Stronger Together

Individual, Couple and Family Support

About Bridie

I believe people are often more skilled and capable than they realize. Sometimes, all it takes is a little space to be heard and someone to believe in them to create the change they were always capable of.

Relationships are one of the most powerful forces in our lives—changing how we interact with each other changes how we think and feel about ourselves and what we do. My aim is to foster change through the therapeutic relationship and help create warm, loving spaces within other relationships that support growth, resilience, and connection.

I completed my Bachelor of Psychology with First Class Honours in 2020 and followed it with a Graduate Certificate in Counselling in 2021. Currently, I’m working towards becoming an accredited family therapist by studying an Advanced Certificate in Couple and Family Therapy at the Family Systems Institute. I am under the supervision of Roxanne Garven, a highly experienced family therapist.

My Clinical Approach

The way that I see and understand problems is through an ecological lens, meaning that I look to a person's relationships with their families, schools, workplaces, communities, societies, identities and cultures to make sense of their individual functioning. My lens has been informed by approaches like Structural Family Therapy, Bowen Family Systems, the Power Threat Meaning Framework, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, Schema Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy, and attachment-based therapy. Alongside these relational approaches, I integrate skills-based therapies like CBT, DBT, and ACT to offer practical strategies for navigating challenges and encouraging personal growth.

How is Bridie’s practice neuro-affirming?

Bridie places a lot of importance on the impact of person-environment mismatch on the presenting problems of the neurodivergent person and their loved ones. Through this lens, she considers factors like the person’s relationships, accommodations, sensory and physiological needs and unique communication style (i.e. double empathy problem) on how the person functions in different contexts. This means that the burden is not entirely placed on the neurodivergent person to learn skills to cope with their environment, but responsibility is shared between the person themselves, environmental accommodations and others around the person.

Services

Individual Therapy

I offer one-on-one sessions to help you address personal issues and improve your mental health.

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Family and Couple Therapy

Help for you and your family to strengthen bonds and repair ruptures.

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Parent Support

I help parents navigate the challenges of raising children, I offer a reflective space to understand your parenting philosophy and how to enact this at home.

Assessment

ADHD and Autism Assessment for Adolescents and Adults.

Bridie is trained in the MIGDAS, DIVA-5, BRIEF Executive Functioning Profile, Vinelands-4 and more.

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Perinatal Support

I help expecting and new parents navigate the emotional challenges of parenthood.

"There is just something so special about being in relationship with others. Both science and observation tells us that relationships have such power to both break us down and build us up.

I have learnt to use the special realationship I have with my clients to help them thrive in the face of uncertainty, take on new challenges, accept hard truths and grow in ways they never thought they would" - Bridie

Bridie's Work

Neuroaffirming Practice

Bridie has completed training in paediatric and adult affirming practice from authors like Marie Camin, Michelle Livock, Sonny Jane Wise, Neurowild, Alison Haynes, Sandhya Menon and others.

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Couple Counseling

Bridie works with neurodiverse couples to help restore loving and fulfilling relationships. Bridie has completed all levels of training in Emotionally Focussed Therapy, certified by ICEEFT.

Family Therapy

Bridie has training in many areas of systemic family therapy. She has completed all training levels of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy and Emotionally Focussed Family Therapy. She has also trained in Bowen Family Systems practice and Interpersonal Neurobiology.

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Trauma Informed

Bridie's work is heavily informed by neuroscience and understanding how our brains and psychology changes according to what happens to us. Bridie has completed training in Schema Therapy, Trauma Focussed CBT and the Power Threat Meaning Framework.

Perinatal Support

Bridie is passionate about early intervention in the perinatal period, she has witnessed the downsteams effects of problems in this period in families. Bridie has completed advanced training in supporting birthing and non birthing parents including in Neuroprotective Developmental Care (the Possums Program), Becoming us (Elly Taylor) and advanced training from COPE.