Pronouns: She/Her
Natalie is a warm, genuine, and engaging clinical psychologist dedicated to creating a safe and validating space for clients to explore their inner experiences.
Approach
Natalie adopts a neurodivergent affirming approach and aims to foster a safe, non-judgemental, and inclusive space for her clients. She understands the importance of the therapeutic relationship in promoting positive change. In cultivating an authentic professional relationship, Natalie prefers a collaborative and client-centred approach as she recognises that we all have unique experiences, triggers, and coping mechanisms.
Experience and Interests
Natalie has worked with a variety of complex presentations spanning children, adolescents, and adults across a range of settings. Her professional journey includes roles in early parenting and childhood services, hospitals, educational settings, as well as prisons and behaviour change residential programs. Natalie has experience and an interest in working with issues related to anxiety, self-worth and perfectionism, executive dysfunction, emotion dysregulation and anger, grief, addictions, and disrupted early attachments and relationships.
Therapies
Natalie primarily works from a Schema Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) framework. Her approach is integrative and tailored to each client’s individual needs, and she also draws on concepts from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), and Motivational Interviewing to support meaningful and sustainable change.
How is Natalie Described by Her Clients?
Natalie is described as honest, approachable, and compassionate. Her clients have expressed experiencing genuine care and integrity, whilst being encouraged to explore their inner worlds in a non-confrontational way.
Natalie Personally
On a personal level, Natalie enjoys travelling and camping, reading, competitive cycling, as well as strategy-based board games and video games.