EDUCATIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES FOR ALL AGES
Assessment – Intervention – Evaluation – Counselling – Supervision – Professional Development
Children ----- Adolescents ----- Couples ----- Families
I am a Christchurch Psychologist specialising in the assessment, evaluation and intervention support for children, adolescents, adults and families.
Work experience
I have over 10 years experience as a secondary school teacher and have taught science, mathematics and accounting up to senior levels and to adults and to 9 and 10 year old children. I also have over 10 years experience working with children (their families and schools) with behaviour, learning and emotional/psychological challenges as a Specialist Education Services (SES) employee, a Resource Teacher of Learning & Behaviour (RTLB) and an Independent Practitioner. More recently (the past 4 years) I have been involved in Child Custody evaluations.
I have extensive experience and knowledge in the following areas:
- Learning disabilities e.g. Dyslexia and Dyscalculia
- Gifted & Talented
- Intellectual Disabilities
- Low Average and Average Abilities
- Above Average abilities
- Giftedness
- Attention, concentration, hyperactivity problems
- Autistic Spectral Disorder (Autism & Asperger's)
- Adaptive behaviour/Life skills
- Behaviour disorders/ problems /issues e.g. ADHD
- Emotional issues
- Children, adolescent & family issues
- Reader/ Writer for NCEA and tertiary levels
- Study strategies
- Counselling /mediation
- Supervision
- Professional development
- Domestic violence
- Positive parenting
- Behaviour, social, psychological and developmental challenges
Qualifications
- University of Otago
- Bachelor of Science
- Canterbury University, Lincoln College
- Master of Science (Honours)
- University of Canterbury
- Bachelor of Commerce
- Master of Education (Distinction) and Certificate in Counselling
- Christchurch College of Education
- Diploma of Teaching
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Postgraduate Diploma in Educational Studies
- Massey University
- Postgraduate Certificate in Educational Psychology
- Postgraduate Diploma in Educational Psychology
- Professional Affiliations
- Member of NZ Psychological Society and Institute of Educational and Developmental Psychology
- Family Court Association of New Zealand
- Registered with the NZ Psychologists Board
- Trained and accredited in Positive Parenting Program (Triple P)
Sushila Deo (Registered Psychologist, MNZPsS).
Office address: 112 Edgeware Road, St Albans, Christchurch.
Postal Address: PO Box 2536, Christchurch Mail Centre, Christchurch. Mobile. (021) 133 9269, sushilad@xtra.co.nz