About
Integrate the now, Improve the future.
Amanda Oliver launched Integrate Therapy & Consulting in 2020, after years supporting people to integrate the intersecting parts of daily life.
Amanda launched Integrate Therapy & Consulting in 2020 after working as a sole practitioner supporting individuals to integrate intersecting aspects of daily life. The opportunity to bring together personal development, career, family responsibilities, health and relationships is central to her vision.
Her commitment to the mental health and wellbeing sector stems from an early career as a high school teacher and school leader, where she experienced frustration at the lack of support available to young people and their families.
Amanda has extensive international experience across education, health and welfare. She specialises in complex issues affecting adolescents and their families, including behaviour, personality disorders, risk taking, anxiety and depression, self-harm and suicidal ideation. These issues often recur in adult relationships and affect daily life.
With a keen interest in recognising the cause or onset of symptoms, Amanda adopts a psychoanalytic approach and is a Psychoanalyst in formation with the World Association of Psychoanalysis. This is an ambitious form of therapy aimed at stimulating change as you come to understand patterns of repetition or dissatisfaction in your life. She is passionate about not just alleviating symptoms, but helping people understand and resolve patterns of behaviour.
Amanda works well during intense situations and emotional crisis. She is a trained mediator, having facilitated restorative justice between young offenders and victims of crime, and frequently mediates family disputes and workplace issues.
Areas of interest
- Addiction
- Adolescents
- Anger
- Anxiety and depression
- ATAR exam and school stress
- Body image issues
- Dissociative disorders
- Eating disorders
- Emotional crisis
- Exclusion, bullying & isolation
- Family relationships & conflict
- FIFO lifestyle
- Life transitions
- Youth mental health
- Panic disorder & attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-development & self-esteem
- Self-harm & suicidal ideation
- Sleep disturbances
- Stress and work-life balance
- Traumatic experiences
- Troubled teens