Dr Ashlen San Letho focuses on building a warm and secure relationship with each of her clients in order to support them in achieving therapeutic change. She is dedicated to being a stable base from which her clients are empowered to apply their strengths to the challenges in their lives, find meaning and direction, and be their most effective.

Ashlen works with a range of presentations including depression, self-esteem issues, ADHD, grief and loss, stress, adjustment and life transition difficulties, and issues with identity. Her special areas of interest are in the treatment of complex trauma and relational attachment difficulties, the anxiety disorders, and the obsessive and compulsive disorders.

Skilled in a range of approaches including cognitive behavioural therapy, dialectical behaviour therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy and schema therapy, Ashlen is able to tailor treatment to the specific needs of each person. She is particularly interested in working from a psychodynamic and attachment-based perspective in order to help her clients understand and modify unhelpful relational patterns.

Ashlen holds a combined Doctor of Clinical Psychology and Master of Science degree from the University of Sydney, and a Bachelor of Science with Honours in Psychology from Macquarie University. She has published research on anxiety and insomnia, including research on the use of imagery in the treatment of social anxiety disorder, in international journals.

Ashlen sees adults and older adolescents at NorthPsych, and is available for clinical supervision of registered and clinical psychologists. 

Registrations:

Registration to provide clinical psychology services with Medicare.
Full registration and clinical endorsement with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (PSY0001686206)

Publications:

Ng, A., Abbott, M., & Hunt, C. (2014). The effect of self-imagery on symptoms and processes in social anxiety: A systematic review. Clinical Psychology Review, 34(8), 620-633.

Ng, A. S. & Abbott, M. J. (2014). The impact of self-imagery on affective, cognitive, and attentional processes in Social Phobia: A comprehensive literature review of the theoretical and empirical literature. Behaviour Change, 31(3), 159-174.

Ng, A. S., Abbott, M. J. The effect of self-imagery on symptoms and processes in Social Anxiety Disorder, Cognitive Therapy & Research (in press).

Ng, A., Dodd, H., Gamble, A., & Hudson, J. (2012). The relationship between parent and child dysfunctional beliefs about sleep and child sleep. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 22(6), 827-835.

Dr Ashlen San Letho’s bookings are closed to new clients until further notice. Ashlen is available for appointments with existing clients on Thursdays via telehealth.