ORIT SILBERMAN

Name: Orit Silberman Psychologist
Address: 251 Oxford Street, Bondi Junction, 2022, AU
Telephone: 0414 265 295

Clinical Child Psychologist

ABOUT ORIT

Orit Silberman Child Psychology

Orit has been working with young children and their parents for over 25 years in a multidisciplinary Mental Health Unit for 0-12 year olds at the Prince of Wales Hospital, as well as in her private practice in Bondi Junction. She has gained experience working with everything from normal developmental issues like Terrible Twos/tantrums through to severe and complex mental health difficulties in Primary school aged children.

Through this experience, Orit has added to her training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and become a warm and experienced professional with a passion for helping young children and parents. Orit offers comprehensive assessments and individualised treatment programs, using practical strategies to help the families that she sees. Orit works closely with parents and where relevant children to improve both the child as well as the family's functioning. By only seeing younger children, Orit has a unique set of skills, allowing specialisation with the preschool and primary school age group.

Within the community, Orit has run numerous workshops for preschool parents and teachers- titled “Terrible Twos: Managing 2-5 Year Old Tantrums”. She has presented at several Child Mental Health Conferences, and has given Tertiary education lectures in rural hospital settings on Primary School Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties, including childhood anxiety disorders and oppositional defiance.

Orit is a long-standing member of the Australian Psychological Society (APS), College of Clinical Psychologists (Child Interest), and the Australian Association of Psychologists (AAPi).

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Qualifications include;

Bachelor of Psychology (Science) BScPsych with First Class Honours, UNSW
Masters in Clinical Psychology (MAPS), USyd Child Focus

Registered with the Allied Health Professional body (AHPRA), Orit is also a recognised practitioner with Medicare and Private Health Insurance.

Medicare Rebates for sessions can be gained by obtaining a Mental Health Care Plan referral from the GP under the child’s name. Alterantively, no referral is needed to claim with Private Health Insurance.

Orit offers sessions in person in Bondi Junction, or on video telehealth calls.

Orit is a Board Approved Supervisor, and is available for supervision of Psychologists looking to improve on their child CBT skills, registar Psychologists, both either in an individual or peer supervision group setting.

Individualised community support programs can also be offered.

SERVICES

In her clinical child psychology practice, Orit works with 0-12 year olds- toddlers, preschoolers and primary school aged children - with a variety of emotional and behavioural, attentional, social, sleep and toileting difficulties. These include: Tantrums; Defiance; Verbal and physical aggression (hitting, kicking, throwing, biting), arguing, refusing to listen, swearing, lying; Difficulties following instructions; Separation anxiety; Generalised anxiety and worries; Fears and phobias; Social anxiety/selective mutism; Difficulties falling and staying asleep/ reliance on a parent to sleep; Difficulties with feeding, ARFID (restricted eating); Low self-esteem/confidence; Low mood; Attention/concentration difficulties (ADD/ADHD); Sibling rivalry; Toilet training difficulties; Encopresis/ Enuresis (bedwetting and toileting accidents); School refusal/ avoidance; Anger management and general Family conflict. She also supports parents with adjustment to parenting and improving relationships in the home. Orit also has vast experience working in hospital and outpatient settings with children who experience Somatic complaints eg Headaches, Tummy aches, as well as a wide range of pain and medical diagnoses.

Every referring family is offered a set of assessment sessions- a meeting with the parent(s), and then a meeting with the child to examine the causes for concerns in the child. School teacher opinions and assessments can also be conducted if required.

Following the comprehensive assessment, parents receive a detailed Feedback session, where a formulation of the problem is given, ruling out significant childhood diagnoses.

An individualised treatment plan is written for each child seen, to help parents and children with the changes that they would like to make in their home. The family are then offered a course of therapy sessions, working closely with parents and where relevant the child, to improve the child’s emotional and behavioural wellbeing, leading to a happier and more functional home. Goals are set with the family to meet parental and child concerns, and are worked through until met.

Orit works flexibly with families to offer them the support they are looking for, and works closely with any professionals involved. Onward referrals can be made if other disciplines are considered a useful part of the child's treatment. Most families are able to receive the help they need within the 10 sessions of Medicare rebates per calendar year.

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