Dr Geoff Pearce (PhD)

Hello, I am Dr Geoff Pearce (PhD), a Psychologist with 35+ years’ experience. I treat all my clients with compassion, trust, support and a focus on delivering the most appropriate service to enable/facilitate you to achieve your goals.

I have an extensive range of experience as a Psychologist; such as Private and Public, voluntary and involuntary, general public and incarcerated, individual and group, city to rural to remote, ‘worried well’ to major psychological concerns (viz.,schizophrenia), and an array of other interesting situational circumstances. My extensive experience means I have developed an array of skills in being flexible, adaptable, and creative in utilising all available resources to ensure the best quality of product (viz, psychological intervention) to facilitate the most appropriate learning environment for the client. I have conducted sessions one-on-one, groups, in an office, outside on a park bench, in Accident and Emergency in public hospitals, on a river bank, in a locked cell, over the phone and telehealth.

My clients advise me that it is my passion, curiosity, warmth and being listened to and heard that encourages them to open up, discuss their issues and concerns and to continue with therapy. Additionally, they state they like how I explain things such that they understand and appreciate the situation they find themselves in. Clients appreciate my honesty and frankness in explaining how their actions may or may not have consequences, and, what those consequences may be.

I think of myself as an educator; educating people about themselves and how their mind works. I endeavour to teach people to understand who they are, respecting themselves and others, to live with integrity and passion and to become the best version of themselves. I have learnt that people absorb and understand information quicker if it is presented in an enjoyable and happy environment. Often my clients live dour lives, so why make therapy dour as well? I endeavour to bring positivity, passion and humour into the therapeutic environment.