About Louisa

I am a Melbourne-based psychologist working with adults experiencing difficulties in relationships, emotions, self-worth, and sense of self. I offer a thoughtful, collaborative therapy space to make sense of experiences that feel difficult to understand or change alone.


Therapy Approach

I work from a relational psychodynamic approach, which means I am interested in how unresolved experiences, emotional and thinking patterns, relationships, and ways of coping shape the way we experience ourselves, others, and navigate the world around us. Rather than seeing symptoms in isolation, we understand them within the context of a person’s life, relationships, coping strategies, and emotional world. Therapy offers space to think together about these experiences in depth with curiosity and compassion.

While insight is important, therapy is not purely intellectual. Change involves emotional experience as well: developing the capacity to feel, reflect, tolerate vulnerability and uncertainty, and gradually respond to yourself and others differently over time.

The therapeutic relationship is central to my work. I aim to provide a thoughtful, collaborative space that feels safe enough to explore difficult or unfamiliar experiences together. I also pay attention to what happens both inside and outside the therapy room, including how relationship patterns may emerge, be understood, and begin to change.

Clinical Background

My clinical background includes work across inpatient, outpatient, community, and private practice settings with people experiencing a range of mental health presentations.

Registration & Memberships
Registered Psychologist – Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
Clinical Psychology Registrar – AHPRA
Member of the Australian Association of Psychologists
Member of the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
ANZAED Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician

Qualifications & Education
Master of Clinical Psychology –Queensland University of Technology
Bachelor of Behavioural Science (Honours Psychology) –Queensland University of Technology
Bachelor of Social Science (Psychology) –RMIT University
Additional training in psychodynamic psychotherapy, attachment-informed therapy, perinatal mental health, Focal Psychodynamic Therapy for Anorexia Nervosa (FPT) , and Enhanced Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Eating Disorders (CBT-E).