Our Services
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” – Dr. Wayne Dyer
Support for Children and Adolescents
Initial Consultation
In person or Virtual
- 80 minutes includes 60 minutes of direct contact and 20 minutes to create a treatment plan and recommendations.
- For parents/caregivers/whānau members or professionals (such as educators) who want support, recommendations and strategies with wellbeing, mental health and learning for children & adolescents (ages 3-19).
- This is a solution-focused meeting and a non-judgemental space to discuss concerns with an empathetic practitioner.
- You may be worried about your child’s development, progress at school or behaviour. The consultation is an opportunity to explore and understand further your child’s needs and identify next steps.
- Written summary and recommendations provided as a follow up to the session.
- A prerequisite to the consultation is that all attendees are willing participants and are committed to working collaboratively with one another. Consultations can take place virtually, at a therapy room, or on-site at your child’s school.
- Here are some examples of areas that support can be offered: Complex/developmental trauma, mild or moderate traumatic brain injury such as post-concussion syndrome, anxiety, self-harm, anger, attention issues, self-esteem, depression, sensory needs, etc.
- Possible recommendation to add a session with a child or adolescent to get their voice.
$300 / 80 min
Follow Up Consultation
In Person or Virtual
- 60 minutes (50 minutes direct contact and 10 minutes for treatment notes and plans)
- Sometimes parenting can feel really challenging, and it can be hard to know whether you’re getting it right.
- There’s no such thing as the perfect parent, and we all feel like we’re struggling from time to time.
- Parenting consultations can take place to point you in the right direction. Or you may choose to meet with the psychologist on several occasions to fine tune your approach.
- The 10-session complete Stepping stones Triple P programme is available as an option for parents of children who have been diagnosed with a disability.
- The 8 session Circles of Security programme is available as a personalised programme for parents of children aged 0 – 6 years.
$175 / 60 min
Cognitive and Educational Assessments, Initial Appointment
In Person or Virtual
- Comprehensive assessment is broken into 3 sessions: Total Cost: $1600
- Initial appointment $300
- Assessment sessions $1300
- Reporting and recommendation appointment
There are several steps to the assessment process:
- Meeting with parents/caregivers to gain a developmental history, background information, and an outline of your concerns. This usually takes up to an hour and can be in person or virtual. (Initial Appointment)
- Assessment session(s) with your child/young person. This usually takes 3 – 4 hours and will usually be split over 2 sessions for younger children.
- We send you a person-centred report and targeted recommendations. The report is designed to be succinct, user-friendly, and personalised. Suggestions are focussed upon how you would like the situation to improve for your child/young person.
- Feedback session, in person or virtually, to discuss the findings and fine-tune your action plan.
$300 / 60 min
Therapeutic Services for Children and Adolescents
In Person or Virtual
- 45 minutes direct contact and 15 minutes for treatment notes and plans
- There will be a mix of techniques used such as cognitive behaviour therapy, skills training, social emotional learning, mindfulness practices and experiential learning activities.
- Some areas of special interest and expertise for us include complex/developmental trauma, mild/moderate traumatic brain injury (e.g. post-concussion syndrome) anxiety, depression, self regulation, self-esteem issues, anger, relational issues or overall wellbeing.
Disclaimer: For clients in the more severe mental health category (e.g., suicide, schizophrenia, self-harm) we will recommend a clinical psychologist or psychotherapist as their scope of practice is better suited for this.
$200/ 50 min
Other Psychological Services
In Person or Virtual
- Services such as clinical assessments and screening, report writing, consultation with other professionals or any other services as agreed upon with your practitioner will be ad hoc charges.
- Cost of assessment materials will be an additional cost and will depend on the specific assessment
$120/ 60 min
Traumatic Brain Injury Support
Support for TBI (mild/moderate) such as post concussion syndrome
This service is provided by Sara Soleymani-Alizadeh and is available to children, adolescents, and adults.
The support offered includes counseling for emotional well-being, cognitive assessments (for ages 3-18 only), upskilling for individuals and adults involved in the client’s life, such as caregivers or educators (in the case of children and adolescents), and collaborative development of a personalized plan. Additionally, it can involve a one-time session to provide guidance on accessing appropriate medical support or equipping individuals with the necessary medical language to advocate for themselves while navigating the medical and funding systems.
My interest in this field stems from my personal journey. In 2019, I experienced a concussion that subsequently developed into Post-concussion Syndrome, and I have since suffered from multiple concussions. In an effort to empower myself, advocate for my own healing journey, and stay up to date with the latest research, I have actively pursued various training workshops and extensively studied research studies on this topic.
