Psychologist & Founder

Are you feeling held back by psychological distress, preventing you from reaching your most cherished personal and professional aspirations?
Do you find yourself wondering where your energy is dissipating, despite your hard work, leaving you unable to fully enjoy the fruits of your labour? Ultivate Psychological Health understands your struggles and is here to offer a tailored therapeutic journey that aligns with your unique needs, natural personality, and long-term aspirations.
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At Ultivate, we are building a team of clinicians who are not only highly skilled in diagnosis and assessment but also dedicated to creating enriching therapeutic experiences that encourage you to flourish in your personal and professional endeavours.
We enjoy nothing more than working with creative, hardworking professionals like yourself, who are driven by a deep desire to leave a positive impact in their society and maximize their human experience by unlocking their full potential.
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Here's why Ultivate is the right choice for your therapeutic experience:
Personalised Approach
We understand that no two individuals are alike, which is why we use psychometrics to get to know you on a deep level. Skilled at creating customised psychological health plans that attend to your unique needs, preferences, and goals.
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Comprehensive Care
We address the root causes of psychological distress, taking into account not just your symptoms but also your lifestyle, physical health, relationships, and environment. This approach ensures that you receive holistic care grounded on enriched practices that nurture your overall well-being.
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Scientific-Practitioner Approach and Evidence-Based Practices
We integrate research, evidence-based practices and experiential techniques into our therapeutic programs, ensuring that you receive the highest standard of care and best results. We stay up-to-date with psychological developments to provide you with effective, science-backed treatments.
Collaborative Partnership
We view therapy as a collaborative experience where you are an active participant in your process. We work alongside you as partners, offering solution-focused guidance, action-centred support, and strength-based encouragement every step of the way.
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Long-Term Growth
Our ultimate goal is not just symptom relief but long-term growth and enrichment. We empower you to develop the skills, insights, and resilience needed to navigate life's challenges with confidence, clarity and optimism.
It's time to reclaim your peace, fulfilment, and a sense of purpose. Take the first step towards a more enriched future by choosing Ultivate Psychological Health for your therapeutic experiences. Together, we'll unpack what is getting in the way of maximising your full potential and help you live the most enriched life you can.
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Message us today or follow the link to schedule your free consultation and embark on a transformative journey towards psychological health and well-being. Your best personal and professional self is waiting to be integrated - let's make it happen together with Ultivate.
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Ultivate programs were created to meet the psychological health demands of modern professionals.​
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My clients receive the best of my unique blend of academic, clinical and vocational health training. I will provide you with the most compassionate, comprehensive, non-judgemental and evidence-based care I possibly can.
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My clinical services attract Medicare, Private Health and Ultivate Rebates.
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Besides my solid foundation in evidence-based practice, assessment, empirical methods and vocational health, I also have field experience in human personality and intellectual enrichment. My rich health knowledge allows me to precisely diagnose and complement your needs with tailored mental health programs based on your therapeutic goals as well as your professional objectives and your natural personality.
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Ultivate clients are accepted selectively to ensure that Ultivate works within its scope of practice. This also creates space for the results our clients expect. So, if you are interested in this service, click the button below to book your complimentary mini psychological health assessment.
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My programs help you harness
the unique strengths of your life vision,
personality and creative potential.
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Through Ultivate, individuals, groups and professionals can access clinical or professional health programs designed to address psychological health concerns and enhance personal, social, or professional performance.
CLINICAL AVAILABILITIES
Assessments Now Available Online!!
Follow the below link to request a call-back or to check your eligibility to participate in
Ultivate's next round of clinical or workspace programs.
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Ultivate's clinical services attract Medicare, Private Health and Ultivate Rebates.
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A free call for a psychological health status and learn about our psychological health programs.
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WHAT TO EXPECT
Science-Practitioner Approach
Andy's programs at Ultivate are founded on cognitive, behavioural and neuroscientific principles. They focus on cultivating interpersonal, mindfulness and leadership skills necessary for individual and professional fulfilment and growth.
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Expect to receive a thorough initial assessment that introduces research-based models. Andy's techniques promote psychological health and stimulate personal, social, and intellectual enrichment. She uses the scientific-practitioner approach to identify therapeutic solutions with a causal-effect hypothesis and create a time-efficient plan to meet your objectives and psychological needs. The scientist-practitioner model encourages clinicians to allow empirical research to influence our applied practice while simultaneously allowing experiences lived during applied practice to shape future research questions. This model makes research more relevant to clinical practice, provides structure and theoretical frameworks, encourages lifelong learning, and, most importantly, includes necessary levels of accountability.
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PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENTS
A Thriving, Flourishing You
To begin, you will participate in a thorough holistic and therapeutic investigation of what you have struggled with across your life. Using an evidence-based approach will help us gather the necessary data to assess how your environment, history, personality, and biology influence how you feel, think and behave today. Asking questions about various aspects of your life means we can make accurate diagnoses and better understand the problem, its causes, and its solutions.
