Rennie Schmid
BA. BTheol. B.AppPsych(Hons) MAPS FCCOUNP
Before becoming a registered psychologist, Rennie provided crisis intervention, pastoral care, grief support and counselling to an extensive variety of professional working environments.
Since then, Rennie has become a Fellow within the Australian Psychological Society’s, College of Counselling Psychologists. He worked for a 10-year period in acute mental health and rehabilitation settings, assisting with crisis support during the Thredbo disaster, and psychological support to those affected by fires in the Blue Mountains area.
Rennie has been providing psychological services in an independent private practice for over 15 years, where he prides himself on offering treatments with a strong client centred focus by providing psychological services including but not limited to focused trauma interventions, relationship enrichment, and combatting suicidal ideation.
He uses his extensive training and experience along with insights from practice and emerging research to offer individually focused, client driven psychological services.
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Counselling Psychologists
Counselling Psychologists use their knowledge and understanding of psychology, psychotherapy, and mental health to treat a wide range of psychological issues, problems, and mental health disorders. They provide assessment, diagnosis and psychotherapy for individuals, couples, families, and groups. They use evidence-based therapies and evidence-based therapy relationships to assist clients to resolve mental health disorders or psychological problems and move toward greater psychological health. They research, evaluate, and develop new methods for improving psychological health and therapeutic interventions for psychological problems and disorders. Counselling psychologists have a distinct philosophical stance, recognising the strengths and resources of people at all levels of psychological functioning, working collaboratively with people in a therapeutic relationship to bring about meaningful change.
Consumers of the services of Counselling Psychologists are persons, groups, and organisations including:
- Members of the public, couples, families, and carers
- Medical specialists, and health practitioners
- Health departments, hospitals, and community practices
- Community groups
- National, state or local government or non-government organisations
- Welfare agencies, educational institutions, justice services, victims of crime, and community services
Specific services of counselling psychologists include assessment and provision of psychological therapy for a wide range of issues and disorders including (but not limited to) anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, grief and loss, relationship difficulties, domestic violence, sexual abuse and trauma, career development, substance-use disorders, eating disorders, and personality disorders.