Rosemarie Deutschmann, psychologist, offers a counselling service at Cairns West Medical Centre to adult patients.
Sari Szekely, psychologist, offers a counselling service at Cairns West Medical Centre to young patients and families.
Professional fees apply. Please speak to your GP about referral processes that may be available to assist you.
Rosemarie studied Psychology and trained as psychotherapist in Germany and Switzerland. She spent nearly 30 years of part-time private practice as counsellor and therapist. The other time was devoted to health related Quality of Life studies in the domain of chronic mental and physical diseases: Parkinson’s disease, Epilepsy, Depression/Anxiety, Schizophrenia; Diabetes, Heart disease, Chronic Bronchitis, Psoriasis, HIV. Although Rosemarie is a “word doctor”, she has access to a broad medical knowledge, which allows her to assist clients to better deal with their medical conditions,
Rosemarie arrived in Australia/Cairns in 2005, registered as Psychologist in Queensland in 2006 and worked during 7 years part-time in Centacare Cairns; in parallel she started to create her private practice and was a telephone counsellor for Lifeline. Her psychological practice is informed by basic principles from Psychoanalysis, Neurolinguistic Programing (NLP) and the latest discoveries of Neuroscience how to rewire the brain for wellbeing and happiness, including “Brain-Spotting”.
Her goal is to create a framework to support clients:
Sari commenced her working life as a registered nurse and midwife and has lived and worked in a range of settings and locations across Far North Queensland.
Since commencing in Psychology, Sari has worked primarily with children and their families, again in a number of clinical settings including schools, government and non government sector, Kids Helpline and currently with the child and family team at Qld Health.
