charlotte ford

Pronouns: She/her

Psychologist and Clinical Registrar

Working hours:
Fitzroy clinic: Monday & Friday 9:00 am to 4:00 pm.

Fee: $260

Medicare rebates available: $163.35 out of pocket fee.

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Charlotte is a passionate psychologist with experience working with clients across the lifespan with diverse backgrounds from regional and metropolitan areas. She is committed to creating a safe collaborative space for people to explore their identities and manage their current difficulties. Charlotte utilises a holistic, trauma-informed approach, empowering clients to gain deeper understanding of themselves and their strengths to confidently manage life’s challenges and develop self-compassion. She prioritises building a strong therapeutic alliance where authenticity and curiosity is encouraged.

Charlotte has a particular interest in working with clients who have experienced adversity, and she is passionate about exploring attachment patterns, sexual functioning and the mind-body connection. Charlotte is also keen to support clients in building effective communication skills, which she believes is fundamental in creating healthy relationships and emotional well-being. Charlotte finds exploring family and sociocultural systems essential to understand how views about ourselves and the world are shaped and to challenge the unhelpful patterns that impact on mental health and interpersonal relationships.

Charlotte is LBGTQIA+ inclusive, neurodiversity affirming and sex positive. Charlotte has experience working with a range of presentations, including mood disorders, personality disorders, anxiety, relationship conflict, gender and sexual identity exploration, neurodiversity, self-esteem issues and trauma-related disorders.

TREATMENT OFFERED

Please use the drop down arrows to view Charlotte’s areas of treatment and support:

    • Sexual pain (vulvodynia, vaginismus)

    • Sexual anxiety

    • Desire difficulties

    • Premature ejaculation

    • Erectile Dysfunction

    • Orgasm/pleasure

    • Navigating differences in libido

    • STI diagnosis

    • LGBTIQ + support

    Does not treat:

    • Kink-specific support

    • Poly, non-monogamy specific support

    • Sex work support

    • Sexual education

    • Sexual addiction

    • Pornography addiction

    • Conflict in a relationship

    • Communication issues

    • Navigating sexual health issues in relationship

    • Feelings of disconnection in relationship

    • Uncertainty about the future of relationship

    • Navigating separation

    • Trust issues

    • Infidelity

    • Support coping with external pressures

    • Learning how to support a partner who is/has experience mental health issues, trauma or abuse

    • Intimate partner violence/Domestic violence

    Does not treat:

    • Exploring sexuality, kink and non traditional relationship structures

    • Pre and post pregnancy support

    • Becoming parents

    • Anxiety

    • Depression

    • Stress

    • Work-related stress

    • Grief and loss

    • Sleep/wake disorders

    • Adjustment Disorder

    • Body image issues

    • Neurodivergence (ADHD and Autism support, not diagnostic assessments)

    Does not treat:

    • Eating disorders

    • Pregnancy related -mood issues and adjustment

    • Substance use

    • OCD

    • Bipolar

    • Borderline Personality Disorder

    • Narcissistic Personality Disorder

    • Schizophrenia & psychotic symptoms (delusions, hallucinations, depersonalisation, derealisation)

    • PTSD

    • Relational/attachment trauma

    Does not treat:

    • Childhood sexual trauma

    • Adult sexual trauma

    • Long term/complex trauma

    • Recent trauma

    • Gender questioning support

    Doesn’t provide:

    • Gender Reports

MODALITIES

  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

  • Mindfulness

  • Emotion Focused

  • Schema Therapy

  • Self Compassion

  • Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)

TYPES OF THERAPY

  • Individual

  • Adults (18+)

  • Adolescents (14+)

QUALIFICATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

  • Registered Psychologist with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)

  • Bachelor of Arts (Psychology)

  • Graduate Diploma of Professional Psychology

  • Master of Psychology (Clinical)