Qualifications & Education
Kylie is a Registered Psychologist (Clinical Psychology Registrar) with a Masters of Applied Psychology (Clinical Psychology) and a Masters of Professional Psychology from Victoria University. She also holds a Bachelor of Psychological Sciences (Honours in Psychological Studies) from Swinburne University. Kylie holds membership with the Australian Psychology Association (APS) and the Australian Association of Psychologists Inc (AAPi).
Kylie’s Approach
Kylie is committed to providing her clients with personalised, evidence-based assessment and psychotherapy. She recognises the sensitive nature of the therapeutic relationship and approaches it with compassion, warmth, and understanding. Her goal is to create a safe, non-judgmental space where clients can explore their difficulties openly and freely. Kylie believes in the importance of empathy and genuine connection in therapy. She works collaboratively with each individual to help them gain deeper insights into themselves, their relationships with others, and their interactions with the world around them.
Kylie’s primary therapeutic approach is grounded in psychodynamic principles. Kylie has experience with several evidence-based treatments, including cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), mentalisation-based therapy (MBT), mindfulness and dialectical behavioural therapy (DBT). Kylie is currently training in Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP).
Her style combines deep compassion with evidence-based practices, making her approach both integrative and highly personalised to meet each client’s unique needs. Kylie brings a unique blend of directness, humour, and challenge to the therapeutic process, where the goal is not just symptom relief but also transformative change in how clients experience and respond to their emotions, themselves, and others.
Work History & Interests
Kylie has experience in treating a broad spectrum of psychological issues, including anxiety, depression, and interpersonal/relationship difficulties, parenting challenges, grief, trauma, personality disorders and supporting neurodivergent clients. She has worked with children, adolescents, and adults across various settings and has experience conducting psychometric assessments across the lifespan.
In addition to her work with common emotional and relational difficulties, Kylie is passionate about helping clients navigate life transitions, enhance their emotional resilience, and develop healthier patterns of relating.
Kylie understands the unique challenges of parenting and offers parent sessions as part of her services at Mindwell. She adopts a reflective approach that draws on mentalisation, attachment theory, and reflective functioning principles to enhance parents’ and children’s emotional and behavioural development and well-being.
Kylie is also passionate about neuroaffirming psychological care. She takes a neuroaffirming stance, recognising that cognitive and neurological differences, including but not limited to ADHD, autism spectrum conditions, dyslexia, and other neurodivergent traits, are part of an individual’s make-up. Kylie works with clients to understand and embrace their brain’s unique wiring, building on their strengths and accommodating their challenges in a way that is affirming and supportive while recognising the barriers one may face within a neuronormative society.
Kylie works with individuals experiencing a range of difficulties, including;
- Stress,
- Depression,
- Anxiety,
- Social Anxiety,
- Adjustment Difficulties
- Emotional Dysregulation
- Interpersonal and Relationship challenges.
- Parenting adjustment/stress
- Trauma/Complex Trauma