Louise Kelso

BPsycSc (Honours); DPsych (Clinical) Candidate; Assoc MAPS

Louise is a Registered Psychologist with a broad range of experience, having worked with children, adolescents, adults, and older adults across a variety of clinical settings. She has experience providing psychological interventions for a range of presentations including depression, anxiety, self-esteem issues and difficulty adjusting to transitional life stages.

Louise has a particular passion for working with adolescents, and helping people with anxiety difficulties. Louise can also provide comprehensive assessments of emotional and intellectual (IQ) functioning for children, adolescents and adults.

Louise takes a client centred approach to her practice and is committed to giving clients the tools and strategies to overcome their difficulties both in the short term and throughout their lives. Louise works predominantly from a cognitive-behavioural approach; however she also employs other approaches when appropriate, such as values-focused and mindfulness-based therapies.

Louise is currently completing her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, which consists of advanced clinical training in treating people with mental health problems. She is also conducting research into memory and emotion in her thesis titled Behavioural Validation of the Self-projection Hypothesis.