Sonia Sezenias

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Sonia Sezenias

Registered Psychologist
B.A. B.Sc (Psychology) (Honours).
Psychology Board of Australia (AHPRA)
Applied Behaviour Intervention Association

Therapeutic Approach

  • Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

  • Mindfulness

  • Interpersonal Skills Therapy

Areas of Expertise

  • Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychological Assessment

  • Psycho-Educational Assessments – cognitive, behavioural and academic

  • Full Autism (funding for schools) ODD and ADHD assessments

  • Behaviour therapy for Aspergers boys and girls through to teens and

  • Adults on the spectrum

  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder behaviour therapy

  • Executive Function Assessments

  • Generalised Anxiety

  • Social Phobia

  • Depression

  • Assertiveness training

  • Improving Executive Functions

  • Social Skills training

  • OCD

School Issues

  • Identifying learning problems

  • School refusal

  • Attention problems

  • Difficulty with emotional regulation, following instructions

  • Impulsive behaviours

  • Autism

  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

  • Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)

  • Learning Difficulties

  • Dyspraxia/Dislexia/Dyscalculia

  • Challenging behaviours

  • Bullying

Background

Sonia is skilled in assessment and diagnosis, particularly in identifying learning difficulties, Autism, ADHD and mental illness to
enable more accurate planning of treatment. Sonia also offers counselling and therapy.

Sonia has a scientific evidenced based approach and is very passionate about teaching research based strategies to parents, teachers and individuals on the spectrum (across the lifespan) or with ADHD (all age groups) to better their lives and to achieve their potential. Sonia has worked as an Applied Behaviour Therapist with children on the spectrum and as a Behaviour Change Interventionist employed by families to identify target behaviours through functional analyses at schools, homes and kindergartens.