ABOUT THE PRESENTER

 

NATASHA LAKAEV

 

(BAppSc, PostGradDipPsych,MPsych,MAPS)

Clinical Psychologist

Member of APS College of Clinical Psychologists

Child, Adolescent, Adult, Couple & Family Therapist

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Natasha Lakaev is a Clinical Psychologist. Natasha is a full member of the Australian Psychological Society and the APS College of Clinical Psychologists. She is an approved government ATAPS  contractor, is on the APS Autism Spectrum Disorder provider register and is a Medicare approved Veteran Affairs clinician. Natasha is interested in Personality Disorders and was trained in DBT by the Linehan team in the USA.

 

Natasha provides Psychology services for children, adolescents, adults, and older adults, as well as couple, family, group, and court-ordered therapy.  

 

Natasha has significant experience with Personality Disorders, Anxiety, Depression and Stress (daily, long term and traumatic). She has worked within an inpatient psychiatric hospital setting, a community outpatient mental health clinic, a public hospital system, and a private clinical environment. Natasha is also experienced with Complex Mental Health needs and Personality  Disordered individuals. Natasha has extensive experience working with DOCS children and their carers, especially with Conduct Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Developmental (Complex) PTSD, Childhood Anxiety and Depression. Natasha has also worked with schools regarding undiagnosed Personality Disordered parents and the child’s resultant behaviour concerns.

 

Natasha has independently developed and validated an Academic Stress Response Scale-2 (LASRS-2), accepted worldwide as one of the top five scales to assess academic stress.

 

Natasha has experienced many years of significant vilification in social media, print newspapers and false complaints to various organisations. She also experienced ongoing workplace bullying and pressure to leave her employment due to the vilification in social media and newspapers. This arose from persons that were not patients/clients of Natasha. However, they spent many years vilifying her through all possible avenues. This group included dishonest reporting by specific journalists and falsely established organisations designed to gain credibility for their various causes. Natasha achieved apologies and retractions from those that vilified her.

 

As a result of her experience with long-term vilification, Natasha has a unique understanding of the approaches necessary to take under Civil and Administrative Law and what is appropriate action within the internet to protect one’s professional status within universities, private clinics, the public health system and about registration within national accrediting bodies and AHPRA. She also has a deep and personal understanding of the tools necessary to manage the stress of being vilified and coping with the impact of this on all aspects of one’s personal, family, professional and academic life.

 

Natasha now uses these skills and experiences to help others who have been vilified, to aid them in countering the experience by obtaining vindication so they can maintain or develop a quality of life on the other side of these events.

 

Natasha is an experienced, innovative and entertaining public speaker who has a unique ability to present information in a light-hearted manner regarding life experiences that can ultimately be a dark period of one’s life.