Welcome to Stand Strong Psychological
Stand Strong Psychological (Stand Strong), is an online and mobile (Government funded Schemes only for home visits), mental health psychotherapy and EMDR service in South Australia for ages eight and above.
Stand Strong was founded by Accredited Mental Health Social Worker Leah Price in 2022 and offers a culturally competent, supportive and collaborative approach to assisting adults, adolescents, children and young people identify, understand and work through mental health issues that are causing distress, concern and in the way of a fulfilling life.
I aim to assist parents with learning adequate skills to facilitate a more consistent and harmonious home environment and family relationships. When working with children and young people I find it important to work with the parent/caregiver with permission form the young person. Parents and Caregivers will receive consistent updates on skills we are working on and strategies on how to continue this at home.
About Leah
Hi, I'm Leah.
I am an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker (MHSW) with the Australian Association of Social Work (AASW), graduating with a Bachelor of social work from Griffith University QLD in 2011.
I have extensive experience in Mental Health Psychotherapy including comprehensive Assessments and treatment/Interventions for adults , adolescents , children.
I myself have lived experience with mental health issues from childhood trauma, and work from that experience offering a person-centered, trauma informed approach where the client is the expert. My professional interest is in Trauma recovery including working from an attachment model and focusing on inter-relationship neurobiology. An important part of my practice framework is to educate clients on the impacts of trauma on the developing brain and how that impact growth, and development across al domains and support clients and families in 'rewiring' those pathways that may be underdeveloped due to trauma.
I am trained in Eye Movement Desensitizing Reprocessing (EMDR) which is a very effective and strongly evidenced based therapy for processing traumatic memories that are stuck in the working memory. You can find information about it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSHuFHFrUis
My passion is around giving people ‘a voice’ and rather than change who they are, assist you to embrace your individuality and creativeness whilst offering skills and strategies to manage behaviors that cause distress and difficulty in functioning.