Welcoming & Supportive
Highly skilled, knowledgeable and professional service.
Personalised Therapy
Creating genuine therapeutic relationships & personalised treatment plans.
PTSD & Complex Trauma
Specific expertise to help people who have experienced PTSD and trauma.
Clinical Supervision & EMDR Consultation
Supervision for social workers, EMDR therapists and mental health professionals.
Port Integrative Therapy is a clinical social work practice based in Port Macquarie.
With 15 years experience, Clinical Social Worker Krystal Hawkins helps clients explore their resilience to reach achievable goals that improve their quality of life.
An experienced mental health clinician, Krystal, works with her clients to develop personalised treatment plans using evidenced based techniques and fostering a genuine therapeutic relationship.
Therapy for adolescents, adults and emergency first responders.
Supporting people experiencing:
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Complex & Developmental Trauma
- Depression
- Anxiety
Treatment referrals and modalities
You can access therapy through a number of referral pathways:
- Victims of Crime
- Worker’s Compensation
- Employee Assistance Programs
- Medicare Mental Health Care Plan
- National Disability Insurance Scheme
Types of treatment include:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Group EMDR for recent traumatic episodes (G-TEP)
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Schema Therapy
- Psychodynamic Interpersonal Therapy (PIT)
- Narrative Therapy
- Polyvagal-Informed Therapy
- Short-Term Dynamic Interpersonal Psychotherapy
- The Conversational Model
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Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Trained
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Body based & somatic therapies
Krystal grew up on the Mid North Coast and cares about the community. She is dedicated to supporting the community health and wellbeing of individuals experiencing trauma, depression and anxiety.
With extensive graduate and post graduate study, supervision as well as comprehensive training in bottom up and top down approaches to psychotherapy, Krystal believes in the importance of finding the right support.
Through a Masters program with Sydney University, Krystal has spent several years in psychotherapy training and intensive supervision developing her skills & knowledge in psychodynamic psychotherapy.
It’s important for individuals to get the right treatment, tailored to suit specific needs by a qualified person.
Clinical Social Worker
Social Workers who have specialised in psychotherapy have undergone many years of additional training to qualify as accredited clinical therapists. This combined experience of social work and evidence based psychotherapy directly supports the needs of individuals.
Krystal Hawkins
Clinical Social Worker & EMDR Consultant
Qualifications and Memberships
- Accredited Clinical Social Worker
- Accredited Cognitive Behavioural Therapist
- Accredited EMDR Consultant & Therapist
- Bachelor of Social Work
- Graduate Diploma in Psychology
- Master of Science in Medicine (Psychotherapy) Sydney University (current)
- Medicare provider
Seeking support?
Memberships and Accreditations
Member of EMDR Association of Australia (EMDRAA)
Member of Australia and New Zealand Association of Psychotherapy (ANZAP)
Member of Australian Association for Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (AACBT)
Member of Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW)
If you are in a crisis, contact Emergency Services 000
Mental Health Access Line 1800 011 511
Lifeline 13 11 14
Suicide Callback Service 1300 659 467
Men’s Referral Service 1300 766 491
1800RESPECT 1800 737 732
Kids Helpline 1800 551 800