Dr Wolfgang Mayr, AAPi
Dr Wolfgang Mayr is a Clinical Psychologist and accredited Supervisor. He has over 40 years of experience helping clients from diverse cultural backgrounds with difficulties including anxiety and depression, burn out, grief & loss and life transitions. Wolfgang has a particular interest in working with clients in later stages of life.
He provides psychological therapy tailored to clients’ needs and draws on techniques from psychodynamic psychotherapy, Compassion Focused Therapy, CBT, art therapy and Solution focused Therapy.
Wolfgang has also many years of experience providing supervision and consultation to psychologists and other mental health professionals.
He has worked in tertiary counselling settings in Austria (his country of origin) and Australia as well as with clients of diverse age groups in private practice. Wolfgang has also experience in working in group settings. Wolfgang has undergone extensive training in psychodynamic therapy in Vienna/Austria.
Wolfgang is registered with AHPRA (Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency) with endorsement in Clinical Psychology, and is a member of AAPi (Australian Association of Psychologists Inc.).
Wolfgang provides his services in English and German
Supervision for Psychologists, Registrars and Mental Health Professionals
Wolfgang is a Psychology Board of Australia (AHPRA) approved supervisor with endorsement in Clinical Psychology. He particularly enjoys providing supervision and peer consultation to fellow psychologists, registrars, and mental health professionals.
Wolfgang has experience providing supervision to other psychologists including those earlier in their career, and health professionals in diverse fields. He has assisted psychologists to achieve endorsement in Clinical Psychology. He also has experience in working with groups.
Sessions can be conducted in person in practices in Brunswick and Fitzroy or online.
GRIEF AND LOSS
We all experience loss in the journey of our lives. Loss can come in many forms: a death in your family or amongst friends, a break up of a relationship or marriage, loss of a pet, losing your job and financial stability, retirement, loss of quality of life with health issues, loss of independence, loss of your home/ habitual surroundings and more.
Loss is an inevitable part of our lives, and it can cause painful experiences of grief lingering on for a long time (or never go away completely). These painful emotional experiences might include sadness, anxiety, despair, emptiness, anger, guilt, shame, a sense of helplessness and meaningless. All these feelings are normal emotional reactions to loss. They can be painful, confusing, they might also be against expectations of others and/ or yourself.
Acceptance of these emotions is an essential first step towards coping, and sometimes it might be hard to find a person to talk to openly. Speaking to a psychologist is often helpful to understand yourself (and be understood), so that you can cope better and make progress.
Wolfgang has extensive experience in dealing with grief and loss as a therapist. His therapeutic approaches are based on compassion focussed therapy (CFT) and psychodynamic therapy, and are also informed by the works of Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross and David Kessler. You might find the following link useful for further information: https://grief.com/
