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  • My name is Sara Utz.

    My approach to psychology is person-centred, trauma-informed, and neuroaffirming. I provide an LGBTQIA+ safe service.

    Through personal and familial experience I am acquainted with a range of industries including agriculture, trades, the arts, marketing, health and disability across small business, corporate environments, and governmental organisations. As a result I have encountered people from all walks of life.

    I enjoy the regional lifestyle. I have grown up, lived, and worked across Somerset, Lockyer Valley, and Toowoomba locales. In my free time I like driving holidays through the Australian countryside, kayaking, cattle farming, and the occasional spot of antiquing. I am an endlessly curious and avid reader.

  • I adopt an integrative and customised approach for every client, drawing from a range of modalities including:

    • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

    • Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT)

    • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

    • Narrative Therapy

    • Mindfulness and Somatic techniques

    • Choice theory

    • Systems theory

    • Existential psychology

  • I offer services related to:

    Existential concerns

    • identity

    • life / career direction, burnout

    • interpersonal relationships*

    • decision-making

    Change and adjustment

    • grief

    • injury / illness / rehabilitation

    • traumatic stress (including PTSD and complex PTSD)

    Anxiety and mood disorders (e.g., generalised anxiety, social anxiety, phobias, panic attacks, depression, bipolar etc.)

    Gender and sexuality exploration

    Control / coercion / dogma deconstruction (e.g., domestic abuse recovery, religious trauma, cults/indoctrination)

    Psychological assessments**

    • diagnostic

    • cognitive

    • functional capacity

    • behavioural

    *Only on an individual basis (I do not offer couples counselling at this time)

    **I do not provide legal/forensic services at this time

  • I hold general registration with the Psychology Board of Australia. I graduated from USQ in 2021 with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) (Psychology) and subsequently completed my internship parttime over 3.5 years.

    I am a member of the Australian Psychological Society (APS).

    I am a registered Medicare provider for the Better Access Initiative and the Department of Veteran Affairs (DVA). I am also able to provide private psychological services as well as NDIS services for plan-managed/self-managed clients.

  • Psychotherapy

    I work with adults, although will consider ages 15-17yrs on a case-by-case basis.

    If you are an organisation seeking to provide a therapeutic Employee Assistance Program (EAP) to your staff, please reach out to discuss - see email below.

    Assessments

    Ages 7yrs+

  • I currently work Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays in Esk.

    Servicing the Somerset (Esk / Toogoolawah / Lowood / Coominya / Fernvale / Tarampa / Kilcoy) and Lockyer Valley (Plainland / Laidley / Gatton) regions. Also available to take telehealth referrals from further afield (e.g., Ipswich, Toowoomba).

    My appointments and waitlist are managed through the EskPsych clinic - see phone number below.