Steph

Clinical Psychologist
EMDR Practitioner

Steph (she/her) is a clinical psychologist living on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country in Naarm/Melbourne, after only recently returning from years living on Arrernte Country in Alice Springs.

Steph has been working in public and community mental health settings for the past 8 years, with experience working alongside those experiencing a range of mental health challenges. Steph’s practice integrates a number of therapeutic modes, including somatic-based psychotherapies, internal family systems, attachment-based practices (including those which extend beyond Western, dyadic conceptualisations of attachment), relationally integrated eye movement desensitization reprocessing (RI-EMDR), mindfulness and compassion-based practices. Though not formally trained, Steph is interested in and actively engages with psychodynamic and narrative therapeutic approaches.

Steph’s approach is warm, inviting and connected. She works in ways which center compassion, curiosity, safety and choice, and attends to strengths and wisdoms as well as the challenges that bring people to seek therapeutic support.

Underlying Steph’s work is a commitment to culturally responsive and intersectional practice, which acknowledges the outsized and often ignored/denied impact social and political factors have on mental health and well-being outcomes. She is particularly passionate about working with those who are neurodivergent, queer, living with chronic health conditions, First Nations and from immigrant communities.

For those for whom working therapeutically with someone with shared values, lived experience or experience working in a particular area is important, you’re welcome to reach out to seek further information from Steph.

Steph works Wednesdays and Fridays at Solana Psychology.