Dr Jean Miles Psychologist
Dr Jean is a highly skilled psychologist with a wide range of skills. She has vast experience assisting children, teens, adults and couples to overcome difficulties and reach their highest potential in all spheres of their lives.
Jean is a caring, kind psychologist who is very easy to connect with. She is an excellent listener and her decades of experience helps her to understand not just the challenges, but the whole person she is helping. Jean has a talent for helping people attain goals and become the best version of themselves.
Jean assists clients from 14 years and older.
Therapy with Dr Jean
Working in a therapeutic capacity for the past 28 years, and in full time practice as a psychologist since 2009, Jean has built up an impressive repertoire of skills and experience. She is equally adept at therapy with teenagers, as she is with adults and couples. She remains approachable and very easy to talk to, despite her remarkable career experience. A passion for ongoing learning, significant life experience, combined with kindness and genuine compassion, makes Jean effective as both a listener and a wise guide.
An Experienced Individual and Couples Therapist
Jean is skilled at quickly moving to a deep understanding of the person in front of her, and the ways they may be helped. Her professional and life experience brings a richness to her understanding, and she utilises evidence-based treatment techniques that are most likely to help. She is insightful, empathetic, kind, and very easy to connect with.
Jean is particularly passionate about assisting clients with trauma across the lifespan and how past trauma affects them today. She compassionately helps her clients to get unstuck from the sometimes quite dramatic and insidious ways trauma can affect a person, and live freely and joyfully again.
As a psychologist trained in Gottman and other proven techniques for couples, Jean is skilled at helping couples improve their communication, and foster increased intimacy, understanding, respect, love, and friendship with each other. Jean’s manner is both direct and honest, yet kind, so that challenges can be dealt with compassionately and effectively.
Jean integrates techniques and strategies from the many treatment modalities she is trained in, to provide an individualised and comprehensive treatment approach that targets both specific symptoms and broader underlying factors.
Areas of Practice
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Stress Management & Resilience building
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Managing Life Transitions & Challenges
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Emotional Dysregulation
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Sensory Integration & Auditory Processing
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Perfectionism
- Family and relationship issues
- Low self-esteem and self-criticism
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Assertiveness and boundaries
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ADHD challenges adults & children
Qualifications & Professional Associations
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Doctor of Philosophy (Psychology)
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Master of Social Science in Counselling Psychology (with Distinction)
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Bachelor of Arts Honours in Psychology (with Distinction and Academic Colours)
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Higher Education Diploma (with Distinction and Academic Colours)
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Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and History (with Distinction)
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Registered with the Psychology Board of Australia
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Member of the Australian Association of Psychologists Inc (APPi)
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Member of the Australian Psychological Society (MAPS)
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Registered Psychologist, Australia Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)