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Kelly is a Senior Counselling Psychologist, which is a speciality within psychology that recognises the importance of the therapeutic relationship along with the use of evidence based therapeutic treatments to facilitate change. She has spent the last 10 years working across Community Health and Private Practice settings. She sees adults with a variety of client presentations including:
Hi, I’m Kelly!
I provide a safe and non-judgemental space for my clients to explore and gain clarity about what is driving their emotional and behavioural patterns. My aim is to help my clients gain a better sense their internal world, improve their understanding of their emotional experiences, and help them learn how to regulate and respond to them more effectively.
I have a strong interest in complex trauma and attachment issues and make sense of trauma symptoms within the context of family and community influences. I use evidence-based and trauma-informed treatments to help my clients process difficult and traumatic memories that may be underpinning their emotions in the here and now. Throughout this process, we will work on decreasing and managing levels of distress, allowing access to adaptive information and evoking positive emotional, physical, and cognitive changes.
I am also passionate about therapeutic work which helps people to strengthen their self-compassion and their overall connection to their sense of self. This often involves working with internal parts that may be impacting self-worth such as negative self-talk and/or self-criticism. I believe that working on and learning to find new and fresh perspectives within our relationship to ourselves can facilitate powerful change and growth.
I am a neurodivergent affirming and informed practitioner and recognise neurodivergence as a naturally occurring variance in the human population. I help my clients work through the impacts of any direct or indirect negative messages that they may have received in their lifespan and to embrace and explore both their strengths and the challenges that can arise with being neurodivergent living in a world often built for neurotypical brains.
Outside of work, I love being social and spending time with my family and friends.
Kelly’s approach is warm, client centred, and trauma informed. She works collaboratively with her clients by tailoring therapy to their presenting concerns. Kelly uses range of evidence based therapies which include:
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We would like to acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which the practice is located. We pay our respects to their Elders, past and present, and the Aboriginal Elders of other communities who may be here today.
