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Over the last 17 years I’ve worked as a psychologist in primary and secondary schools, hospitals, non-profit community agencies and private practice. This has provided me with a wealth of knowledge, experience and skill in providing both assessment and therapeutic counselling to children, adolescents, adults and families.
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People seek counselling for varied reasons. It is important to me to understand what your needs are and to work collaboratively with you throughout the therapeutic process to achieve positive progress and the changes you desire. Helping you to feel empowered to better understand yourself, your relationships and your choices in the context of your personal experience and circumstance is my goal.
Across my career, I’ve worked with people across the lifespan, who are neurodiverse, from a variety of different cultural backgrounds, gender identities and sexual orientations. I’ve worked with people seeking short-term solution-focused support regarding a specific issue. Alternatively, I’ve worked with people wanting more longer-term, intensive, and specialised psychological evidence-based treatment designed to help them get immediate and ongoing symptom relief, and heal. Regardless of your situation or circumstance, you will receive a professional service from me that is kind, respectful and collaborative.
I specialise in working with children and adolescents, along with their parents and carers, across a range of social, emotional, developmental and behavioural difficulties. I’ve chosen this area to focus my career because I’m passionate about building trusted and safe therapeutic relationships with children and teenagers, and I enjoy engaging them in a therapeutic process. I assist young people to express themselves, be it through helping them find the right words to tell their stories or via more creative means such as through writing, play, movement or artwork. Helping them to communicate their experiences and needs to parents/carers and other key support people in their lives (if appropriate), is also an important and valued aspect of my role, as is directly working with parents/carers. Unfortunately, no child arrives with an individualised “How to” manual! (😊). Sometimes, having someone else who is objective, not family or a friend, and who isn’t known to the young person in any other context, can be an invaluable and life-changing resource for parents and carers. This is because we can provide you with a professional assessment, non-judgemental feedback, and strategies or guidance about different ways you can emotionally attune and respond to challenging behaviours that facilitate learning, and maintain an open and positive relationship with your child or teenager.
My work is guided by evidenced-based approaches and principles from child development theories, family systems theory, attachment theory, play therapy, ACT - acceptance and commitment therapy, CBT – cognitive behaviour therapy, mindfulness and interpersonal process therapy. I have a specific interest in applied neurobiology, and teaching clients about how their brain works to influence their perceptions and experience of the world around them.
I am excited to be part of the H&H team and looking forward to starting soon. Outside of work, I enjoy watching tv shows and movies, walking and playing with my five-year old schnoodle Chewie (yes, he is brown and hairy like a wookie!) and spending time with friends and family. I love taking photographs and eating food!
Professional Highlights and Memberships:
Areas of Interest:
Across my career, I’ve worked with people across the lifespan, who are neurodiverse, from a variety of different cultural backgrounds, gender identities and sexual orientations. I’ve worked with people seeking short-term solution-focused support regarding a specific issue. Alternatively, I’ve worked with people wanting more longer-term, intensive, and specialised psychological evidence-based treatment designed to help them get immediate and ongoing symptom relief, and heal. Regardless of your situation or circumstance, you will receive a professional service from me that is kind, respectful and collaborative.
I specialise in working with children and adolescents, along with their parents and carers, across a range of social, emotional, developmental and behavioural difficulties. I’ve chosen this area to focus my career because I’m passionate about building trusted and safe therapeutic relationships with children and teenagers, and I enjoy engaging them in a therapeutic process. I assist young people to express themselves, be it through helping them find the right words to tell their stories or via more creative means such as through writing, play, movement or artwork. Helping them to communicate their experiences and needs to parents/carers and other key support people in their lives (if appropriate), is also an important and valued aspect of my role, as is directly working with parents/carers. Unfortunately, no child arrives with an individualised “How to” manual! (😊). Sometimes, having someone else who is objective, not family or a friend, and who isn’t known to the young person in any other context, can be an invaluable and life-changing resource for parents and carers. This is because we can provide you with a professional assessment, non-judgemental feedback, and strategies or guidance about different ways you can emotionally attune and respond to challenging behaviours that facilitate learning, and maintain an open and positive relationship with your child or teenager.
My work is guided by evidenced-based approaches and principles from child development theories, family systems theory, attachment theory, play therapy, ACT - acceptance and commitment therapy, CBT – cognitive behaviour therapy, mindfulness and interpersonal process therapy. I have a specific interest in applied neurobiology, and teaching clients about how their brain works to influence their perceptions and experience of the world around them.
I am excited to be part of the H&H team and looking forward to starting soon. Outside of work, I enjoy watching tv shows and movies, walking and playing with my five-year old schnoodle Chewie (yes, he is brown and hairy like a wookie!) and spending time with friends and family. I love taking photographs and eating food!
Professional Highlights and Memberships:
- Master of Psychology (Child and Family Psychology)
- Post-graduate Diploma of Psychology
- Bachelor of Psychology
- Full registration as a psychologist with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) Psychology Board of Australia
- Membership of the Australian Association of Psychologists Inc (AAPi)
- Trained and certified “Tuning Into Kids” parent group facilitator
Areas of Interest:
- ADHD
- Autism
- Depression and mood disorders
- Anxiety, phobias and obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Sexuality & gender identity
- Family dynamics / parent-teen communication
- Perfectionism
- Trauma
- Grief and Loss
- Interpersonal and relationship difficulties
