Family life in our modern world has never been more challenging. The desire to be the parent that you want to be, alongside managing mixed societal messages about what you ‘should’ be doing, the pressure to ‘provide it all’, while balancing work, relationships and friendships, can leave families feeling overwhelmed, stressed out and at times not knowing who we can turn to for support.

Children and young people are also moving through life with ever increasing pressures to ‘do well’, ‘look good’ and ‘succeed’, often in a world not designed for the way that their brains work best.

Add into the mix parent or child neurodivergence, chronic health conditions and disability, and it can be tough some days to come up for air, acknowledge you are struggling and reach out for support. It is not uncommon for parents to tell themselves for years that they would like to talk about their parenting journey, without taking that first step to reaching out for help.

Feather Psychology is a private psychology practice, specializing in the wellbeing of families, committed to providing psychological support in a way that fits the needs of parents and their children. At the heart of all support, is an approach that is compassionate, genuine, flexible and innovative, listening always to ‘what works’ for families, so that they can live a life doing what is truly meaningful for them.

About Georgie

Qualifications

• PhD in Psychology in from the University of Nottingham, England (2008)

• Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Swinburne University, Australia (2018)

Registration and Professional Memberships

• Registered Psychologist with an Endorsement in Clinical Psychology with the Australian Health Practitioners Association (AHPRA)

• Board Approved Supervisor

• Board Member of the Association for Contextual Behavioural Science, Australia and New Zealand Chapter (ANZ ACBS)

• Foundation board member for the Association for Contextual Behavioural Science (ACBS)

Experience

Georgie graduated in 2004 and has worked in research and clinical services in England, New Zealand and Australia. She currently hold the position of Senior Clinical Psychologist in the Clinical Psychology Service, as well as leading the Parent Wellbeing Clinic within the Department of Neurodevelopment and Disability, both at the Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) in Melbourne. Georgie has the privilege of supporting the mental health of children, young people and their families, who have a chronic health condition or disability, often during the most challenging times of their lives, providing support on an individual as well as group basis, running the ‘Take a Breath’ group, specifically for parents of sick children. She provides regular clinical supervision to Psychologists at various stages of their career, from senior staff, to Psychology Registrars and Postgraduate Provisional Psychologists, in both public and private settings.

Prior to focusing on clinical work, she worked as a Senior Research Fellow in Suicide Prevention at Orygen Youth Health, as well as a Senior Research Fellow in the Complex Autism Team at Monash University, and served as an Editor and peer reviewer for various scientific journals, as well as holding the position of Methodological Editor for the Cochrane Collaboration’s Common Mental Disorders Group. She has published numerous peer reviewed journal articles, in the areas of child and youth depression, suicide prevention and autism.