About Alexandra

Hello, I'm Alexandra (she/they). I'm a clinical psychologist based in Perth, Western Australia, on Whadjuk Noongar Boodja. I work with gifted, autistic, and ADHD young people and women, helping them understand how their complex minds work and what they need to thrive.

I came to this work through my son, Toby, who is autistic and minimally speaking. He changed me fundamentally, and opened something I had no access to before him. I loved him so much, and all the ways I was taught to connect did not work. They either did not reach him, or they overwhelmed him. We had to find our own way to each other, beyond words and beyond everything I had been taught. It was also through this journey of connecting with Toby that I began to recognise my own autism, alongside the ADHD that I have known about since childhood.

My practice leans towards adolescents and adults where I'm most passionate about depth-oriented work - being present with all of you, not just the parts that are easy to hold. The edges, the shadowy parts, the things that are yet to have language.

I aim to create a therapeutic space that celebrates play, honours non-linear growth, and makes room for the beautiful messiness of human existence.

Experience

I work across the lifespan, from young children through to older adults. Currently I'm in private practice at The Elizabeth Clinic, where I've been since 2017, and at Perth Children's Hospital and King Edward Memorial Hospital in the Neonatal Follow-up Program.

My practice is rooted in a person-centred framework, informed by Jungian, interpersonal neurobiology, attachment theory, and geek therapy concepts. My work has also taken me into remote and rural Aboriginal communities, experiences that continue to shape my commitment to practising in ways that are anti-racist and decolonising.

Certifications

  • Master of Applied Psychology (Clinical)

  • Registered Clinical Psychologist (AHPRA PSY0001906383)

  • Board Approved Clinical Psychology Supervisor.

  • Circle of Security Facilitator.

  • Mentalisation Based Therapy Reflective Parenting Facilitator

  • Problematic Gaming Specialist (Geek Therapy).

  • LOAPAC member.

Values and stance

Relationships are central to healing. It's in the experience of relationship where we experience safety, playfulness, and the capacity to learn. We learn best through play, and we can only play when we feel safe.

I don't believe the problem lives in the individual by default. It lives in the context, in the systems around them. People often carry the weight of collective distress and systemic repression, and then assume it's all theirs to fix.

The further you sit from the mainstream, the less you see yourself reflected back. That invisibility is its own trauma. When your experience is absent from the stories, the language, and the frameworks around you, your sense of self stays murky. You can't be what you can't see.

Therapy is about being deeply seen. Being seen in relationship creates safety. Safety creates the capacity to play. And from there, learning and growing can happen.

Neurodiversity-affirming · Trauma-informed · HAES-aligned · LGBTQIA+ inclusive · Embodied · Anticolonialist

If something here resonates, I'd be glad to hear from you.

Warmly, Alex