Drawing upon my educational psychology background, which encompasses understanding cognitive functioning, nervous systems, and emotional well-being, as well as my ability to translate research into practical daily practices, I have been able to identify suitable support and strategies for myself. It is my deep passion to give back in this area and support those who are undergoing a life-altering journey similar to mine. In my approach, I combine my formal training with my personal experiential knowledge gained from navigating this journey myself.
- Disclaimer: For clients in the more severe TBI category or for those seeking medical treatments, we recommend seeking a TBI clinic with more specialist medical professionals in this area.
$190 / 50 min
Support for Adults
Holistic Psychology Counselling
In Person or Virtual
- This approach combines the wisdom and depth of spiritual/esoteric approaches with the practicality of western psychology and science. This is for individuals that may relate to more of a spiritual way of being but also want to do the psychological work to unpack patterns, and overall increase well being. However, it will be adapted to the style that best connects with your own values.
- Disclaimer: For clients in the more severe mental health category (e.g., suicide, schizophrenia, and self-harm) we will recommend a clinical psychologist or psychotherapist as their scope of practice is better suited for this.
$180 / 50 min
Traumatic Brain Injury Support
Support for TBI (mild/moderate) such as post concussion syndrome
This service is provided by Sara Soleymani-Alizadeh and is available to children, adolescents, and adults.
The support offered includes counseling for emotional well-being, cognitive assessments (for ages 3-18 only), upskilling for individuals and adults involved in the client’s life, such as caregivers or educators (in the case of children and adolescents), and collaborative development of a personalized plan. Additionally, it can involve a one-time session to provide guidance on accessing appropriate medical support or equipping individuals with the necessary medical language to advocate for themselves while navigating the medical and funding systems.
My interest in this field stems from my personal journey. In 2019, I experienced a concussion that subsequently developed into Post-concussion Syndrome, and I have since suffered from multiple concussions. In an effort to empower myself, advocate for my own healing journey, and stay up to date with the latest research, I have actively pursued various training workshops and extensively studied research studies on this topic.
Drawing upon my educational psychology background, which encompasses understanding cognitive functioning, nervous systems, and emotional well-being, as well as my ability to translate research into practical daily practices, I have been able to identify suitable support and strategies for myself. It is my deep passion to give back in this area and support those who are undergoing a life-altering journey similar to mine. In my approach, I combine my formal training with my personal experiential knowledge gained from navigating this journey myself.
- Disclaimer: For clients in the more severe TBI category or for those seeking medical treatments, we recommend seeking a TBI clinic with more specialist medical professionals in this area.
$190 / 50 min
Professional Supervision
In Person or Virtual
- Professional supervision for Psychologists working in an Educational / School psychology capacity.
$190 / 60 min
Small Group “Wellbeing in Action” Sessions
3 session package deal (10% Discount)
6 session package deal (15% Discount)
In Person or Virtual
Max 8 people.
- “Wellbeing in action” small group session will be 2 hours long and can be delivered at the place of your work, home, or a different location of your choice. It can also be delivered virtually.
- It can be purchased as a one-off session or a part of a package deal for an ongoing comprehensive program. I highly recommend a minimum of 3 sessions to have a deep dive.
- It can be delivered at the place of your work or a different location of your choice. It can also be delivered virtually.
- This program is a signature service at Two World Psychology. It will be delivered by Sara Soleymani-Alizadeh, founder of Two World Psychology.
See below for more details about this program content as well as the backstory of why it was developed.
Wellbeing in Action workshop intentions and description:
Over the years, I have participated or facilitated trainings where the importance of the adult wellbeing in caring professions were emphasised. Before my role at the ministry, I came from working in an inner-city school in the U.S. for 11 years. Working within the school setting directly with a very high-risk population, I continuously sought out training and practices to intentionally work on my own wellbeing while working daily with complex trauma and high crisis situations. I naturally incorporated and merged the training I received in western psychology with my own upbringing in eastern spirituality in conversations around wellbeing. Adult wellbeing organically came up in many workshops I facilitated for other psychologists, teachers, administration, and all staff in helping professions which was a reminder of the need to create space for this. If it was running a school wide training on developmental trauma or supervising a psychologist, I saw the importance of creating space to empower, reflect and allow others to also tap into their own inner wisdom and values and weave it into their own professional practice. Even when giving information or strategies as a psychologist, I still encouraged others to only take what aligns to their values from the given information and make it experiential learning that works within their own context. Continuing to be in roles of supporting interns and supervising other psychologists, learning support staff, and being in positions to run workshops and support adults who are in caring professions, I feel passionate about allocating more focused and intentional time around wellbeing. I want to support having a workforce where focus on wellbeing becomes a culture and a perspective shift, a way of being in our workplace and not just something we say is important and do occasional practices around it.
