About Lian
Essendon North | Moonee Ponds | Telehealth
How I help you
I am a psychologist in private practice in Melbourne's inner north-west. My work is to support people to notice themselves again, understand what is going on underneath, and find their way to a more solid sense of who they are and what they want.
Registered psychologist
Lian Vandenberg is a registered psychologist with the Psychology Board of Australia (AHPRA registration PSY0001121572).
Qualifications
Lian holds a M(Couns.), Grad. Dip. Ed. Psych. and B.A (Psych.).
Experience
More than 25 years' experience as a psychologist.
Medicare-registered provider
A Medicare-registered provider, so eligible clients with a referral and a Mental Health Treatment Plan can claim a rebate.
ANZAED Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician (CEDC-MH)
Lian is an ANZAED Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician (CEDC-MH) — recognised by the Australia & New Zealand Academy for Eating Disorders for the specialised training and supervised experience required to provide safe, evidence-based eating-disorder care. She is listed on ANZAED's connect·ed directory of Professionals Credentialed in Eating Disorders.
Board-Approved Supervisor
A Board-Approved Supervisor with the Psychology Board of Australia, supporting provisional psychologists and colleagues completing supervised practice.
Member, Australian Psychological Society (MAPS)
A Member of the Australian Psychological Society (MAPS), the national professional association for psychologists in Australia.
Member, Australian Association of Psychologists Inc (MAAPi)
A Member of the Australian Association of Psychologists Inc (AAPi).
Member, Australia & New Zealand Academy for Eating Disorders
A Member of the Australia & New Zealand Academy for Eating Disorders.
Registration & Credentials
A kinder Connection with yourself.
Connection, Clarity, Choice
Connection — everything starts here.
A steady, trustworthy relationship is what makes it possible to turn towards the parts of yourself that are harder to look at. Connection with me becomes, over time, a kinder connection with yourself.
Clarity — from that safer ground, we build understanding.
We build understanding: of your patterns, your beliefs, the ways of coping you learned a long time ago that may still be running now. Clarity is not the destination. It is the thing that gives you back your options.
Choice — with clarity comes agency, the room to choose.
Sometimes that is an internal change, a shift in how you see yourself or relate to someone. Sometimes it is an external one, changing something about your circumstances. Both are legitimate. Some things are yours to change on the inside, and some are worth changing on the outside.
Clarity gives you back options
Much of the work is simply slowing things down, so what matters has room to become clear.
Choice the room to choose
Your whole self
I sometimes describe the inner life of a person as a kind of core team: your thinking self, your feeling self, your physical self, and a quieter, more reflective self. You are the team leader. In a busy life the thinking self often takes over and runs the show, and the others get crowded out. A lot of the work is simply noticing which part has been doing too much, and which part needs some attention.
Working in the moment
One thing I return to with nearly everyone is a small, practical skill: pausing, checking in with yourself about what is happening right now, and finding the next step that moves you towards a little more ease, even when the situation itself is not resolved. It is a way of influencing a process rather than trying to control an outcome.
Where it leads
Over time, the work tends to move in one direction: a better relationship with yourself, then with the people who matter to you, then with the wider world. Steady, grounded, and yours.