Borderline personality disorder (BPD)

People living with BPD can experience intense and painful emotional states that are hard to manage. This can lead to ineffective behaviours that can negatively impact relationships. People with BPD often report that these difficulties get in the way of developing their full potential. Treatment focuses on any trauma that may have contributed to the development of BPD and learning skills to manage emotions and to behave more effectively to live ‘a life worth living.’

Complex PTSD (cPTSD)

This condition arises from exposure to severe, prolonged, or repeated trauma, frequently rooted in adverse childhood experiences. Interventions focus on establishing physical and emotional safety, calming heightened central nervous system distress, and processing traumatic past experiences.

Anxiety disorders: generalised anxiety disorder (GAD), social anxiety disorder, panic disorder, agoraphobia, specific phobias

This cluster of conditions shows up as persistent, overwhelming worry and physiological fear responses to daily situations or specific triggers. Therapy incorporates practical cognitive strategies and somatic grounding techniques to help reduce chronic anxiety and manage panic responses effectively.

Depression
Depression is a common condition that significantly impacts a person's mood, energy levels, sleep patterns, and capacity to engage fully in meaningful daily activities. Therapeutic support provides structured interventions to navigate and improve mood, restore functional roles and routines, and build hope.

Obsessive compulsive disorders (OCD)

OCD involves experiencing distressing, intrusive thoughts accompanied by repetitive behavioural or mental routines performed to relieve anxiety. Our clinical approach focuses on safely breaking these repetitive patterns to reduce distress without relying on compulsive behaviours.

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
PTSD develops after experiencing or witnessing a terrifying or deeply distressing event, leading to flashbacks, nightmares, and severe anxiety. It is common in first responders, defence veterans and early life trauma survivors. Evidenced-based therapies are utilised to safely reprocess and heal the underlying trauma and stabilise the nervous system responses.

Bipolar disorder
This condition causes dramatic mood swings between depressive lows and manic highs which, if untreated, can be debilitating for the person. Clinical care focuses on mood monitoring and stabilisation strategies, and creating sustainable daily routines for long-term recovery. Relapse prevention is key.

Eating disorders: incl binge eating disorder, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID)

These complex conditions involve deeply distressing behaviours, thoughts, and emotions about food and body image. Combining psychotherapy and mental health occupational therapy helps address underlying factors such as trauma, sensory processing differences, or emotional dysregulation.

Psychosis

Psychosis alters the way an individual perceives reality, leading to sensory hallucinations, strongly held unusual beliefs, or disrupted thought processes. Psychosis tends to be episodic in that it comes and goes. Treatment centres on establishing safety, reducing environmental stressors, and enhancing day-to-day functional coping capabilities with view of recovering from acute psychotic states.

Schizophrenia

Often a life-long condition with relapses and recoveries, schizophrenia can reduce someone’s capacity to manage their activities of daily living, reduce social participation and impede work and education goal attainment. It may be characterised by periods of stability and periods of relapse into psychosis. Mental health occupational therapy maximises the person’s functional capacity with skill enhancement and provision of environmental resources to support recovery.

Substance use disorders and addictions

These conditions often develop as an attempt to self-soothe underlying psychological distress, traumatic experiences, or neurodivergent burnout. We utilise a non-judgmental approach to uncover the roots of dependency and build healthier coping alternatives.

Workplace psychosocial injury

Psychological injuries resulting from adverse occupational environments, bullying, or systemic stress require specialised clinical attention. Our dual framework supports practical functional rehabilitation, proactive symptom management, and safe return-to-work pathways where return to work is the person’s goal. We support people on workers compensation.

Family and intimate partner violence

Australian family and intimate partner violence statistics remain high with approximately 23% of women and 7.3% of men experiencing abuse perpetrated by people they are in close relationships with. The effects of this violence can be intergenerational given the impact on children who grow up in violent family environments. Rise therapy can implement therapies to heal survivor trauma and to facilitate navigation of the complex DV support and legal systems.

Grief

The loss of a loved one or of something that is highly valued by a person can have a profound and often life-changing impact on human beings. It can sometimes come with realising our own mortality. Rise therapy can support people facing grief to normalise it, accept it and honour the story that grief tells. Evidence based therapies can facilitate the processing of any trauma associated with the loss.