Lara Mardunovic
Registered Psychologist
B.Psych
Lara is a registered Psychologist with the Psychology Board of Australia and a provider of psychological services through Medicare. Lara has in-depth experience working with various mental health presentations including depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder, personality disorders, and grief and loss presentations. She also has extensive experience in the area of addictions and has worked in this field for many years. Lara employs evidence based treatments that are tailored to the unique needs and goals of each individual client. Interventions typically include Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Schema Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT). Lara currently works on Fridays.
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Read about the most common psychological problems, up-to-date, evidence-based tips, tools and resources for improving your mental health & wellbeing.
Get Your Stress to Work for You, Not Against You!
Stress is part of daily life, no getting around it. However, what if you could use this guaranteed contribution to your day as a resource and set it to work for you? Like most things in life, our perception plays a monumental role in the outcome… no different from our...
What is Anxiety?
Everyone feels stress or worry from time and time. This level of worry will come and go and tends to by limited in its impact on our overall quality of life. Anxiety however doesn’t follow this pattern, and often permeates our thought lives, and can interfere...
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance!” Oscar Wilde
It is said that one of the kindest things you can do for yourself is accept yourself just the way you are. It is also said that one of the bravest things you can do is stretch yourself and reach for your dreams. So which is it, self-acceptance or self-improvement? The...
