Certified Psychedelic Assisted Therapist (Integrative Psychiatry Institute, 12 month course)
Internal Family Systems Therapist (Level 2)
Psychology Board of Australia Approved Supervisor
Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician
EMDR Therapist
Innate Somatic Intelligence Trauma Therapy Approach (ISITTA, founded in Hakomi therapy)
Dr Bernadette Bywater co-founded EvolutionMET in 2023. She also founded Centre Point Psychology in 2008, where she continues to lead and support a team of highly qualified and experienced psychologists. Centre Point Psychology has proudly developed a reputation with referrers and clients for high quality mental health treatment and strong values in client care. The practice has a number of areas of strength including the treatment of trauma, eating disorders and the mental health impact of physical health conditions. Bernadette has previously held positions in private hospital eating disorder inpatient and day patient programs, community and government settings in Australia and the UK and as a consultant psychologist to various bariatric clinics.
Dr Bywater is passionate about the entitlement of clients to receive mental health care that is innovative and evidence-based and she has dedicated herself to developing skills in a range of therapies including Eye-Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Somatically-informed therapy (ISITTA), Neuro-psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS) and mindfulness-based therapy.
In addition to her work with general adult mental health, Dr Bywater is a certified psychedelic assisted therapy provider (Integrative Psychiatry Institute) and credentialed eating disorder clinician and she enjoys supporting other therapists through clinical supervision and as a NSW Psychology Board of Australia, Board Approved Supervisor. She is dedicated to developing mental health services that are values driven and supportive of clinicians so that they can focus on using their talents and skills with clients.
Dr Bywater has a warm, caring and non-judgemental approach and believes in working collaboratively with clients so that they are actively involved in the direction of their therapy. Dr Bywater values learning from the life experience and strengths of each person she works with to individually tailor their treatment program to meet their therapeutic goals. She encourages the understanding the mental health symptoms in the context of the life experiences a person and their social and cultural context. She supports the ability of each individual to define their own recovery and to determine the pathway towards it.
Dr Bywater is committed to ongoing professional training and clinical supervision as well as personal development and reflection in order to effectively serve the clients and organisations she works with. For medicine enhanced therapy, Dr Bywater also has supervision from a number of international practitioners in the field including Clinical Psychologist Jeanine Souren, founder of the Experiential Training Institute in The Netherlands and Dr Simon Amar, Psychiatrist and clinical trial consultant.
