Michelle is a caring and compassionate person who has worked in different contexts with clients from a variety of cultural backgrounds and socio-economic contexts. She has 17 years of experience as a registered psychologist (13 years in South Africa and 4 years in Australia). She is happy to work with people who are facing a range of life’s challenges within a trauma informed structure. She finds it important to provide a safe space where all thoughts and feelings are considered valid and can be expressed.

Michelle works together with clients to develop kinder relationships to themselves through processing feelings, developing self understandings and building connections to different parts of the self. This aims to alleviate distress as well as to provide different ways of thinking, being and relating to oneself and others.

Michelle is trained in several evidence-based approaches, including Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT). Her approach is trauma informed, neuroaffirming and LGBTIQA+ affirming. She understands psychological difficulties from psychodynamic theory including attachment-based theories within an interpersonal therapy framework.