A mental health psychologist is a specialist that can help identify and treat mental health and emotional issues that may be affecting your life.

This trained health practitioner is not a medical doctor and therefore cannot prescribe medications. Instead they can help you understand and resolve your problems, make changes in your behaviour and in doing so, improve your quality of life and mental health.

Psychologists do this through observation, assessment and experimentation to identify what will best suit each individual recovering from a mental health condition.

They can be found in a range of settings including at schools, in clinics and counselling services. A clinical psychologist is trained in using a variety of strategies including interviews, testing and providing individual, group or family psychotherapy.