Lumina Psychology provides personalised therapy with a psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist who has over 25 years of experience.

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Karen McCrea

Clinical Psychologist

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist

AEDP therapist

Karen is a warm, compassionate, seasoned and fully trained clinical psychologist and psychotherapist, with  particular clinical expertise in the treatment of trauma, personality disorders, and working with anxiety. She has specialised training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and a strong interest in working with creative energies.

Who I work with

  • Adults  (18+)

  • Groups

  • Older adolescents

  • Creatives

What I work with

Mental health, emotional problems, psychological issues, relational issues and self development.

In a process of careful listening at depth, I aim to meet people in their inner experience of themselves and where they have trouble with their emotions, moods, beliefs, patterns, memories and so on, to foster understanding of how these interact with problems in their internal and external worlds and with other people (socially, at work, in the family). Generally people identify problems along the following sorts of lines:

•           Anxieties - general anxiety, social anxiety, PTSD

•           Depressions - reactive depression, clinical depression, hard to understand depression

•           Trauma and Complex Trauma, and PTSD

•           Unresolved childhood issues

•           Abuse - including sexual abuse and sexual assault

•           Personality issues and disorders

•           Self esteem & self worth difficulties

•           Relationship issues

•           Work related issues

•           Stress management

•           Grief

•           Life changes and Transitions

•           Creativity and creative work

How I work

Treatment modalities.

  • Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

  • Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Psychodynamic Psychotherapy) therapy

  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapies

  • Attachment informed therapy

  • AEDP (Accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy)

  • Psycho-education

  • Problem solving and pragmatic support

  • Internet/Telehealth

Where I work

My practice is located at 5/48-50 Mollison Street, Kyneton, Victoria.

This is the unceded land of the Taungurung peoples of the first nations.

I also work by telehealth, via the secure platform Coviu.

“Nothing ever becomes real until it is experienced.”

— John Keats