Cathy O’Brien, Practice Principal, is a Psychologist and Family Therapist. She specialises in working with young people, as well as adults, and can see individuals, and families. She is a Board Approved Supervising Psychologist, and also supervises clinicians individually and as teams from a Family Therapy perspective. She has extensive experience in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Teams (CAMHS), and supervises many CAMHS and NGO teams. In her private practice, she draws on Systemic (Family) Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Dialectic Behaviour Therapy, and Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing Therapy. Above all, she aims to work collaboratively, flexibly and with good humour. Consultations: Mondays, Tuesday, Thursdays, and some Fridays, with some after hours appointments. Rebates: Medicare, Private Health.

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Contact: P: (02) 4739 6464

Ann Morris is an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker (AASW accredited) with a wealth of experience in Community Health and in Private Practice. She is passionate in her work with people who have suffered all types of trauma - sexual, physical, & emotional abuse in childhood & in adulthood, and with concerns related to sexuality, sexual functioning, sexual orientation & gender identity. She sees people for anxiety, depression, acute and chronic illness, ageing, grief & loss. She provides Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDRAA member), and is skilled in Narrative Therapy, ACT, Mindfulness practices, hypnotherapy & CBT. Ann provides clinical supervision. Consultations: Thursdays.

Rebates: Medicare, PTS.

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Contact: P: (02) 4739 6464    M:  0419 279 983

Christine Prentice is an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker who has been in practice for over 31years, in Public Health and Private Practice. She is known for her skills in working closely with those who have experienced trauma, Complex PTS or Dissociation. She assists clients working through the impact of grief, anxiety, depression, sexual abuse, domestic violence, and traumatic events sustained through life. With warmth, Christine works from a Narrative Therapy model that incorporates ACT, Mindfulness, DBT, EMDR and TRTP.

Consultations: Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Rebates: Medicare and Workcover.

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Contact:  P: (02) 4739 6464 M: 0409 025 202

Warwick Poulsen is a Psychologist and Counsellor. He has over twenty years experience working with adults and adolescents in community mental health teams. His holistic approach is informed by Transactional Analysis, Jungian Analytical Psychology, Logotherapy, and other humanistic approaches, as well as Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy. He has received formal training in both Gestalt and EMDR Therapy. Warwick's warm, down-to-earth style makes him a specialist in therapeutic relationship, and his extensive training and practice of Qi Gong and Tai Chi informs his knowledge of moving mindfulness. Consultations: Thursdays, some late appointments available.

Rebates: Medicare and PTS registered.

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Contact: P: (02) 4739 6464 M: 0410 076 874

Josephine Lauria is a Clinical Psychologist with over fifteen years’ experience working with adults and young people on a wide range of concerns. She has worked in both private practice and extensively in Community Health and Mental Health services. Josephine is particularly passionate about treating anxiety and mood disorders, the effects of childhood trauma, and assisting women (and partners/families) who may be experiencing challenges during pregnancy and the postnatal period (adjustment struggles, attachment/bonding difficulties, perinatal loss and/or trauma and relationship changes). Josephine enjoys working collaboratively with clients to develop individualised treatment goals and uses an attachment-based and trauma-informed approach to her work. She is also skilled in using evidence-based treatments such as CBT, DBT, IPT, Schema Therapy, and Compassion-Focused Therapy. Consultations: Tuesday and Thursday (Telehealth only) and Wednesday, some late appointments.

Rebates: Medicare

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Contact: P: (02) 4739 6464 M: 0419 984 313

Linda MacKay is an Individual, Couple and Family Therapist, accredited supervisor and adjunct lecturer at the University of Notre Dame, Australia. She provides clinical supervision and training in couple and family therapy to practitioners and teams (often in adolescent mental health). She also provides consultation and leadership training to individuals and non-clinical organisational and family business environments.  She has published peer reviewed articles on trauma, adolescents and their families, parenting and supervision. Linda utilises a Bowen family systems framework to understand managing conflict, issues related to sex and intimacy, affairs, violence and abuse, and parenting symptomatic children and young people (Parent Hope Project). For more information about Linda’s specialities and publications, go to

https://www.lindamackayconsulting.com/
Consultations: Tuesdays. Rebates: Private Health, Business Coaching.