Adult and Child Psychologist
TeamIt’s important to match you and your child with the Child Psychologist that can offer appointment days and times that work around your family’s commitments in order to ensure sessions are sustainable. We like ensure that the Adult or Child Psychologist is a good match for you or your child based on their practice approach, skills and experience to best meet your needs and current challenges.
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Stacie Hobbs
Brisbane Northside -
Michaela Ward
Brisbane Northside & Northgate Clinic -
Amy Foley
Brisbane Northside -
Steve Rushton
Brisbane Northside & Northgate Clinic -
Rob Pearce
Ipswich Area -
Bianca Eastman
Brisbane Northside -
Julie Paton
Brisbane Northside & Northgate Clinic
Stacie enjoys being enjoys engaging kids in sessions as a child psychologist. Stacie's focus is on engaging kids and developing their resilience and coping skills in order to get through the challenges they face. When Stacie is not working with kids she loves musical theatre and all things creative.
Michaela is passionate about seeing families and young people achieve their best life. With a relaxed and fun approach to therapy she works alongside individuals, couples and families utilising their strengths and values to overcome challenges and develop resilience for the future.
Amy’s areas of interests includes anxiety, stress management, academic and cognitive difficulties, behavioural concerns, emotional regulation and self-esteem issues. Amy has a special interest in working with children, adolescents, young adults, and their families. Amy has a gentle and supportive approach, she aims to respond to the individual needs of each client, and she enjoys teaching new skills to young people and their family. Amy is skilled in completing behavioural, academic, and cognitive assessments.
Steve enjoys working with young men and adults needing support through life's challenges and help setting and achieving goals to make their lives more fulfilling. He works with client who are experiencing anxiety and stress, but he does NOT work with clients who have autism
Rob uses a warm and practical approach to supporting children and families through traumatic events and stressful times. He is particularly skilled in the use of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), interpersonal therapy, narrative therapies and enjoys teaching emotional regulation strategies to both adults and children (including those with limited verbal capacity).
Bianca enjoys working with families with children in infancy through to early adolescence. Raising her own family helps Bianca relate to the joys and challenges of parenting. Bianca makes use of practical strategies from Cognitive behaviour Therapy (CBT) and mindfulness approaches that are backed up by research and flexible enough to be adapted to individual children and families. She loves the opportunity to be creative and playful in sessions with children and is often seen carting around Lego, craft, board games, puppets and an iPad.
Julie has a warm and practical approach to helping families with life challenges and enjoys supporting people of all ages. She uses strengths-based approach to develop positive relationships with all her clients.