Relationships Counsellor and Family Therapist

Clinical Family Therapist and Accredited Mental Health Social Worker

Bachelor of Arts (Gender Studies)

Masters of Social Work (MAASW)

Accredited Mental Health Social Worker and AASW member

Masters of Clinical Family Therapy (McFT)

Gottman Method Couples Therapy Level 1

Services

Couples/Relationship counselling

Family Therapy

Background and Experience

Katie is an accredited mental health social worker and experienced clinical family therapist who has worked in child and adolescent, forensic and adult clinical mental health for the past ten years. She has managed multidisciplinary teams and provided supervision, reflective practice and clinical consultation to teams. Katie has worked with individuals, couples and families to improve their relationships and wellbeing. Katie is trained in a number of individual and systemic therapies and practices in an integrated manner.

Relationship Counselling

Katie is passionate about helping couples to understand themselves and one another in the context of their relationship and goals. Katie works from an attachment basis seeking to understand the early relational foundations that may be keeping couples stuck in unhelpful patterns of relating to one another. Katie identifies the inherent strengths and resources couples possess to enable them to build the relationship they desire. Katie has worked with diverse couples experiencing challenges such as infidelity, trauma, grief and loss, mental health and life transitions. She has also worked with couples seeking to proactively navigate the challenges of relationships more effectively. Katie is interested in the ways in which couples navigate closeness and distance and how this effects the relationship.  Katie utilises the Gottman Method of Couples Therapy, Emotion Focused Therapy, Contextual Family Therapy and Systemic Therapy amongst other modalities. Katie has also been influenced by neurobiological approaches to co-regulation in couples therapy. Katie is an LGBTQIA+ and neurodiversity friendly practitioner.

Family and Adolescent Therapy

Katie sees families, parents of children of all ages and young people aged twelve and over. Family Therapy is a systemic type of therapy that allows families to come together to understand emotions and struggles within the family system in a new way. Family Therapy supports strong attachments between caregivers and their children, co-parents, extended family and siblings. It can help to resolve conflict and find new ways to connect. Katie utilises attachment based family therapy, structural family therapy and contextual therapy to support families and children to step outside of problematic interactional patterns and find new ways forward.