Meet The Team

Qualifications: Bachelor of Arts (Psychology and Humanities) specializing in Psychology and Sociology, Postgraduate Diploma in Psychology, Master of Psychology (Counselling), and PhD in Psychology (Counselling). Certified Bereavement Practitioner, Trained Crisisline Counsellor, and Family Mediator focusing on adolescents. Experience: Hellen is a registered psychologist who brings significant life experience to her work. She has worked within the physical/mental health field since the age of 16 commencing as a frontline desk administrator who quickly advanced to become a personal assistant/office manager at Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute.

Hellen moved into tertiary study in 2009 to follow her passion in psychological studies. She has extensive research experience relating to loss and grief, and the impact of trauma on an individual. She has spent the last 7 years working closely with the bereaved within a range of settings including Aged Care, loss and grief associated with violence and/or crime, and suicide. Hellen has experience working with diverse communities such as Indigenous and LGBTIQA+ individuals. She is an experienced loss and grief support group facilitator, and educator, and has supervised other practitioners working within the loss and grief space.

Hellen has a thoughtful and engaging style meeting her clients with warmth and curiosity. She uses a range of evidence-based interventions such as Play Therapy, Narrative Therapy, CBT, and Schema Therapy as she journeys alongside her clients. She is currently completing her Supervisor Training as an APS Board Approved Supervisor as well as completing Advanced Training in EMDR, a specific trauma-based therapy.

Appropriate Referrals Include:
5 years +

* Loss and Grief

* Companion animal loss

* Trauma/PTSD

* Depression

* Anxiety

* Relationship/Conflict

* Well-being/Stress management including living with chronic illnesses such as Diabetes

* Parenting