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 has also worked 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. Katherine has training in contemporary psychodynamic frameworks, schema therapy, family work, cognitive and behavioural therapy, and play therapy. |
Dayna Hoole Psychologist
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Dayna is a qualified Psychologist with the Psychology Board of Australia and has been working in the mental health field for the last 6 years within residential care, AOD services, forensic and community based mental health settings.
Dayna has experience working with a diverse range of clients presenting with complex mental health disorders including depression, anxiety, trauma-related disorders, adjustment disorders, self-harm, attachment and personality disorders. She also works with clients whom are experiencing wellbeing issues such as stress, transitions, separation/divorce, parenting difficulties, family relationships, behavioural issues, and anger management difficulties. Dayna works with children of all ages, adolescents, adults, families and couples. She uses an eclectic and collaborative approach when providing psychological therapy to clients to gain positive changes in their lives. Dayna is trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT), Schema Therapy, Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), Emotion-Focussed Therapies (EFT) for couples and families and Play Therapy. |
Nicole Carter Psychologist
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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. |
Luke Mill Psychologist
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Luke has a Masters degree in Educational and Developmental Psychology. This degree has provided Luke with specialised training and placement opportunities across many child and adolescent psychology settings, including assessing and treating neurodevelopmental disorders (i.e., ADHD, ASD), developmental trauma, learning difficulties, social and emotional issues).
Luke has worked at The Monash Children’s Hospital in the Autism Assessment team where he worked alongside paediatricians and other allied health professionals. Prior to this training, Luke has experience using evidence-based behavioural interventions to manage and support children on the Autism Spectrum. Luke is passionate about working with children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), both in terms of assessment and intervention/counselling. He is a strong advocate of using a collaborative approach to identify each child’s unique set of strengths and skills to help maximise their ability to reach their potential from a learning, behavioural, and social-emotional perspective. |
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Thérèse Waring Administration AssistantThérèse 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. |