Dr Stefan Rethfeldt

Stefan is an experienced senior Clinical Psychologist offering compassionate, collaborative and evidence-based assessment and psychotherapy for individuals and groups. He works from a humanistic and client centred base and tries to make each session as meaningful as possible for each person.

Stefan’s broad experience allows him to choose from a number of evidence-based approaches to suit each individual person’s situation. He has a special interest in anxiety, mood, personality, trauma, stress and substance related difficulties as well as issues with anger, adjustment and relationships. 

Stefan’s extensive experience in various public and private settings in Germany and New Zealand enables him to support people from diverse backgrounds. He has broad experiences in working with people with acute and complex presentations as well as less severe difficulties. Stefan has been supporting people in community mental health teams and acute inpatient wards as well as correctional, dual diagnosis (mental health and addiction) and private settings over the years.  

Stefan is passionate about tailoring evidence-based approaches to each individual situation and collaboratively supporting people to reach their goals.

Age groups:

• Adults
• Young adults
• Adolescents

Therapeutic Modalities:

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
• Schema Therapy
• Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)
• Motivational Interviewing (MI)
• Client centred and mindfulness-based interventions