CityLife Community Care Health Related Services

Dietician - Carmen Arendse

Good nutrition is vital for healthy living. Carmen is an expert in food and nutrition. She can help promote good health through correct eating and by developing individualized nutritional care plans.

• Cardiovascular Disease
• Diabetes
• Obesity and Weight Loss
• Aged Care
• Eating Disorders
• Malnutrition including under-nutrition due to poverty, lack of nutritional knowledge
  or disease conditions e.g. cancer
• Gastrointestinal Disorders
• Sports Nutrition
• Paediatric Nutrition
• General Nutrition

Life Coach – Collette Chang

Life Skills Coaching

If you are struggling with some of the following, a coach can help:

• Work Life Balance
• Juggling Finances
• Effective Time Management
• Health and Fitness Management
• Tolerations and other Energy Zappers
• Breaking Destructive Habits
• Decision Making
• Delegation and Time Management
• Conflict Resolution
• Making Tough Decisions
• Personal Motivation

“Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.”

Naturopath - Penny Hayes

Penny’s practice brings together a wide knowledge of herbal and nutritional medicine, dietary and lifestyle tailoring and massage to assist patients to achieve and maintain good health.

Conditions which benefit from Naturopathic treatment include:

• Fatigue and recurring illness
• Blood sugar imbalances including diabetes
• Headaches
• Cardiovascular problems, eg. high blood pressure
• Gastro intestinal problems, eg. bloating, constipation
• Hormonal disturbance both male and female
• Pain
• Sleep problems

Psychologist – Catherine Chan

Catherine Chan aims at providing professional and compassionate counselling services to the Christian community as well as the general public. Areas of expertise include:

• Addressing the wholeness of a person (psychological, sociological, biological & spiritual).
• Coaching and Mentoring with a focus' on spiritual needs.
• Conducting workshops on basic life skills (i.e. stress management).
• Conducting workshops on basic counselling training for pastoral care staff.
• Providing a professional counselling service with a Christian approach.
• Offering secondary consultation to pastoral and counselling staff at their local church.
• Making professional counselling an accessible and affordable service for the whole community.
• Cross cultural counselling
• Eating disorders
• Adolescent issues
• Adjustment issues.

Catherine comes with a wealth of experience in providing continued care for people who are in need.

Catherine is a registered psychologist with a Medicare Provider Number and is also registered with:

• Medibank Private & other health insurance companies
• T.A.C
• Victims Referral
• Workcover

Visit www.soteriaconsulting.com for more information.

Psychologist – Jacob Topy

Jacob Topy is a Psychologist who will be working at CityLife Community Care on Thursdays.

Jacob has a particular interest in adolescent and men’s issues.

Areas of expertise include:

• Relationship Counselling—Individuals, couples and family issues.
• Work Related Issues such as career development, rehabilitation following accident or injury and dealing with retrenchment or burnout.
• Education—School Problems, study or learning difficulties, behavioural issues, motivation, formal testing.
• Everyday living—including anger/conflict, anxiety/phobias , grief and loss, stress/relaxation, sleep problems, depression, mood disorders and addictions.

Jacob is registered with:

• Medibank Private & other health insurance companies
• T.A.C
• Victims Referral
• Workcover

Probationary Psychologist

Lorraine McGregor has an education and business background and is working towards getting her Psychologist registration this year. She has seven years experience in working as a counsellor and probationary psychologist. Lorraine works with adolescents and adults (including couples). She specialises in: grief and loss, relationships, depression and anxiety, separation and divorce, abuse, sexuality, anger and conflict.

Speech Pathologist – Linda Leigh

A Speech Pathologist is someone who has been professionally trained to assess and treat communication difficulties.

A Speech Pathologist works with people who have a problem with:

• Language – particularly people who find it hard to understand or to use spoken or written words.
• Speech – especially people who have difficulty pronouncing sounds or who have a lisp.
• Voice – particularly people who use their voice a lot or who want to change their voice quality.
• Stuttering
• Hearing Loss – including children who are hearing impaired and who are finding it difficult learning speech and language or adults who become hearing impaired and need help to adjust.

In addition, a speech pathologist provides counselling, advice and information for families and caregivers on issues associated with speech difficulties. They work closely with other health, education and community service professionals.

Initial assessment may take 1-2 sessions depending on the nature of the communication difficulty. Assessment involves information gathering, listening and a lot of talking.

Treatment or intervention may involve a program to be completed at home or school with visits to the centre to check progress or weekly, fortnightly or monthly sessions. Referral to other specialists for assessment may at times be appropriate.

Barrister & Solicitor - Mary Boardman

Mary works at CityLife Community Care on Monday & Wednesday mornings. Her services include:

• Commercial agreements
• Conveyancing
• Deceased Estate / Probate
• Family Law
• Leases
• Wills

Schedule of costs are available upon request.