Evidence-based practice integrates the best available research evidence with clinical expertise, patient values and circumstances,
and the specific practice context. After in-depth case conceptualisation, treatment plans are designed using a
person-centred approach to support your unique healing journey.
Therapy Focus
Personalised sessions that nurture growth and emotional healing.
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR is an evidence-based therapy that helps people process and recover from trauma and distressing life experiences. EMDR therapy has solidified its status as a highly effective treatment, endorsed by leading authorities like the World Health Organisation (WHO), Phoenix Australia, and the Australian Psychological Society (APS). EMDR therapy can produce rapid and meaningful reductions in symptoms.
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Schema Therapy
Schema Therapy is an integrative intervention designed to treat chronic, deeply rooted mental conditions – such as personality disorders, anxiety, and long-term depression – by transforming persistent, self-defeating life patterns or “schemas”. It combines CBT, attachment theory, Gestalt, and other experiential techniques to address emotional needs unmet during childhood.
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Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)
CBT is a time-sensitive, structured, present-oriented treatment that has been found to be effective for the treatment of many different health and mental health conditions. The cognitive model describes how people’s thoughts and perceptions influence the way they feel and behave. In theory, the way individuals perceive a situation is more closely connected to their reaction than the situation itself.
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Enhanced CBT (CBT-E) for Eating Disorders
Enhanced CBT (CBT-E) is one of the most effective treatments for eating disorders. It is a “transdiagnostic” treatment for all forms of eating disorder including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID), and other similar states. It is a highly individualised treatment, developed to match the exact eating problem of the person receiving treatment.
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Solution Focused Brief Therapy
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is a short-term goal-focused evidence-based therapeutic approach, which incorporates positive psychology principles and practices, and which helps clients change by constructing solutions rather than focusing on problems. In the most basic sense, SFBT is a hope friendly, positive emotion eliciting, future-oriented vehicle for formulating, motivating, achieving, and sustaining desired behavioral change.
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https://solutionfocused.net/what-is-solution-focused-therapy/
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Psychodynamic therapy is a form of talk therapy focused on uncovering unconscious patterns and exploring the person’s inner experience, which encompasses emotions, dreams, implicit drives and beliefs and relationships, including the patient-therapist relationship. The approach is on understanding life, mind and human connection and interaction, and how past experiences shape present behaviour. It’s applicable to life in general.
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https://www.helpguide.org/mental-health/treatment/psychodynamic-therapy
About my Training
EMDR
I chose to complete my EMDR basic training (levels 1 and 2) with the EMDR Institute of Australia, a branch of the original organisation established by Dr Francine Shapiro – psychologist, researcher and the originator and developer of the Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) treatment. The institute provides training that follows Dr Shapiro’s protocol and the latest research on EMDR and it’s developments. The standard protocol is recommended due to it’s strong evidence-base, and it is recognised by organisations like the World Health Organisation and the Australian Psychological Society as a top-tier treatment for PTSD. It uses structured, eight-phase bilateral stimulation to treat traumatic memories faster than traditional therapies. Key techniques include eye movements, interweaves, resource development and implementation (RDI), future template and the flash forward protocol.
My trainer, Dr. Janette McMahon, is a clinical psychologist and EMDR accredited consultant and trainer for the EMDR Institute in Australia. After completing 10 hours of consultation with EMDRAA consultants in addition to the training, I progressed with my training by enrolling to an EMDR Masterclass on attachment trauma, which will be facilitated by Janette and Dr. Roger Solomon, one of Francine Shapiro’s original trainers, in early November 2026. I also attended the EMDRAA Conference in May 2026.
Schema Therapy
In 2017, I completed my standard Schema Therapy training with Dr Chris Lee, clinical psychologist and associate professor at University of Western Australia. By implementing Schema into my practice, I feel in love with this approach and decided to further extend my training by completing the accreditation course delivered by the International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST) in New York, USA. In 2021, I was trained by Dr Jeffrey Young himself, the father of Schema Therapy, together with Wendy Behary.
Dr Young developed Schema Therapy and opened the first Schema Therapy Institute in New York out of his work at Columbia University. Dr Young serves on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University and is also Director of both the Cognitive Therapy Centre of New York and the Schema Therapy Institute. He is a Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy, and founder of the International Society for Schema Therapy. Dr Young originally worked with Dr Aaron Beck (founder of Cognitive Therapy) as a Cognitive Therapist.
Wendy Behary is the founder and director of The Cognitive Therapy Center of New Jersey and The Schema Therapy Institutes of NJ-NYC-DC. She was trained and works with Dr Young since 1989, and she is an expert specialising in narcissism and Schema Therapy.
In addition, I attended the ISST Conference in Melbourne in 2023, and virtually in May 2026. Schema Therapy combines different methodologies to treat complex trauma presentations, such as complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD), PTSD, personality disorders, and eating disorders. Schema strategies are highly effective in modifying deep-seeded “schemas” (maladaptive life patterns) and “modes” (current emotional states). Key techniques include imagery rescripting of traumatic memories, chair work, modes dialogue, inner parts, limited reparenting, empathetic confrontation, and behavioural pattern-breaking.
CBT-E
Enhanced CBT is considered to be a gold standard, front line treatment for adults presenting with eating disorders. It is a manualised and structured intervention that is simultaneously highly personalised and targets the factors that maintain a person’s eating disorder. The CBT-E protocol guides the implementation of each of the four stages of CBT-E and the application of these to the full range of eating disorders seen in clinical practice. In 2024, I was trained in CBT-E intervention by Sarah McMahon, the Director of BodyMatters Australasia who has extensive experience in eating disorders recovery.
The efficacy of CBT-E is supported by the fact that It is one of the modal training recognised by the Australian Eating Disorder Credentialing program and also one of the therapies that can be delivered for Medicare subsidised treatment under the Eating Disorder Treatment Plan.
PsyBA / AHPRA Board-approved Supervisor Training
I completed my board-approved supervisor training back in 2018, with the Australian Psychological Society Institute. It is a requirement from the registration board that all approved supervisors must complete a Supervisor Masterclass level training every 5 years in order to maintain the registration as a clinical supervisor. I have acted as the primary supervisor for more than a dozen provisionally registered psychologists undertaking their placement through the following pathways: 4+2 (now extinct), 5+1, and the Transitional Program. They are now all established fully registered psychologists running their own practices.
I also provide clinical supervision for registered psychologists and counsellors working with complex trauma presentations.