Objective: A conscious culturally safe modern psychology approach to empower adults that are in caring professions. This is a proactive and preventive approach to put in workplaces to support increasing protective factors to reduce burnout. This workshop will be delivered in a way that shares both evidence-based practices through my training, but also my own 15 years of experiential learning working with constant crisis and high-risk populations. In addition to information sharing, it also empowers the audience through activities, discussions, and reflections to pull from their own inner wisdom and connect with their own values. My intention is not to just deliver information and research but facilitate it in a way for workshop members to see their own light (Te Ira Tangata) using an immersion of science and spirituality while respecting everyone’s context and values they bring into the workshop. Follow up small group sessions will be a space holder to support their inner transformational journey into empowerment. After our “wellbeing in action” sessions my intention is to have created a self-managed support group that can continue without me if you choose to do so. This will be a work whanau community of support focused on wellbeing vs. just social groups or supervision groups. My hope is for this program to reduce compassion fatigue, burnout, and support with staff retention.
Target audience: All adults who are in caring professions. I would especially recommend those in their first 3 years of career to go through this program as they are exploring their professional identity. The program can easily be adapted to staff working caring professions including managers, leaders, educators, those in mental health professions, first responders, health care professionals, etc.
Duration: I recommend 6 sessions to allow for deep and meaningful discussions with more individualized attention. These small group sessions can follow a full day workshop on this topic or if you prefer small group interactive settings it can be purchased separately as one-off sessions or a package deal. I’m flexible to adapt to your context. Just ask =)
$550 / 2 hrs
Workshops/Training
FREE 15 min DISCOVERY CALL
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FREE / 15 min
Wellbeing in Action: Conscious Science-based Strategies to Prevent Vicarious Trauma in Caring Professions
In Person or Virtual
Max 30 people. Per person fee after that.
- This is a comprehensive “Wellbeing in action” one day workshop. It can be delivered at the place of your work or a different location of your choice or remotely.
- This will include an initial consultation to make sure it is adapted to your context.
- This workshop is a signature service at Two World Psychology. It will be delivered by Sara Soleymani-Alizadeh, founder of Two World Psychology.
- See below for more details about the workshop content as well as the backstory of why this workshop was developed.
Wellbeing in Action workshop intentions and description:
Over the years, I have participated or facilitated trainings where the importance of the adult wellbeing in caring professions were emphasised. Before my role at the ministry, I came from working in an inner-city school in the U.S. for 11 years. Working within the school setting directly with a very high-risk population, I continuously sought out training and practices to intentionally work on my own wellbeing while working daily with complex trauma and high crisis situations. I naturally incorporated and merged the training I received in western psychology with my own upbringing in eastern spirituality in conversations around wellbeing. Adult wellbeing organically came up in many workshops I facilitated for other psychologists, teachers, administration, and all staff in helping professions which was a reminder of the need to create space for this. If it was running a school wide training on developmental trauma or supervising a psychologist, I saw the importance of creating space to empower, reflect and allow others to also tap into their own inner wisdom and values and weave it into their own professional practice. Even when giving information or strategies as a psychologist, I still encouraged others to only take what aligns to their values from the given information and make it experiential learning that works within their own context. Continuing to be in roles of supporting interns and supervising other psychologists, learning support staff, and being in positions to run workshops and support adults who are in caring professions, I feel passionate about allocating more focused and intentional time around wellbeing. I want to support having a workforce where focus on wellbeing becomes a culture and a perspective shift, a way of being in our workplace and not just something we say is important and do occasional practices around it.
Objective: A conscious culturally safe modern psychology approach to empower adults that are in caring professions. This is a proactive and preventive approach to put in workplaces to support increasing protective factors to reduce burnout. This workshop will be delivered in a way that shares both evidence-based practices through my training, but also my own 15 years of experiential learning working with constant crisis and high-risk populations. In addition to information sharing, it also empowers the audience through activities, discussions, and reflections to pull from their own inner wisdom and connect with their own values. My intention is not to just deliver information and research but facilitate it in a way for workshop members to see their own light (Te Ira Tangata) using an immersion of science and spirituality while respecting everyone’s context and values they bring into the workshop. Follow up small group sessions will be a space holder to support their inner transformational journey into empowerment. After our “wellbeing in action” sessions my intention is to have created a self-managed support group that can continue without me if you choose to do so. This will be a work whanau community of support focused on wellbeing vs. just social groups or supervision groups. My hope is for this program to reduce compassion fatigue, burnout, and support with staff retention.
Target audience: All adults who are in caring professions. I would especially recommend those in their first 3 years of career to go through this program as they are exploring their professional identity. The program can easily be adapted to staff working caring professions including managers, leaders, educators, those in mental health professions, first responders, health care professionals, etc.
