I work exclusively with children aged 3 to 11, and adolescent girls between 12 and 17 years old. I specialise in child-centred play therapy (CCPT) and person-centred therapy (PCT). In my work with teenage girls, I sometimes draw from solution-focused, cognitive behavioural and sand tray therapeutic modalities. But my overall approach is rooted in person-centred theory.

Katharine Cook is a registered Child and Family Psychologist who specialises in the areas of attachment, separation, trauma, anxiety, grief, child behaviour, adolescent issues, perinatal depression and parenting issues. Over the past 15 years, Katharine has worked internationally in a Paediatric AIDS Hospice in South Africa and in Family Assessment services in the UK, providing specialist assessment in Family Law and Child Protection matters. In Sydney, Katharine worked in a drug and alcohol rehabilitation unit (Phoebe House), a trauma counselling service (Physical Abuse and Neglect of Children Counselling Service, Western Sydney Community Health) and in statutory child protection (Department of Community Services, Eastern Sydney Community Services Centre). Katharine is now the Principal Psychologist at the Family Psychology Practice, based in the Northern Beaches of Sydney where she provides individual and family therapy, victims of crime counselling, disaster and critical incident psychological responses and consults to NGOs and government departments in the areas of child protection, trauma, domestic violence and attachment.

Natalie provides individual and group dramatherapy programs to support children’s mental health. Dramatherapy is a psychological therapy that uses creative approaches to explore challenges. Natalie has worked with children who have experienced emotional trauma including abuse, neglect, grief and loss, at –risk young people in alternative education, within adolescent eating disorder and adult mental health services and provides group programs for children who’s parents are recovering from addiction.