About me

I began my career in 1995 working as an occupational therapist, mental health clinician and psychotherapist within state and national health services. My clinical experience includes community mental health, addictions, youth mental health, inpatient therapies, mental health rehabilitation and perinatal and infant mental health.

I worked in London for 11 years, and while living there undertook further research and study into dynamic psychotherapy, anthropology, and the history of psychiatry at King’s College London.  I was offered a teaching position at King’s College and worked as a psychotherapist in the Centre of Psychological and Treatment Services, offering psychotherapy to students at King’s College.

Eventually I returned to Australia and commenced my psychoanalytic psychotherapy training through the New South Wales Institute of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.

In 2021, I wrote an essay that was jointly awarded the Rozsika Parker Prize organised by the British Journal of Psychotherapy – focussing on critical engagement with questions of creativity within the field of psychoanalysis.* Receiving this award was an honour and a recognition from my international peers that thinking creatively about what is brought into therapy deepens the understanding of what is being communicated – which brings about meaning and, in turn unveils the potential for lifelong change.

* The essay, published in August 2022 issue of the BJP (vol. 38, no. 3), was about my experience of infant observation. 

Memberships 

Medicare provider number: 5046772K
AHRPA: OCC0001720754
OTA: 9499809