Psychologists

Dr Ruth Ingrid Sturmey
MA, BD, PhD, Grad Dip App Psych, Dip Ed, Dip TEFL

Dr Sturmey is a very experienced psychologist and counsellor who works with individuals, couples and families. She is a specialist in intimate and family relationships, emotion regulation and ‘mood disorders’.
 
She also works with serious mental health conditions, compulsive behaviours, suicidality, sexual difficulties, trauma, and issues around life meaning, aging, sickness and death.
 
Sessions referred by a General Practitioner under a Mental Health Care Plan are eligible for partial Medicare reimbursement.
 
Dr Sturmey is available for consultation at Medical Specialists on Collins each Monday and Wednesday afternoon. 

For appointment please phone her directly on 0432 435 399.

Mr Danny Bryant
MPsych, MAPS, Registered Clinical Psychologist

Mr Danny Bryant has a Master of Psychology and is an experienced Clinical Psychologist who previously worked at Victoria Police for 6 years before commencing full-time private practice in 2008. He also has experience in treating oncology patients, having provided group therapy at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and the Alfred Hospital for men who have suffered prostate cancer. He has training and experience in a range of therapeutic approaches including brief, symptom focused interventions, such as cognitive behavioural therapy and interpersonal therapy. He is also able to offer psychoanalytic focused treatment, which may suit those patients who have not responded to briefer, symptom-focused interventions
 
Danny is available for consultation at Medical Specialists on Collins each Monday morning.  For appointments please phone Danny directly on 0403 746 161.