Carmel is a clinical psychologist with extensive experience working with children aged between 0 and 12 years and their parents across public and community health settings, schools and educational settings, as well as private practice.
Carmel has a Doctorate of Clinical Psychology with a specialisation in child, adolescent and family psychology. She provides psychological therapy and parenting support for families with infants, toddlers and children experiencing social, developmental, cognitive, behavioural and emotional challenges. Carmel also works with parents and infants from a parent-infant psychotherapy perspective to address relational issues such as bonding, attachment and transition to parenthood.
Carmel strongly holds to GLOW’s philosophy of holistic and family-focused therapy, and has a focus on supporting families to build healthy parent-child relationships and working with families to repair these relationships where they may be challenging or strained. She is a trained facilitator for Circle of Security program, which is focused on supporting the development of positive and secure parent-child relationships.
“I truly believe that just as a child needs to be nurtured and held, a parent also needs to be nurtured and held in their journey.”
Outside of work, Carmel is mum two very busy little ones!
