ABOUT

Dr Dominika Ludvik | Clinical Psychologist

BPsych (PGDip.), MPsych (Clin.), PhD, MAPS

Dr Dominika Ludvik is a registered clinical psychologist. She has completed her PhD in Clinical Psychology at Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia. She is also a registered therapist at Melbourne institute of intensive short-term psychodynamic therapy.

Dominika’s clinical practice is compassionate, empathic and respectful. She is passionate about helping people to promote their self-understanding and to improve their mental health well-being.

Dominika is experienced in providing individual and couples-based psychological interventions to clients with mental health difficulties across a range of settings, including private practice, hospitals, and outpatient services. She has been helping clients of all ages, mostly between 18-50 years of age, and from different backgrounds.

Areas of specialisation

Dominika has worked extensively with clients suffering from anxiety, especially generalized anxiety, social anxiety, performance anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Dominika has also an extensive experience assisting clients to overcome their trauma, relationship issues, abnormal eating patterns as well as grief. She also assist clients to overcome depression, better manage stress, and eliminate drug and alcohol misuse. Part of her work includes behavioural, cognitive, and educational assessments and writing reports requested by universities and other health professionals.

  • Anxiety and depression

  • Trauma

  • Phobias

  • Relationship difficulties

  • Grief

  • Work-related stress

  • Grief and loss

  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

  • Adult ADHD

  • Eating disorders

Therapeutic Approaches

Dominika is passionate about helping clients to effectively cope with psychosocial difficulties and building their resilience in a caring and supportive therapeutic environment. She is trained in a variety of evidence-based psychotherapies and works with her clients to find the approach that best matches their individual needs and preferences.

  • Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy

  • Psychodynamic Therapy

  • Intensive Short-term Psychodynamic Therapy

  • Dialectical-Behaviour Therapy

  • Schema Therapy

  • Gottman Relationship Therapy

  • Mindfulness

Background Information

Dominika has also worked as a researcher and lecturer at Griffith University and frequently presents at Psychology conferences and workshops. Her research focuses on innovative behavioural and cognitive interventions in the treatment of anxiety disorders and in particular, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). She is also a published author in anxiety and OCD research and served as a Chair on the Gold Coast branch of Australian Psychological Society (APS).