Suite 4 | Level 5, 35 Buckingham St, Surry Hills, NSW 
0478 807 961 
Our broad experience allows us to provide a variety of services
Our broad experience allows us to provide a variety of services
You may be:
Someone needing counselling or therapy
A psychologist or intern psychologist requiring supervision
An organisation requiring specialist consultancy and other support services
Someone needing counselling or therapy
A psychologist or intern psychologist requiring supervision
An organisation requiring specialist consultancy and other support services
Astra Psychology is able to help. Contact us to see how your needs may be met.
Services for clients
Astra Psychology provides quality, best-evidence counselling and therapy.
Our approach is to listen to you and help you to identify strategies that work and empower you to achieve your goals.
You can be confident that we will listen and do our best to understand. We will care and we will be open with you.
We use therapies that work, including psychotherapy, to help you gather insight. We focus on what you can do, not on what might be beyond your present reach.
Services for supervisees
Malcolm is a trained and highly experienced supervisor. Combining a reflective approach to supervision with a strengths-based philosophy, Malcolm will guide and support you. He will also instruct you in the application of psychological therapies such as cognitive behaviour therapy, mindfulness, acceptance and commitment therapy, logotherapy, and solution focused therapy. Based on years of experience he will instruct you about the ethical and legal aspects of the day-to-day work of a psychologist.
One of the best ways to support those who are new to the profession is to provide them with a structured approach to supervision. This involves a detailed Supervision Plan to map out the future, and a structured approach to each supervision session. Malcolm takes a structured approach to supervision. He knows that it provides certainty and consistency for supervisees. He thoroughly and promptly reviews written work. He provides insightful feedback about observed sessions.
Malcolm has a mission! To help psychologists-in-training to develop an identity as a psychologist that is founded on professionalism. He will help you do the best you can for the clients you serve, in a way that is sustainable and that recognises your positive qualities and attributes.
His other mission is to stamp out imposter syndrome. And to make the experience of supervision as enjoyable as possible.
Malcolm is available for individual supervision, and he is very experienced in delivering supervision using videoconference methods. So, he is available for you no matter where you are located.
Please contact Astra Psychology for further information and for details of fees. Group supervision is available.
Services for organisations
Healthcare organisations have been assisted by Astra Psychologist’s principal psychologist, Malcolm Choat, in the following ways:
- LAdvising on ethics, privacy and the intersection between psychological practice and legal requirements. [Note: Malcolm is retired as a barrister and does not provide legal advice or conduct work of a lawyer]
- LDeveloping clinical models of care suitable to the service being provided.
- LAdvising on and drafting policies, guidelines and clinical templates.
- LEstablishing co-ordinated systems of supervision for employees and conducting such supervision.
- LConducting training and group-based learning programs.
- LContributing to Employee Assistance Programs that are specialised to the needs of mental health clinicians and the challenges they face.
- LProviding guidance and support on issues of clinical governance and leadership.
- LAnalysing and advising on issues of risk.
- LMediating workplace disputes.