Therapy offers a range of benefits to improve and enhance the life of yourself, your family and your relationships. Through therapy, you will be able to express yourself freely in a confidential setting. This can help you understand and organise your thoughts and feelings and become more aware of how they influence behaviours and beliefs. Therapy is a safe place to learn how to deal with emotions and thoughts in a productive way and to learn new strategies to cope with life’s challenges.

Seeing a psychologist for the first time can be a daunting step and may provoke anxiety or nervousness for some. Melissa is experienced at making the process as easy and comfortable for you as possible.

Melissa sees children, adolescents and adults. People come to therapy for a variety of reasons, and Melissa can offer support in the following areas:

CHILDREN + ADOLESCENTS

Behavioural difficulties and problematic behaviour.

Grief and loss, trauma, depression, anxiety, stress, separation anxiety, life transitions, self-esteem concerns.

School refusal.

Self-harm and suicidality.

Family conflict and parental separation.

Educational and developmental assessments (cognitive and functional).

Learning difficulties, ADHD, difficult behaviour.

Social skills.

Autism Spectrum Disorder: therapy and assessment; NDIS access support.

Psychosexual development, protective behaviours, healthy relationships.

Gender and sexual identity adjustments.

Life transitions.

ADULTS

Depression, anxiety and stress management.

Work stress and burnout.

Postnatal depression, anxiety, birth trauma, perinatal support.

PTSD, panic attacks, sleep concerns.

Life transitions, divorce, interpersonal difficulties.

Grief and loss.

Low self-esteem, identity confusion, decision making.

Parenting support and skill development.

Self-harm and suicidality.

Communication support.

Adult ADHD, autism, obsessive compulsive disorder, disordered eating.

PERINATAL + BIRTH TRAUMA

Please see the information under the link at the top of this page.

Melissa offers a range of assessments for children, adolescents and adults in the following areas:

Child and adult ADHD
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Psychometric
Functional
NDIS access + planning support
Emotional intelligence

Melissa is a STAP-trained psychologist and offers clinical supervision for provisional psychologists completing their 4+2 and 5+1 pathways, both as primary and secondary supervisor. She also provides clinical supervision for registered psychologists and other professionals working within the mental health field.

Melissa also has extensive knowledge of the child protection systems and offers clinical supervision for child safety practitioners, school guidance officers, family support workers and family law practitioners.

Melissa also provides support to medical practitioners and staff in frontline services around burnout, compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and responding to workplace incidents and conflict.

Supervision is offered via face-to-face and telehealth consults.

Contact Melissa to discuss your individual needs.

“The only thing I know for sure about your organisation is that you’ll never have enough time, money or people to do everything you’d like to do. That means you have to make deliberate choices about what you invest in, and how and where to deploy your scarce resources to create the most value.”

Melissa has worked at Executive level in primary healthcare, disability and mental health. She also has experience supporting and coaching organisations and teams in their response to critical and traumatic incidents, workplace suicide and onsite deaths and accidents, and implementing whole-of-system approaches to improved wellbeing.

Melissa has over a decade of experience in the clinical space, providing therapeutic support, coaching and mentoring in an array of areas, including personal resilience, interpersonal conflict, leadership and emotional intelligence, burnout, vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue, navigating complex relationships, anxiety, depression, self-care, parenting support (returning to work after parental leave and juggling work and parenting responsibilities) and coaching for life transitions and retirement. Melissa also has experience in administering psychometric assessments, workplace assessments, report writing, and developing learning, performance and improvement plans.

Melissa’s past research includes implementing positive psychology practices in the workplace and in leadership, the triangulation between emotional intelligence, work stress and person-job fit/staff retention, and organisational responses to suicide and adverse events. Melissa has Master's degrees both in Clinical Leadership and Suicidology.

Melissa is a clinical consultant with Resilient Healthcare Solutions

This service will be available soon. Please get in touch with Melissa directly if you would like further information.