Psychological Therapy
A SAFE, SUPPORTIVE SPACE FOR HEALING
Melinda is an AHPRA registered Clinical Psychologist with more than 10 years experience working with individuals experiencing the impacts of trauma, emotion dysregulation, anxiety, mood, relationship difficulties, and self-esteem issues. She is passionate about helping people recover from trauma, fostering self-compassion, and helping people build connection and meaning in their lives.
Melinda’s goal is to support your unique needs. Her therapeutic approach focuses on creating a safe and genuine relationship to facilitate your innate capacity for healing. Her practice is both trauma-informed and neuroaffirming, and she enjoys working with neurodivergent, sexuality-diverse and gender-diverse people. Melinda acknowledges the impact of social, cultural, and political contexts on mental health and strives to be self-reflective of her own positionality in working with members of minority communities.
Read more about Melinda’s therapeutic approaches below.
Schema Therapy
Schema therapy helps us understand and change deep-rooted patterns in our thoughts, emotions, and behaviours. These patterns develop from life experiences where our emotional needs were not properly met—leading to ongoing struggles with overwhelming emotions, relationship difficulties, unhelpful coping strategies, and low self-esteem.
Through schema therapy we can understand the origins of our difficulties and develop more helpful ways of coping and relating to ourselves and others. It offers a compassionate path towards healing and growth.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
A traumatic event can trigger emotions that are so overwhelming they get in the way of the brain’s natural healing process. EMDR helps people heal from traumatic experiences and distressing memories, by using bilateral stimulation (eye movements) to help the brain reprocess and release painful emotions. This unlocks our natural capacity for healing and can reduce the emotional impact of past events or memories on our everyday lives. As a result, we feel more present, confident, and capable of coping with life’s challenges.
Understanding that our struggles are inevitable consequences of our life experiences, rather than personal flaws, opens up new possibilities for our lives.
