Shona Innes Psychology provides assessment and treatment for children, young people and adults with appropriately referred and eligible Medicare health plans, private referrals and WorkCover clients.
Generalised anxiety and worry, specific fears and phobias, compulsions and OCD, health anxieties, separation anxieties, schoolrefusal, PTSD and trauma
Lowered mood, adjustmentissues
Abuse, family violence, neglect, family separation, traffic accidents and grief
Naughtiness, Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), conduct disorder and youth offending including sexual offending, ADHD and attention issues
Shona Innes Psychology also provides applied behaviour analysis for a range of challenging behaviour: Anger, tantrums, self-harm, hurting others and property damages.
Working with angry young people
Autism Spectrum Disorders and offending
Parenting, difficult behaviours and meltdowns
Understanding and responding to self-harm in young people
Managing and responding to child and adolescent sexual behaviours
Teenage Girls – Things you Should Totally Know
A forensic psychologist working to help troubled people and their carers, Dr Shona Innes is known for her ability to apply an overarching professional perspective in highly emotive circumstances where conflicting priorities and multiple stakeholders must all be considered, while remaining focused on providing the best possible outcome for children and young people at risk.
A champion of practical and useful reporting, Shona compiles succinct and meaningful risk assessment and pre-sentencing reports that deliver recommendations offering clear direction for authorities and carers of young people who find themselves in trouble with the Law, involved with pornography or who are the victims or perpetrators of violent crime or domestic violence.
Expert witness for the courts & legal processes
Sought-after for her high level professional qualifications, experience in complex cases (especially involving young people), and balanced approach and working-knowledge of legal processes, Shona Innes is regularly called upon to provide her professional opinion for the courts.
Dr Shona Innes is renowned for her understanding of the conflicting requirements of various processes and network of agencies and systems. She has decades of experience working with complex and risky presentations and with those who sit at the intersection of a range of different providers simultaneously. She is therefore sought after as a consultant for her ability to bridge the gaps and formulate solutions that achieve workable, happy and safe outcomes for all involved. Shona Innes Psychology provides consulting services as follows:
Courts, tribunals, parole boards and legal professionals
Mental health services
Disability support
Corrections and youth justice
Child protection agencies
Trauma support agencies
Implementation of treatment for young people and adults at risk for a broad range of issues that include difficult and complex behaviours that cross social boundaries to criminal activity, violent crime, domestic violence and substance abuse or pornography addictions. Dr Shona Innes also works with young people and adults who have been traumatised or affected by crime. Their problems can extend to self-harm, eating disorders, attention and learning difficulties and complex mental health outcomes.
Self-care support is essential for addressing professional and personal burn-out among carers that results from the enormous stress associated with the case load and severity of circumstances affecting their clients.