Revival Psychology is a Brisbane-based clinical psychology practice run by experienced clinical psychologist, Dr Matthew Evans. Matthew is a registered, Oxford-trained clinical psychologist with over 17 years experience in the field.
Matthew takes an empathic and evidence-based approach to helping people deal with life’s challenges. He believes that all people can find emotional health, healing and hope in their lives, and assists people to achieve this by taking a non-judgmental, sensitive and collaborative approach, finding the right approach and fit for each individual, to achieve excellent outcomes. He provides individual therapy to adults, adolescents and couples.
Matthew has worked in the field of psychology since 2000. He holds a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (DClinPsych) from the University of Oxford, England. Alongside his private practice he also provides clinical supervision to extern and intern students from the University of Queensland and Griffith University, as well as to other registered psychologists. His background includes experience in medical inpatient and outpatient settings, having been the former primary psychologist providing services for Internal Medicine and Surgery at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, where he ran specialty clinics for people with chronic health conditions including endocrine (diabetes), respiratory, cardiac and gastroenterological conditions. He also has experience working with children and families and he has been trained and certified under the Triple P program. Matthew has run his own private practice alongside his other clinical work and supervision commitments, since 2010.
Matthew’s Approach
Matthew uses a range of approaches depending on his client’s individual needs. There are many different psychological approaches that have been found to be highly effective in the literature, but the research provides less guidance as to who responds well to which approach. The challenge for psychologists is to find the approach that works well for the person who is in the room with them. In order to meet this challenge, Matthew has trained in several different approaches. After the initial assessment session, the merits of different approaches are discussed. Matthew then uses clients’ experience of therapy, both in terms of how they find sessions but also whether they are feeling better, to decide whether to continue with a specific approach or change to another approach that might work better. He does not believe that therapy should be a “one size fits all” process. He prefers therapy to be collaborative and wants his clients to know what options they have available to them and provide feedback about what is working and not working for them so that he can tailor therapy to better suit. Matthew also is highly committed to achieving excellent outcomes, and as such he utilises Feedback Informed Therapy to monitor his client’s progress and outcomes at the end of each session, as well as throughout the course of treatment.