About
Dr Ninawa Butrus, Clinical and Forensic Psychologist
Prism Of The Mind Clinical & Forensic Psychology is a private psychology practice based in Melbourne. Dr Ninawa Butrus provides clinical and forensic psychology services, including clinical psychological therapy for mental health issues, forensic psychological assessment reports for criminal court matters and civil legal matters, and clinical supervision and consulting services.
All services are performed with competence, excellence, integrity, impartiality, objectivity, innovation, warmth and kindness.
Dr Butrus provides clinical and forensic psychology services to adult clients (aged 18+ years) throughout Victoria from offices in Melbourne and can also offer some remote online/telehealth services to clients across Australia.
Clinical Psychologist in Melbourne
Personality Disorder Treatment
Specialised longer-term psychological therapy for the treatment of personality disorders, such as dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT), schema therapy and psychodynamic psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder (BPD).
Depression Treatment
Psychological treatments such as interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) to help clients overcome depression and improve their mental health and wellbeing.
Anxiety Treatment
Therapy sessions for anxiety disorders, such as generalised anxiety disorder, panic disorder, and social anxiety disorder, using evidence-based psychological treatments such as cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) to help clients address their anxious thinking patterns, symptoms and anxious behaviours like avoidance, and to develop long-term coping skills.
Trauma Therapy
Trauma therapy sessions to help clients process and heal from the effects of trauma and complex trauma, including dissociation, depersonalisation, avoidance, nightmares, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), particularly for adult survivors of childhood abuse and/or sexual assault.
Therapy for Addictions and Compulsive Behaviours
Evidence-based psychological treatments to help clients identify triggers, develop coping skills, and maintain behaviour changes to overcome substance use disorders and to change behaviour patterns associated with other addictive, impulsive or compulsive behaviours, such as self-harming behaviours, pathological lying and skin-picking.
Forensic Psychologist in Melbourne
Psychological Court Reports
Forensic psychological assessment reports for plea hearings and pre-sentence mitigation (comprehensive independent forensic psychological assessment reports for court addressing issues about mental health/offending and principles relevant to sentencing such as Verdins, Bugmy and Brown).
Violence Risk Assessment
Comprehensive forensic psychological evaluation of the client’s risk of committing future violence.
Offending Behaviour Assessment and Treatment
Specialised clinical forensic psychological assessment and offence-specific treatment of some offending behaviours, including forensic personality disorder, violence, stalking and general offending behaviours.
Court-Ordered Mental Health Assessment and Treatment for Offenders
Specialised clinical forensic psychological assessment and treatment for offenders with mental health issues, including offenders on a Community Corrections Order or Parole Order.
Psychological Evaluation of Psychological Injury
Comprehensive medico-legal assessments of psychological injury claims.
Psychological Evaluation of Parent/Caregiver
Mental health assessment of an individual parent/caregiver involved in family law, child access and/or Child Protection matters.
Clinical Supervision & Consulting in Melbourne
Clinical Supervision
Dr Butrus is a Board-Approved Clinical Supervisor with AHPRA and has many years of experience providing clinical supervision and consultation to psychologists, registrars and students. Dr Butrus also provides clinical supervision and consultation services to organisations.
Supervision services are provided online via telehealth/videoconference to allow for wider access across Australia.
Some examples of clinical supervision include but are not limited to:
- Clinical supervision in the area of clinical psychology
- Forensic supervision in the area of forensic psychology
- Supervision of Provisional Psychologists
- Supervision for registrar program endorsement
- Supervision for personality disorder assessment, diagnosis, formulation and treatment
- Supervision on assessment and diagnosis of DSM-5 psychological disorders
- Supervision on case formulation and treatment planning
- Supervision for violence risk assessments and forensic psychological assessments
- Supervision for violent offender assessment and violent offender treatment
- Supervision for ethical and/or professional issues
- Supervision for professional boards.
Consulting
Consulting work for organisations seeking clinical and/or forensic psychological consultation, service reviews, program design, program development and program evaluations.