About
Tahnee is a warm, compassionate and open-minded Clinical Psychologist practicing in Adelaide, South Australia. She sees adults and older adolescents and has experience treating a broad range of clinical presentations and mental health conditions.
She is passionate about working with people to relieve their psychological distress, achieve meaningful change and discover fulfilment in their lives. She has been drawn to Schema Therapy because of its emphasis on the relationship between client and clinician, and its focus on meeting unmet childhood needs.
Tahnee is passionate about helping others to understand and process the impact of difficult childhood experiences, overcome the barriers they are facing and find true happiness, connection and meaning. She has a special interest in the treatment of disordered eating, and offers therapy for bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder and poor body image.
Since becoming a mother, Tahnee has also developed a strong interest in supporting others through the pre and postpartum period. She can offer treatment to address pregnancy and birth related anxiety, treat postnatal depression and support to adjust to the demands and changes that parenthood brings.
Qualifications:
Tahnee is registered as a Clinical Psychologist with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA). Her Registration number is PSY0001809078. She completed a Bachelor of Arts with a Double Major in Psychology and English at the University of Adelaide before pursuing her Honours in Psychological Science. She went on to achieve her Masters in Clinical Psychology, conducting research into Schema Therapy for disordered eating.
Tahnee has over ten years’ experience in the field. She has previously worked in a range of private settings, government departments and not-for-profit organisations providing assessment services, counselling and psychological treatment.
In recent years, Tahnee has focused her professional development in the area of single incident and complex trauma and has developed a passion for understanding the impact of disrupted attachment and early childhood experiences on mental health in adulthood.
Tahnee is a Certified Individual Schema Therapist (Standard Level) with the International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST) and is working towards her certification with the EMDR Association of Australia (EMDRAA).