Tracy is authentic and warm towards her clients. She holds positive regard, and believes in helping clients to manage their unresolved issues to maximise their growth as well as to improve their emotional and mental wellbeing. Tracy’s non-judgemental approach sees that she tends to build rapport and trust readily with clients. This provides clients with a sense of safety in therapy and helps to achieve optimal psychological outcomes.
Tracy is a psychologist registered with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) and is a member of the Australian Psychological Society. She completed a Bachelor of Biomedicine first, then found her passion in Psychology and completed a Graduate Diploma in Psychology and Graduate Diploma in Psychology (Advanced) at the University of Melbourne. She then completed her psychology internship working with forensic clients with a range of complex presentations. Tracy is trained in several evidence-based approaches, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT). She is also passionate about Schema Therapy, Couples Therapy and Emotionally Focused Therapy.
Tracy has worked with clients presented with a range of complex mental health presentations, including trauma, depression and anxiety, adjustment issues, substance abuse, antisocial personality traits, ADHD, disability, and grief and loss. She is interested in helping clients with a wide range of difficulties, such as depression, anxiety, grief and loss, issues related to family, interpersonal relationships and couples, attachment issues, behaviours related to addiction, anger management, workplace issues, career and life coaching, life and career transition, identity, and self-esteem.
In addition to the above, coming from a Chinese immigrant family herself, Tracy is also deeply passionate about working with clients from the Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) backgrounds. She appreciates immensely the importance of cultural understanding in therapy, and how this contributes to change and progress in therapy. With this in mind, Tracy is interested in helping clients with both the unique challenges that arise from their own culture and identity, as well as cross-cultural difficulties within self and in the community.