As a Clinician….
Dr Pene Schmidt is an Australian Psychologist who has extensive experience across a variety of fields including hospitals, schools, private practice, government organisations and universities.
As a Clinical and Health Psychologist, Dr Pene offers therapy for people of all ages for a broad range of presenting issues. These include depression, anxiety, chronic pain, grief, health related anxiety, eating disorders, self-esteem related problems and a range of other psychological and emotional related issues. As a psychologist, she strongly believes in a non-judgemental and collaborative approach, tailoring her therapeutic approach to the needs of each individual, couple or group.
Her practice is informed by evidence-based techniques and underpinned by a cognitive-behavioural framework. Dr Pene applies principles from the field of positive psychology to enhance her treatment approaches. She uses an integrative therapeutic approach, describing her techniques as ‘eclectic’ and including modalities such as acceptance and commitment therapy, compassion-focused therapy, dialectical behavioural therapy, narrative therapy, interpersonal therapy, family systems theory, psychodynamic principles and solution-focused therapy.
Dr Pene believes in the idea that “knowledge is power” and aims to guide people to develop their own resilience-building strategies, tools and resources to better manage unhelpful thoughts, feelings and behaviours.