Monique is passionate about treating adults with complex trauma from childhood, eating disorders, chronic anxiety, low self-esteem, and helping parents who want to break the cycle of intergenerational trauma with their own children to create harmonious homes.
Monique has experience working with adults, families, and children in private practice. In addition to achieving the Eating Disorder Credential with ANZAED, she is working towards accreditation in Schema Therapy with the International Society of Schema Therapy. She has undergone extensive training in Schema Therapy to treat Trauma, Eating Disorders, Personality Disorders, and Addiction.
Monique’s treatment approach includes Schema Therapy, Enhanced Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT-E), and the Shark Cage Framework. She is experienced in treating complex trauma (C-PTSD), Eating Disorders such as Atypical Anorexi Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder, Other Specified Eating Disorders, and Anxiety Disorders.
What separates Monique from other Psychologists and Eating Disorder Clinicians is that she has undergone extensive training in trauma. She understands that there is much more happening underneath the surface. Therefore, Monique is trained in supporting individuals who have chronic mental health struggles. For example, you may have struggled with anxiety, body dissatisfaction, or low self-esteem for most of your life – Some years it’s more severe than others, but it always seems to be there. If this resonates with you, you have found the right Psychologist.
In the therapy room with Monique you will experience genuine warmth, nurturance, gentleness, and definitely laughter. You can expect a strong and meaningful therapeutic relationship to be formed built on core needs, whether this is your first experience with therapy, or you have tried therapy before but you have not found the right fit. Her approach is collaborative and evidence-based to foster productive sessions and long-lasting progress. Monique works with adults of all genders and from all walks of life. She enjoys helping women prosper, and reducing the stigma around men seeking professional psychological support.
She commonly supports adults struggling with: Trauma, Eating Disorders, Body Dissatisfaction, Anxiety, Assertiveness, Self-Esteem, Perfectionism, Stress, Relationships, Parenting, Grief & Loss, Boundaries, and Life Changes.
Monique considers being a Psychologist and servicing people to be the greatest privilege, and working individually with people to change their lives for the better is part of her most rewarding work. If you are ready to commit – and really commit – Monique is ready to help, and she cannot wait to hear your story.
