Hi, I'm Anna
MASTERS COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGIST
Unlock your ADHD potential with Anna’s personalised support, blending empathy with expertise in every session.
Anna-Grett (Anna to most), has a Master’s Degree in Counselling Psychology after six years of university training.
With a psychiatrist father and a teacher mother, her career in psychology felt predestined. Her father’s influence embedded a deep passion for listening, learning, and counselling. While her mother’s teaching skills honed Anna’s ability to explain concepts clearly and effectively to clients, especially when using her big glass whiteboard. So counselling is in her genes and connecting with people, her obvious passion.
Since graduating in 2000, Anna has always been in private practice and has had good rapport with her clients and the GPs in her local community.
Now in ‘blossoming maturity’, with two adult sons in their early 30s, and after many years of child and adult counselling, Anna has moved on to only working with adult ADHD women (and a few men) age 21 and older.
Anna’s exceptional ability to connect with people was recognised by Michael Grinder, a world-leading expert in non-verbal communication, during one of his many courses she attended. He remarked that Anna is “the kindest person in the room, and is only as happy as the saddest person in the room,” highlighting her empathetic nature.
Choosing to seek counselling can be a challenging decision, but at Anna Brasher Psychology, Anna is dedicated to helping many women, each with their individual ADHD presentation type. She removes the perceived obstacles and facilitates open, comfortable discussions about their experiences.
Anna knows that through laughter (therapy can be fun) and tears (such is life), we can conquer any ADHD challenge!
Anna’s office is her ‘Happy Place’, so take the steps to make an appointment… and join her there.
Anna’s Healing Space
Why choose Anna
A Genuine Interest in ADHD
Anna understands ADHD from both a personal and professional point of view. Since her own late diagnosis in her fifties, she has focused on helping other women both younger and older, better understand and manage their ADHD challenges. Along the way, she has spent many hours hyper-focussed on learning everything she can about ADHD.
ADHD in Women - Who knew ?!
Years ago, Anna diagnosed many ‘naughty little boys’ with ADHD and no little girls – a condition then thought to present only in childhood and researched mainly on boys.
Following her own diagnosis and recognising the lack of ADHD knowledge among diagnosing professionals, Anna is focussing her practice on women over 21 with ADHD, whether diagnosed in childhood or not.
Therapeutic Approach
‘Different strokes for different folks’…and therapists. Anna adopts an eclectic approach, using the best methods from different approaches and tailoring them to each client’s individual needs. She believes in a holistic approach that supports body, brain and mind.
Anna compares adult ADHD to an old dog learning new tricks; challenging but not impossible.
Communication Skills
Effective communication is crucial for successful therapy.
Anna’s big glass whiteboard is an essential tool, considering that almost half of all brain networks deal with vision.
Clients are encouraged to take photos of the board to help remember what they learned.
The board is also for clients to use, allowing them to draw what they are trying to explain.
Personal Compatibility
Reseach shows that positive therapist-client relationships, lead to better outcomes for their ADHD.
Anna makes it clear from the start that she might not be the right psychologist for every client and will inform them at the end of the first session if she can help them.
She acknowledges that everyone has different expectations and comfort zones that determine compatibility.
If she is not the right fit, Anna is happy to help find the right psychologist.
Availability and Accessibility
Anna is available for 60-minute sessions (50 minutes for the session and the remaining 10 minutes for rebooking and admin).
Anna prefers new clients to have face-to-face sessions for the first six sessions before considering online consultations.
Occasionally, Anna agrees to phone consultations if she has known a client for more than 10 sessions.
Anna takes annual leave in December for African overlanding-safaris, so new clients are not accepted from November until her return around Australia Day.
The Lighter Side
When people sit upon my couch
Their life’s story to relay
Of anxiety and depression
Grief and loss, or just dismay
There often comes a moment
When laughter lightens up the past
Sometimes through tears and broken words
The funny side of life is cast
When a serious recollection
In words just comes out wrong
We laugh at our own creation
A quick escape from life’s dark song
Then together we can sit and smile
At sad and silliness instead
Not take away from it’s importance
Or significance in our heads
But create a little distance
Shine light on the things we hide
Gain a different perspective
When we see the lighter side
-Anna Brasher
Anna offers a personal
counselling experience where . . .
All the contact
with you is personal
Only Anna is ever 'in your file' so your details remain private and confidential. Only Anna has access to her encrypted, paperless practice management software.
Anna can help make your bookings
If you feel overwhelmed by the thought of making an online booking yourself, Anna is happy to make you a booking over the phone. Please give her a call.
There is no
practice signage
Anna Brasher Psychology is in the Corporate House office block. There is no additional practice signage. Simply wait for Anna to fetch you in reception.
Anna's practice
systems are secure
Anna's online booking and digital bank card storage systems are encrypted and at a 'bank safe' level - as one of her clients (who works in bank security) confirmed.