Duration: This is a one-day workshop with an option of adding follow up small group sessions after the training. I recommend 6 follow up sessions breaking down the group to be smaller (10 max) to allow for deep and meaningful discussions with more individualized attention. However, the follow up small group session is a recommendation to weave in the learning from the workshop into daily practices. However, there’s a lot of value with doing either option as well. I’m flexible to adapt to your context. Just ask =)
$1600 / Full Day
Complex Trauma Through a Solution Focused Lens; A Journey into Empowerment and Inspiration
In Person or Virtual
Max 30 people. Per person fee after that.
This workshop will:
- Support in the understanding of complex and developmental trauma in a way that views learning and behaviour through a trauma lens.
- Provide research on the impacts of developmental trauma.
- Transforms research and science into practical day to day strategies adapted and weaved into your context.
- Encourages a shift in practices, systems and policies that are trauma informed, strength based and culturally responsive with continuous self-reflection at the core of it all.
- Encourages practices and environments that allows children and adolescence to flourish in reaching their full potential (Te Ira Tangata)
(Can also be adapted to have materials on neurodiversity)
$1600 / Full Day
Small Group “Wellbeing in Action” Sessions for those in Caring Professions.
3 session package deal (10% Discount)
6 session package deal (15% Discount)
In Person or Virtual
Max 8 people
- “Wellbeing in action” small group session will be 2 hours long and can be delivered at the place of your work, home, or a different location of your choice. It can also be delivered virtually.
- It can be purchased as a one-off session or a part of a package deal for an ongoing comprehensive program. I highly recommend a minimum of 3 sessions to have a deep dive.
- It can be delivered at the place of your work or a different location of your choice. It can also be delivered virtually.
- This program is a signature service at Two World Psychology. It will be delivered by Sara Soleymani-Alizadeh, founder of Two World Psychology.
See below for more details about this program content as well as the backstory of why it was developed.
Wellbeing in Action workshop intentions and description:
Over the years, I have participated or facilitated trainings where the importance of the adult wellbeing in caring professions were emphasised. Before my role at the ministry, I came from working in an inner-city school in the U.S. for 11 years. Working within the school setting directly with a very high-risk population, I continuously sought out training and practices to intentionally work on my own wellbeing while working daily with complex trauma and high crisis situations. I naturally incorporated and merged the training I received in western psychology with my own upbringing in eastern spirituality in conversations around wellbeing. Adult wellbeing organically came up in many workshops I facilitated for other psychologists, teachers, administration, and all staff in helping professions which was a reminder of the need to create space for this. If it was running a school wide training on developmental trauma or supervising a psychologist, I saw the importance of creating space to empower, reflect and allow others to also tap into their own inner wisdom and values and weave it into their own professional practice. Even when giving information or strategies as a psychologist, I still encouraged others to only take what aligns to their values from the given information and make it experiential learning that works within their own context. Continuing to be in roles of supporting interns and supervising other psychologists, learning support staff, and being in positions to run workshops and support adults who are in caring professions, I feel passionate about allocating more focused and intentional time around wellbeing. I want to support having a workforce where focus on wellbeing becomes a culture and a perspective shift, a way of being in our workplace and not just something we say is important and do occasional practices around it.
Objective: A conscious culturally safe modern psychology approach to empower adults that are in caring professions. This is a proactive and preventive approach to put in workplaces to support increasing protective factors to reduce burnout. This workshop will be delivered in a way that shares both evidence-based practices through my training, but also my own 15 years of experiential learning working with constant crisis and high-risk populations. In addition to information sharing, it also empowers the audience through activities, discussions, and reflections to pull from their own inner wisdom and connect with their own values. My intention is not to just deliver information and research but facilitate it in a way for workshop members to see their own light (Te Ira Tangata) using an immersion of science and spirituality while respecting everyone’s context and values they bring into the workshop. Follow up small group sessions will be a space holder to support their inner transformational journey into empowerment. After our “wellbeing in action” sessions my intention is to have created a self-managed support group that can continue without me if you choose to do so. This will be a work whanau community of support focused on wellbeing vs. just social groups or supervision groups. My hope is for this program to reduce compassion fatigue, burnout, and support with staff retention.
Target audience: All adults who are in caring professions. I would especially recommend those in their first 3 years of career to go through this program as they are exploring their professional identity. The program can easily be adapted to staff working caring professions including managers, leaders, educators, those in mental health professions, first responders, health care professionals, etc.
Duration: I recommend 6 sessions to allow for deep and meaningful discussions with more individualized attention. These small group sessions can follow a full day workshop on this topic or if you prefer small group interactive settings it can be purchased separately as one-off sessions or a package deal. I’m flexible to adapt to your context. Just ask =)
