Eccentric Minds is currently offering professional supervision for health practitioners and academic mentoring for university students studying mental-health related courses.
Yelka is an AHPRA board-approved supervisor with a wealth of therapeutic and assessment experience, supporting primarily adult clients across a wide range of presentations including PTSD, psychosis, personality disorders, gender dysphoria, eating disorders, OCD, anxiety, ADHD, autism and depression.
Yelka has worked as a psychologist across a variety of roles in public and private hospital, in acute and early-psychosis community mental health team, employee assistance, private practices and refugee services. She has particular skills and training in CBT, DBT, Schema Therapy, ERP and other therapeutic modalities.
As a board-approved supervisor, Yelka offers supervisees a supportive, empowering and inclusive space to develop their professional identity. She draws on her experience to help supervisees bridge the gap between theory and practice, with a strong focus on ethical, accessible and affirming care.
Yelka is available to provide primary or secondary AHPRA board-approved supervision services to 4+2 and 5+1 psychology supervisees completing their internships, as well as psychologically focused supervision for early career psychologists and other allied health professionals (counsellors, therapists, etc).
Yelka has been providing academic mentoring and tuition services to university students studying undergraduate and postgraduate psychology in Australia since 2015.
Based in her personal experience studying psychology at Macquarie University and the Cairnmillar Institute, as well as her university teaching and marking experience, Yelka provides comprehensive and adaptive 1:1 mentoring and written assignment feedback for current psychology students.
She also provides academic feedback for theses, masters applications, case reports, interpreting statistical output and mentoring for psychology students who want to learn about their options for psychology-focused career pathways.
Eccentric Minds - Psychology would like to acknowledge the Gadigal and Wangal peoples of the Eora Nation, and the Wallumedegal people of the Darug Nation, the traditional custodians of the land for which our services are provided. We pay our respects to Elders past, present, emerging and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.