About Dr. Curtis:

Dr Curtis's professional practice adheres to the APS Code of Ethics & Private Practice Management Standards.  She is actively involved in the APS Professional Development program aimed to promote the maintenance & improvement of quality psychological services and has completed a Certificate IV Business Management ensuring quality business practice.

Dr Curtis lectures Psychopharmacology to Masters/Doctoral postgraduates and tutors Abnormal Psychology to undergraduates at Swinburne University of Technology. She has a number of important research & clinical interests including the phenomenology of psychotic depression, anxiety/depression co-morbidity, medical psychology, psychological recovery and resilience.  She publishes in the areas of psychoanalysis and narcissistic personality disorder in peer-reviewed academic journals & has been an invited reviewer.

Dr Curtis does not give advice but helps you to explore alternatives so that you can make the best possible decisions for yourself.  Important things to remember about psychological treatments are that it can be hard work to change feelings, thoughts and behaviour - you have to be ready to commit yourself to attend sessions regularly and follow through on recommendations jointly agreed upon by the therapist and client. One thing that cannot be changed is the past but you can change how it affects you in your daily life.