Tim Armstrong

Therapist

Tim Armstrong B.A. CQSW, ASW, MIPM is an Australian national, with 30+ years experience in mental health and drug and alcohol addiction counselling. He has worked as a clinician, manager, university lecturer, and development consultant in 4 countries - Australia, UK., East Timor, and Thailand.

He originally qualified as a psychiatric social worker in the UK in 1981, and worked for both government and non-government organizations in London and East Anglia.

On his return to Australia in 1988 he worked on the North Coast, NSW in various mental health management, teaching, and clinical roles. He has always maintained a private clinical and teaching consultancy, including 4yrs teaching counselling and psychology at Southern Cross University. In 2001 he was appointed as Team Leader of the Ausaid funded National Mental Health Project in East Timor. Since the successful completion of that project in 2005 he has lived in rural Thailand with his wife.

• management of anxiety, depression and suicide prevention

• drug and alcohol dependence

• post traumatic stress disorder

• personality disorder

• relationship counseling

Tim has attended many in-service and short term training courses over his 35 year career, and has published articles on a variety of mental health issues, including depression. He prefers to work using present and future focused therapies and to design programmes that best suit each individual, rather than exclusively follow one particular approach. His choice of therapies often includes -brief therapy, CBT, Gestalt, solution focused therapy, Zen meditation, and client centered counselling.