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ULTIVATE COLLABORATORS
Ultivate's community health objectives are achieved by participating community members and organisations that engage in psychological training programs that cultivate personal, social and vocational development.
THE VALUES
ULTIVATE CREDENCE
PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT
Actualisation of the self and our communities
In Motivation and Personality (1954), Abraham Maslow states, "What a man can be, he must be". Maslow's quote refers to self-actualization, which is the highest level or stage in his model of human motivation: the 'Hierarchy of Needs'. To Maslow, self-actualization is the ability to become the best version of oneself. Ultivate practitioners are motivation by the notion that as we become more individuated, self actualized humans, so will our communities become more integrated and less fragmented. It's fundamentally a bottom up approach to positively impacting our society. By seeking to become "whole" humans, rather than prefect ones, we cultivate more pleasant and actualised societies.
HONESTY
To one self and those around us
Honesty is the human quality of communicating and acting truthful and with fairness, as best one is able. It is related to truth as a value. This includes listening, reasoning and any action in the human repertoire — as well as speaking.
Superficially, honesty means simply, stating facts and views as best one truly believes them to be. It includes both honesty to others, and to oneself and about ones own motives and inner reality.
Honesty is an important element in interpersonal relationships, particularly intimate relationships. Social perception of dishonesty can seriously undermine judgements of likeability and social attraction, leading to distrust and realtionship impairment.
CURIOSITY
To one self and those around us
Curiosity is any natural inquisitive behaviour, evident by observation in many animal species, and is the emotional aspect of living beings that engenders exploration, investigation and learning.
CRITICAL THINKING
Accepting Patients Since 2000
Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action. The key critical thinking skills are: analysis, interpretation, inference, explanation, self-regulation, open-mindedness, and problem-solving. Finally, the oldest, and still the most powerful, teaching tactic for fostering critical thinking is Socratic teaching. In Socratic teaching we focus on giving students questions, not answers. We model an inquiring, probing mind by continually probing into the subject with questions. The Socratic method is a form of cooperative argumentative dialogue between individuals, based on asking and answering questions to stimulate critical thinking and to draw out ideas and underlying presuppositions.
ACCOUNTABILITY
Accepting Patients Since 2000
At Ultivate by Andy Solange, I accept patients receiving medical coverage from Polar. Since 2000, I’ve gone above and beyond to accommodate to the unique situation of every patient. Call me and see what your options are today.
CREATIVITY
Accepting Patients Since 2000
At Ultivate by Andy Solange, I accept patients receiving medical coverage from Polar. Since 2000, I’ve gone above and beyond to accommodate to the unique situation of every patient. Call me and see what your options are today.
Modern psychology is here for you!
An Ultivate program can make psychology come to life for you in your workplace, home or community. Let an Ultivate psychologist help you connect better with your work, yourself, others and the world around you.
Accessing psychological support at the right time can mean the difference between a life well-lived and a life filled with challenges.
THE FOUNDER
Andy's Recent Work Experience
I believe in providing clients with cutting edge mental health services that are catered to suit their needs. Since 2000, I’ve helped patients in the San Francisco area deal with some of the most critical circumstances in their lives. I have been working as a licensed Psychologist for a number of years, and am proud to share my qualifications with you.
COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH
September 2014 - August 2018
At Freedom Social Justice Australia (FSG) Andy volunteered and specialised in a wide range of innovative services such as Human Rights in Practice, mental health, in-home support, disability, family and children’s services. She also awarded a paid position at Orana House. Her training included development of human resources skills, staffing solutions, workplace health and safety, bullying prevention, sexual harassment prevention, and cultural diversity awareness. FSG was one of Australia's largest for-purpose community organisation and centre for social enterprise.
VOCATIONAL HEALTH SPECIALIST
August 2018 - October 2019
Andy dedicated 12 months of her internship, at Back2Work, to specialise in holistic vocational health. This mode of vocational psychology integrates specialised strategies to improve the vocational health of clients. W-CBT is a work-focused cognitive behavioural intervention aimed at modifying the way a distressed individual relates to work-related behaviours, as a way to improve personal wellbeing. Andy’s specialisation at Back2Work involved delivering unique academically-based services, product tailored interventions, mental health training, holistic health, work capacity assessments, action-focused medical reporting and digital health such as telehealth. Sessions and group programs were run with results-driven interventions designed to get outcomes quickly and effectively.
PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED PSYCHOLOGIST
Dec 2019 - Current
At Young Minds Health, Andy has been specialising in providing individual, group, and collaborative interventions. The prime focus of her practice at Young Minds is intergating Group Therapy. Her therapeutic work also includes include; management of psychological trauma, suicide prevention, symptom-reduction, stress-reduction, as well as the cultivation of emotional intelligence (E.I), resilience, and mindfulness. Cognitive, behavioural, and interpersonal therapies are the prime models of interventions Andy integrates into her sessions to achieve her client's objectives.
FEE STRUCTURE
INDIVIDUAL
Your first appointment is a 50 to75-minute biopsychosocial assessment conducted by a registered Australian Psychologist.
Individual sessions can be held:
1. In-person
2. Online
3. In the comfort of your own home.
IMPORTANT
1. All following appointments run for 50-minutes and are billed at $195.40.
2. Ultivate's In-Home Service incurs additional fees.
4. Consultation to enhance workplace psychological health and performance is negotiated based on the package required by the organisation.
GROUP
Ultivate's group sessions are 50-minutes long and are led by an AHPRA registered Australian Psychologist.
- Clinical-group programs can attract up to 10 Medicare Rebates in Australia and require GP Mental Health Care Referal and and individual assessment prior to engagement.
- Vocationally-focused group programs can be conducted at the workplace.
- Community-focused programs are offered without cost multiple times throughout the year.
ASSESSMENTS & WRITTEN DOCUMENTATION
$245.40 (Per 75-minutes)
The cost of this service is determined by multiplying the total billable hours by the appropriate hourly rate. Quotes are provided upon initial request.
- Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Testing
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Testing
- Vocational Assessments
- Cognitive Assessment
- Personality Assessment
- Intelligence Assessment (IQ Testing)
- Diagnostic Assessment (DSM-V)
- Functional Assessment
- Brain Health Testing
- Summary Report
- Comprehensive Psychological Report
- Letters and forms
Ultivate is a developing initiative created to participate in the cultivation of modern psychological health.
Founder & Psychologist
Andy Solange
Did you know that if stress is left to fester, it can lead to functional impairment or mental illness?
Overwhelming stress can disturb the way we relate to work, others and ourselves. Unmanaged stress can manifest in social isolation, depression and even suicidal ideation.
Don't allow the quality of your social and vocational life to become impaired by unmanaged stress. A psychologist can help by finding the source of the issue. Your Ultivate psychologist will create a holistic intervention plan that uses psychological science to address the cause of the distress and help you get back to living your best life.
PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
The science of psychology benefits society and enhances our lives.
Psychological science concerns the scientific study of human behaviour and
mental processes. A modern psychologist uses psychological science to shed light on what is causing your distress.
The Ultivate clinician is a science-based holistic practitioner. This means your therapist is trained in the biopsychosocial model.
Research methods, psychometrics, statistics, data analytics and uses the scientific method to create and test hypotheses concerning behaviour and processes underlying behaviour. This helps your psychologist evaluate, understand and use psychometric tools to measure intellectual, behavioural and emotional states.
Holistic practice means that your psychologist will examine the role that environmental factors such as culture, workplaces, biology, childhood history, relationships play on your behaviour, mood and potential.
An Ultivate clinician specialises in interpersonal and communication skills and uses counselling principles and core areas of cognitive and behavioural psychology to help you or your team with personal, social or work-related difficulties.
They apply psychological theories and evidence-based strategies to
address matters relating to human psychological health.
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NEUROPLASTICITY
Practice, practice and and more practice!
