I am an AHPRA registered clinical psychologist.  

 

My working life spans 40 years of study and experience, including primary school teaching, publishing, grief and loss education, working with separated families during early stages of family breakdown, student counselling (Tertiary-based), play therapy for young children, and clinical therapy and assessment.  

 

Qualifications

 

Master of Clinical Psychology

University of Canberra

Thesis:

Stress as a Contributing Factor in Frequent Episodic Tension-Type Headache.  

 

Bachelor of Arts, Psychology (Hons 1A) 

Charles Sturt University

Thesis:

Predicting Contemplation of Cosmetic Procedures: Does Body-Image Dissatisfaction Moderate the Relationship with Perfectionism?

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Postgraduate Diploma of Human Services (Relationships Therapy)

Charles Sturt University

 

Diploma Teaching (Primary)

Riverina- Murray Institute of Higher Education

 

My initial psychotherapy training was in family systems therapy.  This gave me a good grounding in understanding family dynamics and the systems in which we interact, including the immediate family, our family of origin, and broader social and cultural systems.  I spent many years working with families who experienced grief and loss, through bereavement, family breakdown, or arising out of major life events that are difficult to come to terms with.  

 

This formative work enabled me to develop my therapy approach that as individuals, we are connected to a broader network which influences us in some way.  I also learnt that it is our losses in life that have a way of re-surfacing when we become stuck. Often it is a very early loss that we may not have yet had the chance to resolve