts evidence-based treatments such as Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Schema Therapy, and Mindfulness, to best suit an individual’s needs.
ARTICLES BY KEELY
Through her training and clinical work Keely has gained experience in pain management and rehabilitation, alcohol and substance misuse, as well as trauma and anxiety. She takes an open and inquisitive approach to an individual's experience of how difficult situations impact on their wellbeing, and focuses on how to tailor evidence-based techniques to best suit an individual's particular needs.
In addition to her clinical work Keely also works in research at the Telethon Kids Institute in the field of Diabetes, and has worked at The University of Western Australia tutoring undergraduate psychology students. Keely also facilitates corporate training workshops on wellbeing, mental health, and performance.
Keely trained at The University of Western Australia, where she completed her Bachelor of Science, Master of Clinical Psychology, and Doctor of Philosophy. Her PhD thesis examined the impact of anxiety on the communication of emotional information.
Keely is registered to provide Medicare rebates and some health fund rebates.
Keely’s clinic day is Thursday.
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