Dr Sharon Gold,
Senior Consultant Psychologist
GradDipPsych, BA (Psych)(Hons)
PhD, MAPS
Dr Sharon Gold loves working with couples and individuals. A trauma-informed approach using the latest neuroscience and evidence based psychological therapies for your psychological treatment. Her special interest areas include PTSD, childhood and intergenerational trauma, emergency services personnel with PTSD, depression and anxiety disorders and addiction. She also really enjoys working with transgender and personality disorders.
In couples and marriage counselling, Dr Gold can help you with a wide variety of issues including money, communication, affairs and betrayal, parenting, growing apart, conflict, addiction, emotional and physical intimacy and fertility issues. She can also help you to separate and divorce well.
Having been the partner of a Police Officer for 27 years, Dr Gold is also very familiar with the issues facing emergency services couples as she is one half of an emergency worker couple, and understands the impact that chronic PTSD, depression, and substance abuse and other disorders have on the relationship and family system.
Her style is direct but empathic and compassionate. She is a big believer in using the best possible evidence based psychological treatments and always strives to help you go beyond symptom reduction to achieve permanent psychological change because she is a bit of a perfectionist and truly wants the best for you!
Dr Gold describes her approach to therapy as trans-diagnostic, integrative or eclectic which basically means that when she is treating you, she draws from multiple therapeutic modalities which enable her to treat your unique presentation of psychological symptoms. She is trained in Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR), Attachment-Informed EMDR, Gottman Method Couples Therapy, Emotion Focused Couples Therapy, Cognitive Behaviour Therapies (CBT), Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Schema-Focused Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Trauma-Sensitive Yoga, and Clinical Hypnosis.
Dr Gold is fully registered with the Psychology Board of Australia as a Psychologist with General Registration and offers supervision to other psychologists and Clinical Psychology registrars in training. She holds full memberships with the Australian Psychological Society, International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies, and EMDR Association of Australia and the Australian Centre for Emotion Focused Couples Therapy. She is committed to lifelong learning and subscribes to relevant journals and databases so that she can remain current in the latest neuroscience and knowledge of the most effective psychological treatments and interventions.
On a personal note, Sharon loves spending time with her family, friends and Max, her beautiful therapy dog who is with her in the clinic every day. She is a keen student of Kabbalah and Buddhism and loves running, walking, functional exercise, eating clean and practising Hatha and Bikram yoga. She also loves the beach, reading up on clinical psychology, trauma and neuroscience, and in her spare time enjoys watching and reading crime and historical documentaries and stories, listening to podcasts and travelling overseas to explore our wonderful planet.
Call 1800 883 926 for your 15 minute free phone consultation