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Registered Psychologist

Jody Kenney

Jody Kenney

BPsych, MPsych.

How others describe me

Caring, personable, productive, honest and patient.

My Spins

  • Reading – even though it takes me months to read one book
  • Cats – cuddling cats, watching act videos, talking to my cats.
  • Reality TV – Real Housewives, Below Deck, Survivor, the list could go on and on
  • Watching documentaries
  • My two kids because they are the cutest and funniest in the whole world.

My Work Passions

  • Working in a neurodiversity affirming way
  • Supporting families
  • Supporting kids and families who have been newly diagnosed and just beginning their journey.
  • Working with the occasional adult so I get to have an adult conversation.
  • Building strong and genuine therapeutic relationships with my clients
Emily Willis

Emily Willis

Provisional Psychologist

How others describe me

Encouraging, insightful, caring, quirky sense of humour, and optimistic

My Spins

  • Binge watching Netflix shows
  • Spending time basking in the sun
  • The smell of lemon grass
  • Watching true crime documentaries
  • Adding endless items to my Amazon wish list

My Work Passions

  • being ND affirming
  • Working with people who have experienced trauma
  • Working with people off all ages, their families, and support systems
  • Listening without judgement because acceptance and healing can start from a conversation
  • Walking alongside each person's unique journey and helping them feel seen, heard, and connected
Kate Gardiner

Kate Gardiner

Provisional Psychologist

How others describe me

Friendly, caring, passionate, and goofy

My Spins

  • Spending time with my two cats and my dog.
  • Fried Chicken: I’m often known as the "chicken nugget girl" among my family and friends. I’ve let my obsession with fried chicken take me on adventures to find the best in the world, the favourite I’ve had so far was in Atlanta!
  • Watching sports: My favourite teams are Hawthorn in the AFL, Boston Celtics in the NBA and the New Orleans Saints in the NFL. I have been lucky enough to travel to the USA to see the Celtics play 2 basketball games in 2019, and I’m hoping to travel there again to see a gridiron game and see the Saints play for the first time!

My Work Passions

  • Being ND affirming
  • Being an LGBTQIA+ Ally.
  • Supporting PDA profiles and people who are AuADHD.
  • Supporting neurodivergent people with their interpersonal and romantic relationships
  • Integrating my Graduate Diploma in Sexology to support my clients and their families
Jade Levens

Jade Levens

Provisional Psychologist

How others describe me

Passionate, curious, creative, empathetic, and fidgety

My Spins

  • Dogs (especially golden retrievers)
  • Harry Potter (my favourite character is Sirius Black)
  • Strong coffee
  • Finding new games to play (current hyperfixation: Catan)

My Work Passions

  • ND affirming
  • LGBTQIA+ ally
  • Eating disorders of all kinds, disordered eating, body image concerns, self-esteem
  • Adolescents and young adults
  • AuDHD'ers and PDA profiles
Brian Lim

Brian Lim

Registered Psychologist

How others describe me

Tenacious, grounded, knowledgeable, eccentric, insightful

My Spins

  • Extremely tiny yet functional things
  • "Grand" stories in any medium - Terry Pratchett, Adventure Time, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Undertale, et al.
  • Video and table-top gaming - A past me spent some time as an eSports coach
  • Sharing both space and time with friends, relatives, and found family
  • Food-based experiences - 2024's recommendation is candied tomatoes 🍅✨
  • Hobbyist PC building / tinkering / repair, ~2-3 builds in a year
  • Photography
  • Endless ignoble learning & picking up the first 20% of nigh every interest

My Work Passions

  • Service, support, and safety rooted in meaning and purpose - Existential psychology, logotherapy, causal layered analysis, and a little bit of narrative therapy
  • Being trauma-informed by way of neurology and attachment theory
  • Times of adjustment across the lifespan
  • Supporting the carers and the helpers
  • Neurodiversity affirming practice (with a specific interest in cross-neurotype relations)
  • Gender and sexual diversity across the lifespan
Lydia Frampton

Lydia Frampton

Provisional Psychologist

How others describe me

Calm, open-minded, having a strong sense of justice, dedicated

My Spins

  • Gilmore Girls
  • Crafts: handmade birthday cards, collage, embroidery, drawing
  • Walking and running by the river or ocean
  • Any kind of Yoga that involves a lot a lying down
  • Local live music events and dancing (if you see me on the dancefloor – no you didn’t)

My Work Passions

  • Expression through play therapy and art therapy
  • Using bottom-up/body-based exercises in combination with cognitive tools to manage anxiety and dysregulation
Lydia Frampton

Jacki Harris

Administration Assistant

How others describe me

Adventurous, kind, generous, meticulous, persevering

My Spins

  • Reading – mainly crime & murder mysteries
  • Jigsaw puzzles
  • Online shopping which can be very dangerous for my wallet!
  • Going down rabbit holes & spreadsheets!

My Work Passions

  • Working in a ND affirming workplace
  • Being ND affirming
  • Connecting, listening to and supporting ND families as much as possible
  • Being valuable and productive

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