ABOUT

Dr. Sia Bandarian

Clinical Psychologist, BPsych(Hons), PhD Clinical Psychology, IEDTA, MAPS

Hi, I am Dr Sia Bandarian, you can call me Dr Sia. I am a registered Clinical Psychologist and a Lecturer in the School of Applied Psychology at Griffith University. I provide treatment for adults, couples, and group therapy face to face and via telehealth (Zoom). I provide dynamic treatment for anxiety, trauma, depression, OCD, attachment problems, relationship problems, personality problems, and emotion regulation difficulties. I am also an expert in the behavioural treatment of phobias and completed my Doctor of Philosophy on the study of fear and phobias**. In 2016 I completed a 3-year post-doctoral fellowship under Professor Paul Martin (OAM)** on the treatment of persistent pain, and provide treatment for pain, migraines and headaches. Dr Sia does NOT take further referrals or treat female patients with Borderline Personality Disorder.

I also provide services for asylum seekers and refugees in Australia and I am fluent in Farsi, Swedish, Norwegian and English. I am a Member of the Australian Psychological Society and I am a former committee member of the Gold Coast branch. I supervise clinical and research students at Griffith University and I have written several book chapters and journal article publications. I am an advanced Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapist (ISTDP) who completed my core training with Dr Stephen Arthey. ISTDP , is a brief therapeutic approach that is effective for most mental health concerns and in treating persistent psychological problems.

TEACHING

Along with being a clinical psychologist, I am also a former assistant professor at Griffith University Gold Coast Campus.  I continue to teach online and face to face classes on advanced classes on Psychopathology - the study of psychological problems, Psychotherapy - treatment of psychological problems-, and positive psychology - the study of how to live “the good life”.

CLINICAL RESEARCH

I have conducted research in a wide variety of areas but my main focus has been on effectiveness of therapy and generalisation of therapy effects. This means that I have researched what we can make therapy better and what we can do to make sure that what happens in the therapy room translates to real world outcomes. A list of my publications are below: