Meet Ally.

Background and professional experience.

Ally is a clinical psychologist and supervisor with over ten years’ experience providing trauma-informed psychological services to children, adolescents and adults.

Ally has worked across a range of contexts including forensic, private, government and not-for-profit. Within these settings, she has provided psychological assessment and treatment for forensic clients and departments; victim/survivors of sexual trauma; emergency services personnel; clients referred by the Victims of Crime Assistance Tribunal; as well as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, young people and families within the out-of-home-care sector.

Ally has also worked for the Children’s Court Clinic, an independent and state-wide specialist service which conducts psychological and psychiatric assessment of children and young people, as well as the capacity of parents and others to carry out parental responsibility. Here, Ally provided clinical assessment and expert witness testimony for children, young people and families facing matters before the Children’s Court of Victoria.

Beyond Ally’s private practice, she currently holds a position as senior clinical psychologist within a specialist trauma-based team for the Victorian Public Mental Health service.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor of Psychological Science

  • Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) (Honours)

  • Master of Psychology (Clinical Psychology)

Professional memberships:

  • Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency - Registered psychologist with approved area of practice in clinical psychology

  • Psychology Board of Australia - Board-approved supervisor

Therapeutic approach.

Ally is a warm, empathic and emotionally attuned person who understands and treats human problems in a way that is empowering, effective and non pathologising. She is passionate about the importance of providing a safe and containing space for people to share, process, learn, integrate and heal. Ally believes that her clients are the experts in their experience and views therapy as a collaborative journey.

Ally integrates a range of evidence-based and trauma-informed therapeutic modalities tailored to the individual’s presenting needs and preferences, drawing from:

  • Internal family systems therapy (IFS);

  • Attachment-informed approaches;

  • Polyvagal theory;

  • Somatic-informed psychotherapy;

  • Exposure-based approaches;

  • Imagery rescripting;

  • Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT);

  • Trauma-focused cognitive behavioural therapy (TF-CBT);

  • Cognitive processing therapy (CPT);

  • Compassion-focused therapy; and

  • Mindfulness-based approaches.

Ally is sex work positive and LGBTIQA+ inclusive.

Additional formal training and certifications:

  • Level 1 Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) trained practitioner with the Mind Beyond Institute, IFS Australia & New Zealand (learn more about IFS here)

  • Trauma-sensitive yoga certified clinician, with Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Australia, based on the trauma aware principles of the Justice Resource Institute, Boston USA (learn more about trauma-sensitive yoga practice here).

Make an enquiry and/or book an initial consultation with Ally here.