Lee holds an Honours degree in Psychology and a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, both from Macquarie University. She is a registered Clinical Psychologist with The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) and is a Full Member of the Australian Clinical Psychologists Association (ACPA). Lee is a board-approved supervisor and provides clinical supervision for clinical and general psychologists across a range of areas, including general adult psychology, child and family psychology and perinatal psychology. 

 

Lee is a warm, compassionate, thoughtful and patient therapist who feels passionate about building a sense of safety and connection within the therapeutic relationship. With a deep commitment to empowering her clients, Lee works collaboratively and respectfully to help individuals reduce suffering and improve psychological wellbeing, whilst working towards a stronger and more integrated sense of self. She believes in fostering self-awareness, self-compassion, self-regulation and self-curiosity as an integral part of living life more freely and meaningfully.    

 

Lee has over 25 years of experience across public and private health systems, providing assessment and treatment of children, adolescents and adults experiencing stress and anxiety, depression, complex trauma, PTSD, grief and loss, life transitions, relationship difficulties, personality vulnerabilities and issues relating to gender and sexuality diversity.  

 

Lee has a special interest in perinatal and infant mental health. She is passionate about supporting families during the perinatal period from conception, through pregnancy, and in the postpartum period, being conscious of the importance of addressing concerns during this critical period. She is deeply interested in exploring ways to facilitate a secure, loving bond between parents and infants and gently supporting parents heal their own experience of being parented. Lee is highly experienced in working with the deeply distressing experience of losing a baby, typically through miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal or infant death (Perinatal Bereavement). Lee also has a strong interest in working through the effects of trauma, both single, unexpected incidents, as well as complex trauma. She has undertaken specialized training in trauma-informed therapies to best support her clients in the process of recovering from trauma.  

 

Lee offers an integrative treatment approach, grounded in a relational and attachment-informed framework. She tailors therapy to individual needs, drawing on a range of evidence-based therapy models, including Internal Family Systems Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing therapy (EMDR), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Schema Therapy, Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), as well as psychodynamic, and supportive psychotherapy approaches. 

 

Lee is registered Circle of Security parent training facilitator and is a member of The Circle of Security International, the Australian Association of Infant Mental Health (AAIMHI), the EMDR Association of Australia (EMDRAA), and the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP).