Therapy Services
Meet Your Psychologist
Elise Raymond
Elise is a registered psychologist with extensive postgraduate training and experience across private practice, hospital and community settings. She holds a Master of Clinical Psychology and Bachelor of Psychology (Honours), and continues to undertake advanced professional training in perinatal assessment and care.
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Her additional training spans infant development, attachment and evidence-based parenting interventions. Elise is trained in Newborn Behavioral Observations (NBO), a registered Circle of Security Parenting facilitator, and an accredited Triple P practitioner across Standard, Group, Teen and Fear-Less programs.
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Elise is a member of the Australian Association of Psychologists Inc (AAPi), Australian Association for Infant Mental Health (AAIMH), and Healthy Attachment Australia and New Zealand, and an Associate Member of the Australian Clinical Psychology Association (ACPA).
Practice Areas
Focus Areas
and Expertise
Transition to Parenthood
Pregnancy and Birth
Becoming a parent can bring enormous change to your identity, relationships, routines and sense of yourself. Therapy can provide space to make sense of this transition, adjust to new roles and expectations, and find your footing as a parent.
Pregnancy and birth can bring a complicated mix of emotions, and the experience doesn’t always unfold as hoped or expected. Support may include anxiety during pregnancy, preparing psychologically for birth and parenthood, difficult or traumatic birth experiences, and adjustment following birth.
Understanding Your Newborn
Looking After Yourself as a Parent
Newborns communicate long before they have words. Drawing on training in Newborn Behavioral Observations (NBO) and infant mental health, we can explore your baby’s individual cues, capacities and ways of communicating, helping you get to know the little person in front of you and build confidence in responding to their needs.
Caring for someone else can make it surprisingly easy to disappear from your own identity. Therapy can support you with anxiety, low mood, overwhelm, stress, guilt, perfectionism and the emotional load of parenting, while making room for your own needs, relationships and wellbeing.
Fees and Rebates
Standard Consultation (50 minutes)
Medicare Rebate (with a valid GP referral)
Out of Pocket
Our Philosophy
Our mission is to offer caregivers the kind of support we’d want for our own families: non-judgemental, practical, and tailored to the realities of modern parenting.