Clinical Psychologist
Carolyn is an experienced clinical psychologist and board-approved supervisor (for provisional psychologists and clinical psychology registrars). Carolyn uses evidence-based insight-oriented and action-oriented therapies, including Schema Therapy, ACT, CBT, Existential-informed therapy, Psychodynamic therapy, and EMDR. Carolyn tailors her approach to each client’s unique needs, goals, and preferences, believing that a one-size-fits-all method is not useful. Carolyn deeply believes in equality and finds it very sad that we’re in a world where it is necessary to state she is a safe place for diversity of all types (and she is).
With a practical, integrative, and attachment-informed approach, Carolyn works with adults and older adults across a broad range of health, life, relationship, and work-related issues. She supports individuals experiencing depression, anxiety, panic, trauma, stress, grief, and loss. She is passionate about physical health-related impacts on mental health, including adjustment to, and coping with, illness or injury (including through workers compensation and other insurance models).
Carolyn deeply values working with people affected by cancer, other life-limiting illnesses, and diabetes (especially Type 1, MODY, LADA, and secondary diabetes). She is also currently very excited by the increasing research into women’s health and hormonal influences on mental health andwellbeing (such as endometriosis, perimenopause, and menopause (including medically induced)).
Carolyn enjoys working with individuals navigating transitions and adjustments, such as relationship changes, infertility, age-related changes, retirement, migration adjustment difficulties, and work-related challenges. With training and experience in psychodynamic and existential therapy, Carolyn also enjoys working with existential concerns, including questions of life, death, meaning, purpose, and climate and emerging technology change distress.
Carolyn has experience working with health practitioners (including psychologists) and first responders, understanding the complexities of these areas.
Outside of work, Carolyn enjoys caring for her adult cats and fostering shelter kittens, contemplating life, reading, attending live music or comedy, spending time with friends, and trying new things. It’s completely ok if you don’t share her interests, sessions are about you!
Please note: Carolyn’s current clinic room is upstairs with no lift access, but she hopes this will be able to change one day to accommodate those unable to use stairs.
