Melanie Brooks
Graduate Diploma of Psychological Sciences, Bond University. Registered Psychologist (AHPRA), SIRA & WorkSafe Victoria accredited.
With an affirming and empathetic approach, Melanie strives to provide a space for clients to increase a connection to self, others and their inner experience.
Approach
Working with a range of individuals and presentations, Melanie’s warm and attentive nature and relational approach is especially suited to clients who struggle to develop safety in relationships. Melanie takes a trauma‑informed, evidence‑based and holistic approach to treatment.
With reflective inquiry, Melanie works to gently allow clients to uncover their inner experience and develop increased self‑understanding. Through this internally derived insight, clients often experience enhanced congruence and empowerment toward change, goals or recovery.
Developing individualised treatment, Melanie often integrates approaches such as CBT, ACT, psychodynamic perspectives, somatic therapy, parts work and emotion focused therapy. She also has a passion for yoga and nature‑based therapies and relishes the appropriate integration of these within treatment, and encourages the incorporation of clients’ spiritual, faith or belief systems into treatment.
Special interest
Workplace injury
Treatment of workplace compensable injuries, including PTSD, C‑PTSD, adjustment disorder, anxiety, depression and burnout.
Pain & physical injury
Helping clients improve their relationship to pain and address the emotions and cognitions associated with changes in physical ability.
Areas of focus
PTSD · C‑PTSD & complex trauma · Adjustment disorder · Anxiety · Depression · Burnout · Grief · Pain management · Interpersonal issues
Who I work with
Clients aged 16 and up, including people navigating workplace injury, rehabilitation and the return‑to‑work process, as well as general private practice clients.
Experience
Melanie’s psychological treatment experience follows three years providing occupational rehabilitation case management to injured persons. As such, she has a profound understanding of the complexities and secondary psychological impact often experienced by individuals under the scheme, and is committed to ensuring clients feel supported and empowered while rehabilitating and navigating the return to work process.
Melanie also has experience in general private practice, providing treatment for a range of presentations including anxiety, depression, grief, PTSD, complex trauma and interpersonal issues.
Qualifications
- Graduate Diploma of Psychological Sciences — Bond University
- Undergraduate Psychology — Swinburne University, Melbourne
- Two‑year psychology internship
- Registered Psychologist — AHPRA
- SIRA accredited · WorkSafe Victoria accredited
Rebates
- Registered with Medicare and can provide services under some NDIS plans.
- SIRA — Workers Compensation