BA (Hons) Psychology

Master of Public Health (Hons.)

Master of Clinical Psychology

Amanda is a co-founder of Aberfoyle Psychology. 

A registered clinical psychologist, Amanda has undertaken post-graduate training in clinical psychology and worked with children, adolescents and families since 1995. She has extensive experience working in NSW Health community child and family teams, providing assessment and treatment for a range of developmental, emotional, behavioural and mental health difficulties that children and young people experience.

Amanda is a warm and empathic therapist who understands the importance of trust and mutual respect within the therapeutic relationship. She aims to work with children and their families to develop a shared understanding of the reasons for psychological assessment and therapy, and a shared commitment to the pathways to change. She is trained to undertake evidence-based approaches to psychological assessment and therapy, including acceptance-based approaches and cognitive-behavioural therapy. 

As well as having worked at the Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, where she examined psychology students on their ability to assess children and adults using cognitive tests, Amanda has worked at the Macquarie University Centre for Emotional Health, a specialist clinic for the treatment of child, adolescent and adult anxiety disorders. At the clinic she provided evidence-based individual and family treatment for anxiety and ran a group program for parents called Creating Confident Kids.

Amanda's paper on the emotional functioning of internationally adopted children living in Australia was published in Adoption Quarterly, July-September 2011, an international peer-reviewed journal.