Your Local, Caring Lilydale Psychologist
Psychology is the scientific study of the human mind and behaviour. Psychological counselling or ‘psychotherapy’ draws from evidence-based treatments that assist you to explore difficulties in emotions, behaviours or relationships that you may be experiencing and to support healing and change.
Treatment approach:
- Tailored to individual client need
- Compassion Focused Therapy
- Interpersonal Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Mindfulness and meditation training
- Brief, solution-focused
- Animal Assisted Therapy
About Kat
Kat is a Registered Psychologist, practising in psychotherapy since 2006. Her style is authentic, warm and straightforward and she places great importance on making sure her clients feel heard and understood. Therapy is a very personal process, so Kat will work collaboratively with you to make the choices and changes that are right for you.
Mindfulness practices can be powerful promoters of healing and change, and Kat has a personal and professional interest in fostering mindful awareness. She also values the health and mood benefits of being in nature. A keen gardener and bush-walker herself, she loves to work with her clients outside – you might prefer walk-and-talk therapy, or to find somewhere quiet in nature to sit and chat.
Kat is also a mum to three primary-school aged children, which has given her lived experience of the challenges of pregnancy, and the joy and chaos of parenting! On this journey, she developed an interest in gentle parenting practices (from infancy onward) that are grounded in the latest research on early brain development.
Anxiety & Depression
Grief & Loss
Peri-Natal
Stress Management
Kat’s particular areas of interest to provide support and guidance include:
ADULTS – 18+
- Anxiety (general anxiety, panic attacks, phobias, social anxiety)
- Peri-natal and post-natal anxiety, depression and adjustment
- Infertility and miscarriage
- Parenting difficulties / stress
- Major life changes
- Grief and loss
- Stress, burn out or feeling overwhelmed
- Career and/or life dissatisfaction
- Relationship difficulties
- Issues around sexual and gender identity
- Low self-esteem and confidence
CHILDREN & TEENS – 6-17
- Anxiety
- Transitions and adjustment (parent separation, changing schools)
- Confidence and self-esteem concerns
Animal Assisted Therapy
In conjunction with traditional psychotherapy, Kat offers Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT) with the help of her beautiful German Shepherd, Bear. ‘AAT’ can give you the opportunity to explore personal challenges in an experiential (hands-on) way.
Bear has had excellent training and accreditation as a Therapy Dog and is a friendly, cuddly and calming presence in the treatment room. You can also use him actively in therapy for AAT exercises, or take him for a walk around Lilydale Lake!
