Angela Koukoulas (she/her)

Angela Koukoulas (she/her)
Psychologist
BA (Psychology), GradDip Loss & Grief Counselling, BachAppSc (Honours), Cert Developmental Psychiatry, CertIV Training and Assessment,

Key Skill:

  • Emotion regulation issues
  • Attachment patterns
  • Low self-esteem, poor self-confidence
  • Stress-workplace issues
  • Loss and Grief
  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • ADHD

Approaches:

  • Cognitive behavioural therapy
  • Schema therapy
  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
  • Interpersonal psychotherapy
  • Mindfulness based therapy.

About me:

I have over 20 years’ experience and have had a broad range of experience across the non-for-profit sector in children, adolescents, and family services, as well as out of home care services, adoption and permanent care, foster care, AOD services and financial services.

I have facilitated presentations and seminars in the private and non-for-profit sector and I have extensive experience in critical debriefing. I have lectured as a sessional Lecturer at a University, and I have held Senior positions in counselling businesses and in the Out Of Home Care system in the northern and western division of Melbourne.  I have been working in private practice since 2015.

How I will help you:

I work with Adults and I have a great interest in ADHD,  attachment styles and the impact of how thoughts affect how an individual feels and behaves.  I enjoy helping individuals create change in their lives, big or little and educate them on how they can improve or take some control of their patterns of behaviours.  I am keen on assisting individuals to embrace their vulnerability and breakdown negative patterns to create new learning styles and “breakthrough” moments to assist with change.

I foster a welcoming, empathetic, and warm approach that helps individuals to explore and develop insight on their goals towards personal growth, positive change and improving emotional and mental health wellbeing.

My three favourite things:

  1. Walking my Mareema sheep dog
  2. Baking
  3. Taking time out for myself, I call it having an “appointment with myself”.