THE ANNA CENTRE

Psychological assessment uses a combination of techniques (including clinical interviewing and assessment tools) to help assess a person’s capabilities and personality. 

Psychologists are the only professionals that are expertly trained to perform and interpret psychological tests. Psychologists use clinically objective and standardised measures to assist in the assessment of clients. They are highly trained and experienced in writing psychological reports that are appropriate for the intended audience.

Cognitive assessment often called intelligence quotient (IQ) testing, is used to determine someone’s general thinking and reasoning abilities. Cognitive assessments can evaluate several domains of ‘cognitive capacity, these domains are:

• Verbal comprehension: understanding verbal information, thinking in words and expressing thoughts in words
• Perceptual reasoning: ability to organise and reason with visual information, and to solve visual problems
• Working memory: ability to retain and manipulate verbal information
• Processing speed: ability to scan, identify and process information accurately.

The assessments that we can assist with are:

Specific Learning Disability Assessments
Can affect how people learn in a variety of ways including how they take in, remember, understand or express information.

Educational Assessments
Many parents are concerned that their child may be struggling in the classroom but are not sure what factors might be getting in the way of their learning. Learning difficulties are where a child experiences problems learning new information, which can significantly affect their achievement at school.

Giftedness Assessments
Determine whether a child is functioning above the age expectation in their ability to reason logically and solve problems.

Personality Assessments
Useful for supporting or informing a clinical diagnosis and to structure and inform a psychological intervention.

Cognitive Assessments
Problems with general mental abilities that affect functioning in two primary areas. Intellectual functioning, which is characterised by the capacity to learn, solve problems and display judgement. The second area, Adaptive functioning, refers to activities of daily life such as communication and independent living.

Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a diverse condition characterised by symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity; and can have a significant impact on clients’ lives.

Child Behaviour Checklist (CBCL)
If your child is depressed, or you are concerned about any behaviors or feelings, speak to your child's pediatrician or another healthcare provider. The health professional can accurately diagnose your child's symptoms and suggest appropriate treatment.

The Anna Centre has an abundance of experience assisting individuals through a range of conditions, disorders and traumas. We offer individual counselling services for various mental health issues, such as anxiety, depression, stress, trauma, and more. We have a large team of psychologists with a vast array of experience and specialties that enables us to help almost any individual. Some of the most common conditions we treat are:

• Depression and Anxiety
• Grief and Bereavement 
• Sleeping and Eating Disorders
• Addiction and Pain Management
• Stress Management

Speak with one of our friendly and supportive staff today to learn how we can best assist you.

We are a specialist corporate psychology firm offering a range of organisational specific services. Our national network of qualified Bendigo therapists allows us to deliver our services to companies, non-profits and government departments of all sizes across Australia.

Our organisational counselling and psychology services include, but are not limited to:

• Organisational Suitability Screening & Recruitment Consulting: Assisting the recruitment process of an organisation and the screening of potential candidates through our trademarked screening system.  
• Psychometric testing and Employee Profiling: Improving the company’s performance through thorough testing and profiling of each employee to guide management through increasing productivity through employee output.
• Training needs analysis: Conducting a review of the organisation’s and employees’ training requirements to improve organisational performance.
• Workshops, Training & Staff Development: An array of mental health and mindfulness workshops, training and specific employee development courses. 
• Employee Assistance Programs: Designated counselling services to an organisations staff. These are delivered in a number of ways to ensure ultimate flexibility for our client and their employees.
• Manager Assistance and Coaching: Working one-on-one with managers and executives to improve EQ, management techniques and staff management to improve overall performance.
• Onsite and Critical Incident Debriefing for groups or Individuals: Psychological support to employees during extreme circumstances including organisational downsizing and restructuring.

For a full list of our organisational psychology services please contact the practice at [email protected].

The Anna Centre provides Psychology & Counselling Services to Groups. From crisis debriefing, mediation and mental health workshops we’re able to assist groups up to 30 at any one time. The Anna Centre can add further value to your organisation in addition to our EAP services.

Our team of skilled psychologists can help businesses, not-for-profit, and government organisations improve the performance, effectiveness and productivity of CEO’s, managers and staff.
A successful workplace should run smoothly like a well-oiled machine. When the well-being of employees is a priority, the organisation as a whole benefits.

• Incident and Trauma debriefing
• Conflict Resolution and Mediation
• Manager Coaching
• Staff awareness / information sessions

We can provide organisations with the tools to better understand, measure and solve internal issues and build high-performing teams.
We use psychological principles to solve problems in the workplace and improve employee well-being. We use a hands-on approach to assist managers to better manage their employees as well as psychometric testing to assist develop your employees, help with team building and employee engagement to encourage greater collaboration.

The Anna Centre has built a diverse team of psychology specialists with a broad array of skills that enables us to assist couples and families through the following services::

• Relationship Counselling
• Marital and Family Therapy
• Child and Adolescent counselling and assessments
• Anger Management, assertiveness and self-esteem classes