About Katrina
Katrina Czerkies is an AHPRA-registered practitioner with 20 years' experience in forensic psychological practice. She offers calm, direct support for people dealing with stress, anxiety, addictions, anger and depression. Katrina meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps they can use day to day.
She moved into independent practice after two decades in public service. That background gives her a strong understanding of complex behaviour and risky situations.
Background and approach
She provides individual assessment and intervention for people engaging in harmful behaviours or facing difficult life circumstances. Katrina rejects a one-size-fits-all model. She works with each person to choose approaches that fit their values and goals.
She emphasises dignity and accountability while helping people learn how behaviour developed as a way to cope. Sessions focus on identifying patterns, building safer coping strategies and setting realistic goals. Katrina believes change begins with clearer self-understanding and steady, practical steps.
She supports people to move towards a healthier and more meaningful life. Her additional focus areas include first responder and veteran issues, process and substance addictions, personality and co-morbidity concerns, domestic violence, and problems with communication and control. Katrina uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to tailor care to each person's situation.
Evidence-based approaches for online therapy and recovery
Two evidence-based techniques Katrina commonly uses are practical behaviour work and structured assessment-led intervention. Practical behaviour work focuses on breaking patterns that keep problems going and building safer coping skills; it is useful for anxiety, addictions and anger. Assessment-led intervention uses careful assessment of behaviour and risk to shape clear, step-by-step plans for change and support in difficult situations.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Katrina collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals and preferences. She reviews progress and adjusts the plan so it stays relevant to real life and to the challenges the person faces.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, offering practical flexibility. Video calls work well for in-depth conversations and reading non-verbal cues, phone sessions suit people who need less bandwidth or prefer not to be on camera, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing, brief contact between sessions. These options can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to maintain regular support from appropriately qualified or registered professionals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- Antisocial personality
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Personality disorders
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sex addiction
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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