Neuroplasticity is a modern discovery in neuroscience. It refers to the brain’s capacity to transform itself by creating new neural connections in response to learning, behavioural modifications, environmental changes, or compensation for injury or disease.
The Ultivate clinician integrates neuroscientific concepts and practices such as:
Use it or lose it
Use it and improve it
Specificity
Repetition matters
Intensity matters
Time matters
Salience matters
Age matters
Neuroscientists have discovered that not only can the brain change, but it is also constantly changing! We can support the changing brain by making small alterations to the way we think and the things we do daily. The more we practice, the more results we receive. The therapeutic relationship between you and your psychologist is understood as the most important catalyst for client change. It creates fertile conditions for restoring the damages created by stress and supporting the growth of new neural pathways fundamental to psychological health.
NEURODIVERSITY
A movement for those who choose to celebrate their neurobiological differences!
The neurodiversity affirming paradigm suggests that, because neurological differences are normal and have existed throughout human history, they should be respected, understood, and supported. This paradigm views conditions such as autism and attention deficits, as naturally occurring psychological phenomena in human neurobiology. These processing differences, in a neurotypical world, can be perceived and experienced as a disability, where a client’s style of functioning varies according to how supportive their environment is or how equipped the individual is with their neurodivergent needs. Instead of looking for ways to change ourselves or others, we look for attitudes and behaviour that can be celebrated and encouraged. A strengths-based approach to neurodiversity is designed to integrate and build on existing theories of positive psychology, positive psychiatry, multiple intelligences, and developmental psychology and to apply them to devise strengths-based assessments and interventions for neurodiverse individuals. In this paradigm, a very strong person-centred approach is used, as well as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy strategies alongside personality development principles.
A BIT ABOUT THERAPY
Guiding You On the Path of Self-Discovery
According to the American Psychological Association, “Psychologists help people of all ages live happier, healthier and more productive lives.” Through the use of various psychotherapy methods and collaborative treatment measures, my patients develop life-changing habits to help them cope with any of life’s various obstacles. My therapy sessions are designed to dissect personal issues and provide patients with effective tools to help them see the glass half full instead of half empty.
INITIAL CONSULTATION FEE
$245.40 PER 75-MINS
With Ultivate, clinical services can benefit from multiple rebates* at the same time.
Initial appointments are conducted in person or online. They run for about 75 minutes and cost $245.40. Follow-up sessions are billed at $195.40 and run for 50 minutes. Group interventions are billed at $95.40 per 50-minute session, and Ultivate's 10-week programs are billed at $945 per participant. Below you will find information about available *rebates, which can help reduce the original fee if this is necessary for you.
Initial consultations are a thorough clinical biopsychosocial assessment session that provides important information to help us create the most suitable program for your psychological health needs. This session includes:
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A detailed review of your history, concerns and all related symptoms
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Digital intake form
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Discussion of therapeutic objectives
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Formulation and hypotheses generation regarding assumptions and coping strategies
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Discussion around appropriate treatment models
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Psychometric tools to assess personality, severity of distress and other symptoms
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Options to access group model and collaborative approaches
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Clinical note-taking
HOW MANY SESSIONS WILL I NEED?
Short-term and long-term models are offered. Short-term therapies focus on how you can improve your life now, focusing on issues you are experiencing in your day-to-day life; long-term therapies look more at the past, helping you understand both yourself and how your past may affect things you do today. Short-term therapy normally lasts from 5 - 20 sessions or three-to-five months.
How many sessions you will benefit from depends on the complexity of the presenting issue/s. However, generally speaking, we have developed a clear outlook of the foreseeable future by the fourth session. Therefore, your fourth appointment tends to review your therapeutic needs and outcomes. At this point, we can determine whether you feel ready to move forward without your psychologist. Some clients tend to move to fortnightly intervention or monthly check-ins during this stage. However, most clients are ready to finish the treatment by their 10th appointment. Of course, a percentage of individuals still stay on board with a more longitudinal approach.
*With Ultivate, you can claim multiple rebates at the same time.