David Short

Mr David Short, B Psych, GradCertClinHypn, MAPS, AAPi.

David Short is passionate about working with adults of all ages, welcoming clients from diverse cultural backgrounds to join him in achieving their full potential. His focus is on providing strategies that help individuals move forward toward a more fulfilling and satisfying life. Drawing from traditional and contemporary evidence-based approaches, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Schema Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Mindfulness, he ensures that treatment is tailored to the client’s individual goals. He emphasises a strong therapeutic alliance and uses the client’s personal experience to guide the process.

David interprets clinical concepts and terminology in user-friendly language, making them easier to understand and apply to life experiences. He provides support for behavioural addictions, including addictive behaviours related to online content, food and beverages, romance, gambling, work, exercise, and other compulsions. He also works with clients experiencing mood-related disorders such as long-term or situational depression, grief and loss, prolonged exposure to high stress, and mood-related sleep issues.

David offers assistance for individuals with anxiety-related disorders, including anxiety caused by stressful situations or work roles, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), generalized anxiety disorder, panic attacks, excessive worry, and rumination, as well as anxiety-related sleep disturbances. He helps clients navigate difficult life transitions and adjustment disorders, supporting individuals facing career uncertainty, relationship instability, financial independence challenges, mid-life shifts, caregiving responsibilities, medical emergencies, chronic illnesses, relationship breakups, job loss, bereavement, or starting anew after natural disasters.

David provides relationship support for clients dealing with family of origin issues, traumatic childhood experiences, troubled sibling relationships, difficulties with parents and other family members, romantic relationships, affairs, workplace relationships, and relationship abuse. He helps individuals build self-esteem and self-confidence by addressing the inner critic, encouraging self-compassion, and fostering a more supportive and realistic perspective after failures or negative experiences.

David supports students in coping with academic pressures and promotes mental health awareness and resilience through lifestyle and cognitive approaches. He helps students understand the causes and consequences of perfectionism, procrastination, and fear of failure, providing strategies to prevent burnout, stress, anxiety, and depression. He also works extensively in men’s health, assisting men with fatherhood, family life challenges, marriage maintenance, relationship dynamics, feelings of disconnection or rejection, toxic relationships, social and emotional competency, communication strategies, and resilience routines.

David is a travel enthusiast and has visited various destinations, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Laos, Hong Kong, India, and Nepal, as well as New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii, the United States, and Canada. Originally from Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, he has called Queensland home for 25 years. His weekends are spent with family, his wife, and two sons, engaging in activities such as fishing, relaxing at the beach, and discovering new dining spots around Brisbane.