Civic Psychology offers a safe and contained space to support the mental health and wellbeing of adults in the inner west Melbourne community.

Working with Keryn can help you -

• to better understand yourself and your patterns of behaviour

• gain insight into how your earlier childhood experiences maybe impacting your current life circumstances

• make connections between your earlier experience of being parented and your experience of being a parent

• work to better understand uncomfortable feelings or unhelpful thoughts that may have begun to arise since you’ve become pregnant or had a child

• learn strategies and tools to better manage your mental health and wellbeing

• improve your mood and reduce your anxiety

• to feel better about yourself and achieve your goals

• increase your wellbeing and satisfaction with life

Keryn is an AHPRA registered clinical psychologist who consults with patients privately or with a GP Mental Health Treatment Plan giving access to Medicare rebated sessions.

Keryn works relationally from an attachment and trauma informed therapeutic orientation and depending on a patient’s needs and preferences, she uses a variety of evidence-based approaches including psychodynamic therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy, mindfulness, and strengths based approaches.

Keryn has experience working with patients across the adult lifespan and has experience working with older adults (65+ years). Keryn works with a range presentations and different mental health concerns and has a particular interest in perinatal mental health and wellbeing. This is often seen as a space for the mental health of expecting and postpartum mothers, however it very much includes a space for partners and fathers and their own perinatal experience. You might seek support in the perinatal period for a number of different concerns including:

• Challenges on your fertility and conception journey

• Assisted conception

• Perinatal loss

• Birth trauma

• Postnatal trauma

• Difficulties developing your motherhood mindset

• Concerns about bonding with your infant

• Maternal rage

• Scary or intrusive thoughts

• Perinatal anxiety

• Perinatal depression

• Challenges in your relationship since becoming a parent

• Challenges in your solo parenting journey

• Cancer in the perinatal period

Keryn has completed professional development in this area and is a Member of The Centre for Perinatal Psychology, she has completed training in Perinatal Non-directive Counselling, The Royal Children’s Hospital Engaging Infants program, The Australian Childhood Foundation’s Bringing Up Great Kids facilitator training and Gottman Bringing Baby Home program. Keryn also has experience working with carers impacted by a cancer diagnosis and is a part of the Carer Psychology Team at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.

Finding the right psychologist is one of the most important aspects of therapy and you may have already tried a few different psychologists and felt they weren’t a good fit. Keryn places great importance on building a trusting and collaborative therapeutic relationship, she offers a warm, safe and confidential space to support you to achieve optimal mental health outcomes and make meaningful changes to improve your life.

Education

• Master of Applied Psychology (Clinical)

• Graduate Diploma of Psychology (Advanced)

• Graduate Diploma of Psychology

• Bachelor of Business (Banking & Finance)