Kelly is a psychologist with a passion for supporting individuals and families affected by cancer, illness, and other life-changing events.  She has experience working across the cancer continuum, including diagnosis, active treatment, survivorship, recurrence, palliative care, and bereavement. Kelly understands the complex emotional challenges that can arise at each stage and how these can continue long after medical treatment has ended.

Kelly offers a warm, collaborative, and empowering therapeutic approach grounded in evidence-based practice. Her work is trauma-informed and integrative, with expertise in supporting clients experiencing trauma, adjustment difficulties, anticipatory grief, and the psychological impact of illness on identity, relationships, and quality of life.  She specialises in multi-modal treatment using Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), and Schema Therapy, carefully tailoring her interventions to support meaningful and lasting outcomes.

Kelly holds multiple qualifications from Monash University and RMIT, including a Master of Counselling and a Graduate Diploma of Psychology with First Class Honours. She is registered with the Psychology Board of Australia (AHPRA) and is a member of the Australian Psychological Society (APS), the EMDR Association of Australia (EMDRAA), Australasian Menopause Society and International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS).

In addition to her clinical work, Kelly has contributed to government policy and program management and has published internationally on coping with addiction in families. She currently volunteers as a facilitator with the Self-Help Addiction Resource Centre (SHARC) and the APS Disaster Response Network and has previously volunteered with Mercy Palliative Care and the National Association for Grief and Loss.

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