Vivienne Caroll is a Consulting Psychologist with many years of wide-ranging experience across adult assessment, counseling and therapy related to personal, workplace and career issues.

Registered with NSW Psychologists’ Registration Board and a full Member of the Australian Psychological Society. Qualifications include Graduate Diploma in Counselling, Graduate Certificate in Psychological Practice and a specialist post-graduate qualification in psychometric testing (South Africa). Medicare accredited and an approved provider of psychological services for several private healthcare insurance companies

In private practice for ten years and with the READ Clinic for the past six, since moving up to the Central Coast from Sydney, seeing a variety of mainly adult clients with widely diverging issues. Special areas of interest are depression, anxiety, traumatic stress, phobias, anger, women with mid life issues, grief, adjustment to change, self-confidence, assertiveness, communication and interpersonal and marital relationships.

Essentially a very practical, solution-focused clinician, a good empathic listener, able to set clients at ease despite their distress, engaging in a partnership to come to grips with the issues, devise strategies and inspire confidence to achieve the desired changes.

In addition, have spent many years in, and have a robust understanding of, the corporate world, in both private and public sectors, in large, including multi-nationals, medium and small organizations. Experience extends across Australia, Malaysia, Singapore and South Africa. Able to work comfortably across different cultures.  Roles in the organizational workplace have included the use of sound psychological principles in the areas of Management and Executive Coaching, People Skills for Managers, Performance Management, Staff Training and Development, Organisational Restructure, Redundancy and Career Transition, Career Planning, Career Coaching, Retirement Lifestyle Planning, Adjustment to Change, Workgroup Climate and Conflict Resolution. Have also been involved in Community Education Programs and training of community volunteer trainers.

Working hours are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, from 9.30am to 5.30pm.