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Services and FAQs

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Focus and Services

I use evidence-based treatments to support your needs responsively, working with you, your preferences, and your experience to improve your well-being and relationships with others.

I am highly experienced in providing behavioural parent interventions, to support parents of children with emotional and behavioural difficulties. I work exclusively with parents to support them managing their children’s difficulties, such as:

  • Tantrums, non-compliance, and aggressive behaviours

  • Trouble controlling behaviours or acting impulsively

  • Trouble paying attention to tasks, sitting still at the table, or seeing chores through to the end

  • Conflict between siblings

  • Worries and fears about a range of things, including separating from parents, and social situations

  • Trouble sleeping independently through the night

  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Autism Spectrum Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Conduct Disorder, and a range of Anxiety disorders

My work with adults spans a range of areas including, but not limited to:

  • Worries or fears about a range of areas including performance, perfectionism, social situations, health concerns or general overall worries

  • Low mood, lethargy, and depression

  • Disordered eating or body image concerns

  • Self-esteem concerns

  • Difficulties paying and sustaining attention

  • Procrastination

  • Emotional dysregulation

  • General wellbeing

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As I am based in Berlin, I use the time difference to offer sessions when most other psychologists are unable to do so. Private telehealth psychology services after usual Australian business hours are offered for:

  • One-on-one sessions, for parents or individual adults – 50 minutes per session

Monday - Thursday, 6pm - 11pm (AEDT)
Weekly or fortnightly basis

  • Small groups for parents (5-6 participants) - 60 minutes per session

    Starting 2026
    Weekly drop-in sessions will be available

Availability and appointment times will be discussed on an individual basis.

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What do I offer?

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  • I offer private psychology services, via telehealth only. I focus on providing services to parents and to individual adults.

  • Often for children (ages 2-12), the primary relationships they have are within their family system - i.e. their parents and siblings. When these children struggle with anxiety, tantrums, difficulties sleeping, school refusal, or a whole range of concerns, it impacts the family system most directly.

    The good news is that the relationship between parents and children can be super powerful in addressing these concerns. Research shows that for the 2-12 age group, the most effective therapy is working ‘top-down’ with parents directly, rather than working with the child (Hawes & Allen, 2016; Australian ADHD Guideline Development Group 2022; Mingebach, Kamp-Becker, Christiansen, Weber 2018)

    So therapy for parents is about harnessing this special parent-child relationship to support parents to help their children grow and develop skills and tools to manage emotional and behavioural difficulties.

  • As above, research suggests that for children 2-12 years old, the most effective therapy for a range of difficulties will be behavioural parent training. That means supporting parents to develop new skills to manage and support emotional and behavioural concerns of their children.

    I work exclusively with parents because I utilise evidence-based treatments, and this is what the evidence suggests is most effective. If I feel your family would be better supported by more direct work with your child, we can discuss additional options for support together.

  • Before starting therapy with me, we will need to schedule a brief 15-minute phone call to discuss why you want to undertake therapy. The purpose of this call is to make sure I am the most appropriate psychologist to support you and (if applicable) your family.

    You can book this call (free of charge) through the link to Halaxy at the bottom of the page, or through the contact page.

  • At the beginning, therapy will be about trying to get a clear picture of what is going on for you and, if applicable, your child and family. This will involve 1-2 sessions of ‘assessment’, or a process of asking questions to build up this picture. At the end of this process we will collaborate on the goals for therapy we will work towards together.

    Therapy will then consist of weekly or fortnightly sessions (50 minutes) where we discuss approaches to difficulties and build skills to support your goals. Each session will build on the last, and respond to your feedback.

  • I hope to represent my practice as something larger than myself, because I believe that therapeutic work is co-created between people, rather than held as an ‘expert’ knowledge by me. I also wanted to be represented by something Australian, a link to a home I am away from, but will return to.

    The flame tree (Brachychiton acerifolius) is a native icon. Vibrant, unique, warm. My practice draws on this, aiming to provide a bright spot in what might otherwise be a difficult time. I hope to bring this to you with my practice.

FAQs

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