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Samira Khan

Samira is an experienced Clinical Psychologist who conducts assessment and intervention for a variety of presentations including mood disorders, anxiety disorders, self-esteem issues, attachment and interpersonal difficulties, emotional dysregulation, grief, and trauma.

Her personal style is friendly, warm, and caring. To help foster a meaningful therapeutic relationship, Samira works with her clients from the outset to identify clear therapy goals, discuss treatment plans, review progress and flexibly readjust strategies when needed.

Samira has completed advanced level training in both Schema Therapy and Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, which allows her to tailor therapy plans to each individual client. Outside of work, she loves spending time with family and friends and keeping them entertained with real-life stories, fascinating facts, and lots of laughter.

Samira can also speak fluent Bengali.

Mariam Mourtada

Mariam is a dedicated psychologist who has over 10 years of experience working with children, adolescents, and young adults in private practice. Mariam is bilingual, fluent in both English and Arabic. She strives to adopt a culturally sensitive and effective treatment tailored to individuals’ needs.

Mariam has a passion for understanding and addressing anxiety, PTSD, complex trauma, challenging behaviors, and interpersonal difficulties. She employs a wide range of therapeutic modalities, such as Schema Therapy, Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).

Mariam adopts a warm, relaxed, client-centered approach to therapy. She is committed to supporting clients, helping them navigate through various mental health challenges, and empowering them to lead fulfilling lives.

Mostafa Elgashingi

Mostafa is an experienced psychologist and board-approved supervisor. He has significant expertise in treating and working with post-traumatic stress disorder, drug and alcohol issues, depression, anxiety, acute psychosis, personality disorders, youth & gang-related issues, anger management, at-risk behaviour, and crisis management.

Mostafa is personable in his interactions with clients, incorporating humour into his therapeutic approach. He fosters a safe, comfortable and relatable atmosphere for clients to engage in meaningful dialogue and growth.

Mostafa is bilingual and can speak Arabic.

Neil McDonald

Neil McDonald is a Psychologist with over 20 years of experience. He has worked in several areas with disadvantaged groups, long-term unemployed clients, workers’ compensation, those with an intellectual and mental illness, rehab services and psychology services for injured workers, counselling for Tafe and Universities, and most recently working with NDIS participants.

Neil accepts the following cases:

Private and Private Health Insurance
Bulk-billing through Mental Health Care Plan (MHCP)
Chronic Disease Management Plan (formerly EPC)
National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
Work-Related Injury (Work Cover)
Motor Vehicle Accidents (CTP)
Department of Veterinary Care (DVA)
Home Care Packages

His areas of treatment include:

Depression / Anxiety / Panic attacks
Relationship Counselling (individual and couples)
Workshops on Depression and Anxiety
Depression in those with a chronic illness
Anger Management
Trauma
Disabilities and neurodiversity
Workers’ Compensation and Phobias

Jason Abbas Aramideh

Jason is a Behaviour Support Practitioner currently completing his Ph.D. in neurosciences in the School of Medicine at the University of Sydney. Jason’s research focuses on synaptic plasticity following nerve axotomy. Jason has experience across a variety of age groups and diagnoses as a Behavioural Practitioner, especially Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and Intellectual Disability (ID).

Jason has a particular interest in working with Culturally & Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities.

Jason is able to speak in Persian (Farsi) and can understand Arabic and Urdu.

Ayesha Sadozai

Ayesha Sadozai is an experienced paediatric clinical psychologist with a special interest in assessment and disability.

Ayesha has worked in various teams within NSW Health, these include the Child and Family Team in South Western Sydney and the Diagnostic Service in Illawarra and Shoalhaven. She is currently working with children with complex motor disorders and brain injury in NSW Health. She is keen to bridge the gap between research and evidence based practice with clinical practice.

Ayesha has experience in assessment and intervention with children with a range of behavioural challenges as well as a range of neurodevelopmental conditions, such as:
– autism
– ADHD
– selective mutism
– intellectual disability
– anxiety
– complex trauma

Ayesha is completing her PhD on neurodevelopmental conditions and their relationship to executive functioning in the paediatric population. Her project aims to identify distinct cognitive markers of executive dysfunction in ADHD, autism, specific learning disorder and tourette’s syndrome in children. Her PhD will allow for increased understanding on how early interventions can be tailored to specific developmental disorders in children, as well as those children that present with comorbidities. It will also enhance understanding on how specific cognitive functions are impacted.

Ayesha is bilingual and is fluent in speaking Urdu.

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