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Meet Our Clinical Team

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Allie Mackay

Principal Psychologist & Founder

Qualifications:

  • BSocSci (Psychology)(Hons)

  • Board Approved Supervisor 

  • EMDR Consultant, EMDRAA

  • IFS Institute (lvl 2) Trained 

  • Work Cover Accredited, SIRA

  • Attachment informed EMDR Facilitator @ EMDR Focus UK/USA/Australia

  • IFS informed EMDR Facilitator @ EMDR Insight 

Areas of Focus:

  • Women's health, Menopause, parenting transitions 

  • Recent event and complex Trauma

  • Police, Ambulance and Fire Services - First responder PTSD- Work Cover

  • Mindfulness based interventions including MBSR, MBCT and MSC

    • Groups - First responders

    • Recovery after cancer

    • Compassion focussed therapy

  • Anxiety, Worry,  Chronic health conditionsOCD, perfectionism 

  • Supervision - Psychology registrars

  • EMDR consultation towards accreditation with EMDRAA

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Alexis Hudson

Senior Psychologist, AHPRA

​Qualifications:

  • Bachelor of Social Science (Psychology) – BSocSci (Psychology)

  • Postgraduate Diploma in Psychology

  • Registered Psychologist with AHPRA

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Areas of Focus:

Alexis works with adolescents and adults experiencing a wide range of emotional, behavioural, and psychological challenges, including:

  • Anxiety disorders, including excessive worry, panic, social anxiety, health anxiety, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

  • Perfectionism, self-criticism, and high achievement pressures

  • Stress, burnout, and overwhelm

  • disordered eating and body image concerns

  • Life transitions, adjustment to change, and navigating uncertainty

  • Women's mental health throughought the lifespan, including PMDD, fertility, pregnancy, postpartum adjustment, perimenopause, menopause, and the emotional challenges associated

  • Parenting challenges and supporting parents through the changing demands of family life

  • Chronic pain management using evidence-based psychological and body-based approaches

  • Building resilience, psychological flexibility, wellbeing, and meaningful living

Alexis has a particular interest in helping people struggling with anxiety, overwhelm, perfectionism, or self-doubt. She works collaboratively with clients to understand the patterns that keep them feeling stuck and supports them to develop greater self-awareness, emotional flexibility, and confidence.

Her therapeutic style is warm, genuine, and practical. She aims to create a safe, non-judgemental space where clients feel heard and supported while working towards lasting, meaningful change aligned with what matters most to them.​

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Natalie Janinski

Counsellor

Qualification:

  • Masters of Counselling

  • Graduate Diploma in Counselling

  • Bachelor of Psychology, BDA

Areas of Focus:

Natalie is a neurodivergent counsellor trained in experiential approaches
including Internal Family Systems (IFS), Coherence Therapy, and EMDR.

These approaches engage the brain’s natural memory reconsolidation (or memory updating) process, which allows for transformation of traumatic memories and unhelpful beliefs to alleviate the distress that can surface as a result; such as anxiety, depression, relationship issues, burnout, physical tension or pain, and self-sabotage.
The process of updating our memories in experiential therapy can profoundly shift old reaction patterns, and often leads to aha! moments of new insights and clarity. In turn, people often (re)discover an authentically calm, confident, and curious self, a place from which meaningful change begins.
Alongside these models, Natalie offers evidence-based somatic interventions, including yoga informed movements, breath work, polyvagal techniques, emotional freedom tapping and mindful focusing.

Natalie's intentions as your therapeutic guide is for you to become your own self-led healer throughout life’s challenges, equipped with practices that support sustainable, long-term stability and wellness.
Mostly working with adults who have experienced complex trauma, as well as those experiencing mood, regulation and arousal concerns (i.e., depression, anxiety, numbness, anger), relationship difficulties, self-esteem and self-advocacy issues,
neurodiversity related concerns, grief and loss, addictive patterns, and identity or life transitions.

Natalie offers services to those with private funding, self-managed NDIS plans,
private health insurance (depending on provider), and through WorkCover.
Natalie believes that we all have the ability to live peacefully and confidently, and that it would be an honour to walk with you as a guide on your healing journey. 

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