Katherine Hill Clinical Psychologist
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As an experienced child and family clinical psychologist, Katherine works effectively with children of all ages, teenagers and parents, enabling individuals and families to achieve greater wellbeing. She has worked in primary, secondary and tertiary education settings, providing a range of assessments, interventions and counselling.
Katherine works effectively with children who experienced severe trauma and disrupted attachments, such as those who have been involved in the Child Protection and Youth Justice systems, providing skilled assessment and therapeutic interventions. She provides case consultations to care teams and foster care services. Katherine has training in contemporary psychodynamic frameworks, schema therapy, family work, cognitive and behavioural therapy, and play therapy. Katherine has an strong interest in Autism Spectrum Disorder and works with high functioning kids, young people and adults who are on the spectrum or needing assessment. Katherine is not taking new therapy referrals. |
Nicole Carter Psychologist (Clinical Registrar)
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Nicole is a registered Psychologist with the Psychology Board of Australia. She has completed her Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and has training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and play therapy. Prior to this training, Nicole worked in policy development and research for children’s mental health and wellbeing, and with families affected by mental illness as a caseworker with Carers NSW.
Nicole has an interest in working with children of all ages, adolescents, and parents in the areas of anxiety and mood disturbances, behavioural difficulties, parenting concerns, trauma, adjustment, stress, and relationships. Nicole uses a client-centered, collaborative approach in supporting individuals and families to create positive changes in their lives and achieve their goals. Nicole's waiting list is currently full. |
Mary Ta Psychologist (Educational and Developmental Registrar)
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Mary is an early career psychologist and Educational and Developmental registrar who is dedicated to providing individualised and comprehensive psychological care to children, teens, and adults in an ethical, engaging, and collaborative manner. She has worked in education, private, and community health sectors to support clients manage issues involving anxiety, depression, challenging behaviours, emotion regulation, social difficulties, and trauma resulting from family violence. Mary draws from the principles of cognitive behavioural therapy, client-centred therapy, and play therapy to guide her therapeutic practice.
Mary strives to make the therapeutic process smooth for her clients by being warm and transparent. She believes that it is important for clients to feel heard and validated; accordingly, she aims to create a safe and welcoming space where clients can freely discuss and reflect on their experiences without feeling judged or shamed. Mary also works with clients to help them develop skills and strategies in order to foster resilience and manage their difficulties. Sessions are generally tailored to complement clients’ strengths, resources, personality, and feedback. Mary has appointments coming up for teens (15 years plus) to adults with mental heath concerns. |
Varda Khan Psychologist
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Varda is an early career psychologist. She has completed her master’s degree in educational and developmental psychology. She has previously worked in education and community health sectors to support clients and their families with a range of concerns and challenges involving mood concerns, anxiety, emotion regulation, grief and bereavement, social difficulties and self-management. Varda draws from the principles of cognitive behavioural therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, mindfulness, play therapy and client-centred approach to guide her therapeutic practice.
Varda has a strong interest in working with children, adolescents, and their families within a systems framework that looks at the whole picture. Varda has a special interest in working with clients with neurodiverse needs along with the assessment of developmental and educational difficulties. Varda uses a collaborative approach and strives to provide a warm, welcoming and safe space to clients and their families to support and create positive changes in their lives. Varda's waiting list is currently full. |
David Shannon Youth Worker (Dip Community Services - Youth Work)
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My name is David, I have been working in the youth work/welfare sector for the past 21 years. I have worked in residential care, outreach support, service coordination and more recently managing programs and staff working with youth at risk. I have had the pleasure of working alongside many kids, young people and their families in attending to daily tasks, engaging in the community and recreational activities, as well as addressing barriers to accessing services, education and creating positive outcomes.
I enjoying working collaboratively with other services (such as OT, Speech, Psych) in supporting kids, young people and their families in practicing new skills and gaining confidence with home routines, engaging with the community, social skills, daily living skills, and leisure activities. I am a keen artist, working in the mediums of watercolour and acrylics painting landscapes. I enjoy playing the occasional game of golf, gardening and camping. I have two cats and a dog. In addition to my professional experiences working with kids and young people with various support needs, I have much personal experience with autism as many people in my family are on the spectrum. |
Kate Mathrick Youth Support Worker
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I am currently studying psychology in Footscray. As well, I have nearly a decade of experience working with a range of different families and children as a baby sitter and class activity assistant at a primary school. I spent my childhood camping as a Sea Scout but now enjoy playing both tabletop and video games with my friends as well as pursuing my artist hobbies.
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Charlene Dimitrokopoulos Youth Support Worker
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I am currently studying a Diploma in Community Services as I have a passion for empowering Youth and families. My hobbies include drawing and poetry! Recently I have picked up the paint brush and gave painting a go! Still not the best painter but it’s is fun to try new things!
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Thérèse Waring Administration Assistant
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Thérèse is our clinic's virtual administration assistant. She assists with appointment bookings, invoices and Medicare rebates, arranging new intake phone calls and a range of other administrative tasks to keep us organised and focussed on our clinical work.
Thérèse is an Australian who is based in France and she provides her serivces to us via the magic of the internet. Having an overseas virtual assistant means that as our work day is finishing Thérèse's work is just starting. Thérèse processes our paperwork from the day overnight so that we are ready to start the next day with the paperwork finalised. Our admin office hours are 4-6pm Australian time. |