Peter Hayton
Clinical Program Consultant & Brisbane Psychologist
Peter Hayton has been a practising psychologist for over 25 years, working extensively in health and leadership positions across a number of business and organistations. Including clinical businesses, church, charity, school, and para church organisations.
His personal experience, unassuming and non-judgemental nature places him in a strong position to provide effective treatments to patients from a variety of sexual identity, cultural, and religious backgrounds.
Phone Peter Hayton
The Banyans, Bowen Hills
Heart in Mind, Grange
Appointments are available at The Banyan’s Medical & Specialist clinic or Heart in Mind clinic on the above numbers.
Available Hours
Mon – Thur: 8:00am – 5:00pm
Consultations at
The Banyan’s Medical & Specialist Clinic
6/16 Thompson Street, Bowen Hills QLD
Heart in Mind 6/3 Days Road, Grange QLD
Brisbane Psychologist
Peter has held the position of Clinical Director and Senior Psychologist in both private practice and inpatient clinic settings. In these roles, he has also pioneered a variety of innovative care and support initiatives across education, social enterprise, and corporate sectors.
Along with his experience in counselling and rehabilitation services, Peter has extensive experience in education, training, and staff development. He is active in providing supervision for a variety of mental health workers, psychologists, ministers, priests, clergy, and lay workers.
Working with senior business leaders, owners, and public figures has been a big part of Peter’s experience from the past 10 years.
In his early life Peter trained and worked as a pastor, as well as in para church organisations.
Peter is a registered psychologist with the Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency (AHPRA) and a member of the Australian Association of Psychologists Inc.
Peter often states that he learns so much from the patients he has the privilege to work with. He finds it a privilege to have found his “calling” to mental health work.
While working as a psychologist for over 25 years Peter has many areas of general psychological therapy he is experienced in, currently he specialises in the following focus areas:
Senior Business Leaders and Public Figures
Peter’s experience working in and founding The Banyans treatment centre provided him with the sensitivity and insight in helping a variety of business owners, senior leaders, public figures and sports personalities. He brings a sensitive approach and is well connected to a range of health professionals and bespoke service providers to enhance well rounded care and growth.
Addiction, Dependency, Recovery
Peter coordinated and initiated Australia’s premier residential treatment program with The Banyans in S.E. Qld. He continues to provide treatment to those needing support and has many success stories of patients overcoming different dependency concerns through his therapies. In managing the extensive team of psychologists, doctors, and other health professionals Peter has developed valuable insight into high performance health teams.
Chronic Disease
Peter’s lengthy experience living in a family managing type 1 diabetes has given him the insight, language, and understanding to assist individuals and families manage chronic disease. This includes conditions like diabetes, cancer, chronic fatigue, etc, all of which are often connected to moderate anxiety, stress, burnout and depression.
Trauma Recovery
Along with a number of other trauma focused trauma modalities, Peter has been trained to Masters level in the Brainspotting therapy technique. This effective and innovative therapeutic methodology assists with the processing of psychological and emotional concerns from traumas and a variety of life issues and concerns.
Sports and Performance
Peter is not a sports psychologist, however he works with athletes, competing at the Olympic and elite levels, Peter brings fresh and complementary therapy to other team and sport psychologists. Various Brainspotting modalities are part of his approach, a benefit to athletes, business professionals, etc. He has extensive experience in supporting business professionals and management team members in their occupational endeavours.
Spirituality
Along with providing supervision for many different religious professionals, Peter has a lengthy history in providing therapy for Christians and other church professionals. His focus areas have included identity, gender and sexuality, his experience provides valuable support to LGBTIQ+ peoples, as well as First Nations and non western cultural background peoples.
Recent Presentations
- White Lady Funerals, Brisbane
Staff training day. Moving past stuck in coping with stress and burnout. - Stuartholme School and Parkland Cristian College, Brisbane
Year 12 preparations for the year and life ahead, stress cycles. - Workplace Mental Health Symposium, Gold Coast
Trauma and vicarious trauma for care workers, processes of self care. - Genesis Christian College, Brisbane
Managing stress and professional burnout in a pandemic world. - Aust. & N.Z. Addictions Conference, Gold Coast
Premium approaches to medical and dependency treatments.
Hospital to home: striving for excellence at every stage of the rehab journey. - Australian & New Zealand Addictions Conference, Gold Coast
Professional Self-Care in the Recovery and Addiction Landscape. - Australian Psychological Society CAPIG Conference, Noosa
Session 1 Treating Addictions
Session 2 Integrated Treatment Frameworks - ACC State Leaders Network, Gold Coast
Building resilience – Burnout, long term productivity and fruitfulness. - Eating Disorders and Obesity Conference, Tweed Heads
Multidisciplinary approaches to eating disorder recovery, case study. - QUT Mental Health Week, Gardens Point QUT
Dependency Health, the nature and nurture of positive health.
Phone Peter Hayton
07 3155 3848 – Bowen Hills
07 3856 4488 – Grange
Appointments are available at The Banyan’s Medical & Specialist Clinic and Heart in Mind on the above numbers.
Consultations held at
The Banyan’s Medical & Specialist Clinic
6/16 Thompson Street, Bowen Hills QLD
Heart in Mind 6/3 Days Road, Grange QLD
Video based telehealth can be arranged through the clinic locations
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