Ms Nimasha Weerakoon Psychologist (Registrar)

Nimasha is a warm and person-centred autistic Psychologist and Clinical Registrar, who created Candlelight Psychology as a collaborative, safe, open and inclusive spaces to help clients be a little gentler with themselves. Nimasha is community oriented, passionate about intersectional and neurodiversity affirmative care and supporting marginalised groups. She enjoys working with adults of all backgrounds to create change. She recognises the impact of broader systems in our individual contexts and believes in treating distress not difference. Nimasha has worked with people of varied mental health presentations in both community-based and private practice settings offering mixes of both therapy, group programs and psychological assessments. She values lived experience and engages integrative, strengths-based approaches drawing on evidenced-based therapeutic modalities such as Dialectical Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Schema Therapy, Trauma-Informed Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and Somatic Psychology. She strives to work with clients to tailor therapy to their individual needs, and supporting their own capacities. Outside of her work, Nimasha often spends her time either sitting in the sun, hyper-focusing on special interests such as reading, deep diving topics, crafting and playing D&D, or with her loved ones and pets.