Clinical Background

I’m a Clinical Psychologist and Board-Approved Supervisor with over 20 years’ experience, specialising in women’s mental health across hormonally sensitive periods - from menstrual-related mood disorders to perimenopausal depression. I’ve had the privilege of working with women aged 18 to 80 who have experienced anxiety, depression, eating disorders, trauma, and OCD.

Therapeutic Approach & Shifting Goals

In my therapeutic work, I use evidence-based approaches including ACT, CBT, EMDR, and Schema Therapy. I blend clinical skill with warmth, humour, and the occasional irreverent insight.

For years, my focus was on helping women develop stronger mental health one person at a time. With 50 on the horizon, that focus has evolved. Now, I want to empower clinicians to provide informed, excellent care to midlife women; and to guide workplaces in understanding perimenopause and menopause so they can genuinely support their staff.

By training others, I can help far more women than I ever could in a single therapy room.

Research & Academic Work

My interest in women’s reproductive mental health began more than two decades ago. It started with my honours research on body image in pregnancy, continued through my doctoral work on mood and anxiety in the context of gynaecological cancers, and evolved into a focus on hormonal transitions across the lifespan.

I’ve published in these areas, lectured at Monash and Victoria University, and trained GPs and psychologists nationally to recognise and respond to hormone-related mood disorders.

Leadership & Practice Ownership

From 2005 to 2025, I built and led a thriving psychology practice of ten clinicians. In 2025, I sold the practice to a wonderful couple who bring energy, expertise, and time to nurture that practice with the same integrity and heart.

That transition gave me the space to focus on what had become my passion: equipping clinicians to understand women’s mental health more skilfully and training workplaces to better support midlife women. This passion grew from years of witnessing too many women receive inadequate or misinformed care - and from the conviction that improving clinician understanding creates greater impact than treating one woman at a time.

Current Work & Future Directions

These days, my focus is on training and supervising clinicians, and working with workplaces. I have also recently completed a Certificate in Somatic Sex Coaching, so that I can integrate knowledge about pleasure and embodiment in ageing bodies into my training. All Australian trained psychologists would know that training about sexual pleasure and wellbeing is sorely missing from our many years at university!

I still see a small caseload of therapy clients at my much-cherished old practice, though I’m not taking on anyone new. If you’re seeking psychology sessions, the clinical psychologists and registrars I supervise at Coburg Clinical Psychology are truly excellent, please contact the clinic directly to book.

From early 2026, I will begin accepting somatic sexology clients through Bosca Health, operating as a distinct practice from my clinical work. Both supervision and somatic sexology appointments can be made directly through the booking link above.