HOLISTIC & PERSONALITY FOCUSED
Here For You
We assess your personality to craft a personality-focused psychological health framework to help you produce the best version of yourself in your personal, social and professional life. This tool puts you in the director's chair of your human experience, orchestrating your life rather than feeling like the world gets to determine who you need to be. Knowing what makes you powerful and vulnerable can better prepare you to engage life in a more fulfilling and enriching way way.
15 MINUTE TELEPHONE CALL
Quality Care
Finding a therapist that matches your personality and your therapeutic needs is essential in achieving psychological outcomes. To help take some pressure off shopping for a psychologist, we encourage you to request a free 15-minute non-clinical telephone assessment to determine if Ultivate Psychological Health is right for you at this time. If talking on the phone is not your thing right now, send Ultivate an email, and our clinician can personally respond to your enquiry.
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ANDY'S BIO
Andy is a bilingual psychologist whose programs serve Spanish and English-speaking groups.
Education and Work Experience
"Cultivating a personally, socially, and professionally enriched human experience is not just the duty of the modern human. I believe it is also the greatest most artistic, and enriching expression of any generation".
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Andy integrates holistic assessment, individual diversity, psychological science, and clinical skills to manage psychological distress, enhance human performance and improve the psychological health of her clients. She is registered with the Health Practitioner Regulation Agency, Medicare, National Disability Insurance Scheme and is a member of the Australian Association of Psychologists Inc. She provides therapy, clinical assessment and training in English and Spanish, and her clinical therapies attract Medicare Rebates, Ultivate Community Rebates, private health rebates, and other forms of funding such as NDIS.
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Andy's commitment to preventing mental illness and cultivating psychological health in society began 20 years ago. Her training and experience include cognitive and behavioural sciences, clinical work, vocational and social health, developing group programs for English and Spanish-speaking participants, and ten years of academic
education and training.
PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Research: March 2003 - Current
Andy is an evidence-based holistic practitioner trained under the science-practitioner model at Griffith and Bond University. In 2013, at Bond Univeristy Andy worked as part of a research team led by Dr Mark Bahr. Their study assessed the impact of biopsychosocial factors on cognitive health. The findings of this study inspired Andy to focus on psychosocial and preventative solutions for enhanced psychological performance and quality of life.
FOUNDER & DIRECTOR
Leadership: January 2001Â - Current
Andy directs Ultivate with the vision of increasing public access to psychological science as a way to mitigate mental health in modern society. Ultivate is a developing psychosocial initiative created in 2017. This growing psychosocial project is dedicated to managing modern mental health concerns by training participants and groups on how to cultivate personal, social, and professional enrichment. Andy's leadership experience commenced in 2001 when she began working with the psychosocial needs of her community at Lifehouse Youth Program. Her junior experience at Lifehouse led her to cultivate professional strengths that harness the benefits of vision, mission and value lead strategies that solve human problems. Her leadership experience spans several sectors, including not-for-profit, private practice, vocational health, NDIS, and community health. Finally, Andy has experience working with culturally diverse cohorts, medico-legal investigations and not-for-profit projects focused on marginalised groups such as persons experiencing disability, unemployment, migrants and neurodivergence.
LIVED EXPERIENCE PRACTITIONER
January 1981Â - Current
At age three, Andys' family migrated to Australia to create a new life with more security and less oppression. Raised by Chilean-Greek parents in Australia, Andy learned to integrate three cultures into her psychological development. Andy's heritage and life experiences gave her a rich appreciation for human diversity, culture, equity, inclusion, and the creative potential of the modern spirit.
Andy was born in Latin America during Chile's last years of militant leader Augusto Pinochet. As an eyewitness to the impacts of intergenerational trauma, Andy underwent years of investigation with a mission to understand human suffering and complexities. Her investigations left her optimistic about the relationship that historical, cultural, environmental and individual factors play in the psychosocial potential of modern humans.
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This introduction to the modern world paved the pathway for her empathic, existential and solution-focused therapeutic style. Andy's husband is French, and she has travelled and lived in four of the habitable continents. She speaks fluent English and Spanish and is currently learning French. At the age of 23, Andy delved into the world of personality research during her time at Griffith University, primarily as a way to understand her own complexities with a non-pathological perspective. She learnt that her sensitive, existential and naturally curious nature produced a unique blend of strengths and limitations in her human experience. Today, she uses these 20 years of research and experience as a large and enriching part of her intervention framework. Thanks to this work, Andy is able to highlight the beautiful, dynamic and powerful forces that make up the natural character of her clients and modern humans.
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"Modern psychology should establish a close relationship with the social and historical conditions of the territory where it develops and, likewise, with the aspirations of the people who reside there."
(Martín-Baró, 1994)
PROFESSIONAL MISSION​
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Andy's professional mission is to support individuals and groups solve psychosocial problems and cultivate enriched intellectual, social, and personal experiences to maintain psychological health and mitigate
mental illness in society.

Niche
Psychological health for Professionals
Workspace Programs
Personality Assessments
Diagnosis & Psychometrics
Report Writing
Groups - Courses - Seminars
Online Interventions
Public Speaking & Day Programs
Health Retreats for Professionals
