Stephanie Morse

About Stephanie

Stephanie (she/her) is a clinical psychologist with a passion for working with children, adolescents, and families to improve anxiety, behaviour, communication, and attachment.  She has a warm, enthusiastic, and empathetic approach to engage with clients, and works with clients from 7 years old all the way up to adulthood.  She has a particular interest in working with Autistic and ADHDer individuals across the lifespan to help explore their neurotype and understand their strengths.  Stephanie is passionate about connecting with children and families and believes that working holistically with the family system is essential to creating lasting positive outcomes for child clients.  She works from a neurodiversity-affirming, gender identity and sexuality-affirming, and strengths-based framework.

Stephanie is trained in evidence-based practices such as Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) including DNA-V, as well as incorporating skills from other approaches such as DBT.  She has also trained in a variety of parent-focused techniques, including emotion coaching through Tuning into Kids, attachment styles through Circle of Security, and parent-led change for challenging behaviour and emotion dysregulation.  Stephanie has a strong background in improving communication and problem solving between parents and children using Collaborative and Proactive Solutions (CPS); she delivered this treatment as part of a randomised controlled trial for the Kidman Centre’s Side by Side research program and continued providing CPS privately under the supervision of certified CPS providers at the Kidman Centre.

Stephanie also provides psychological and cognitive assessments to help clients better understand their brain style and provide recommendations for supports.  She is trained in a variety of evidence-based assessment tools and cognitive assessments and works flexibly with her clients to determine a selection that will best help to formulate the client’s presentation.  She believes that assessments are an opportunity to better understand one’s own brain style, strengths, and identity, and provides comprehensive reports and a feedback session to help to contextualise the findings.

Stephanie is also a board-approved supervisor.  Stephanie completed a Bachelor of Arts (Advanced) (Honours) in Ancient History, before completing a Graduate Diploma in Psychology and Honours in Psychology from the University of Sydney. She continued her development as a psychologist through the Master of Clinical Psychology at the University of Technology, Sydney, followed by her registrar program.

Outside of psychology, you will often find Stephanie birdwatching, playing video games, watching movies, reading fantasy novels, or playing Dungeons and Dragons.  Often these passions provide a point of connection with many of her clients.