Location: Beecroft

Rebecca Wheeler
Clinical Psychologist
BA. Ma. (Psych) MAPS

Rebecca is a clinical psychologist with 20-years experience in therapy with clients and the principal psychologist of RWA Psychology – Family Matters. She has a special interest in supporting parents with their experiences of parenting – from contemplating conception, pregnancy & birth through to adjusting to both the joys and demands of parenting. Rebecca works with parents who simply need support during this period as well as those with stronger mental health difficulties such as postnatal depression and anxiety. Clients value the safe and nurturing environment she provides for them to to deepen their understanding of their emotional issues and develop the skills needed to move forward.

Assisting parents in establishing secure and resilient relationships with their children, allowing them to experience the joys of parenting while navigating the inevitable challenges it can bring is critical to how Rebecca works with her clients.  Rebecca has a special interest in building parenting skills in mindful and reflective parenting. She works from an attachment based perspective with parents and children.

Rebecca has worked with many parents who have experienced loss during the pregnancy or postpartum period. Providing compassion, understanding and space to explore their grief is critical to this work as well as assisting parents to find a way to live with their loss.

Rebecca works closely with general practitioners, obstetricians and psychiatrists allowing for essential collaborative care.

Parents are welcome to bring their babies to session.

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Rowena Hong
Registered Psychologist
BA, MA (Psych.), MAPS

Rowena is a Registered Psychologist who has been working in child, family and adult health services for over 20 years.

She has comprehensive experience in perinatal mental health assisting parents prepare for and adjust to the challenges of parenthood, treating perinatal stress, anxiety and depression, supporting parents with perinatal loss and birth trauma, and enhancing the parent-infant relationship.

Rowena uses evidence-based interventions that are attachment focused, trauma informed and culturally sensitive, in collaboration with her clients’ identified needs and goals. Besides working with families, Rowena also enjoys working with individuals who present with stress, anxiety, depression, grief and loss, trauma, disordered eating, and self-esteem issues. Rowena is a credentialed eating disorder clinician with the Australia New Zealand Academy for Eating Disorders.

Prior to her role at RWA Psychology, Rowena worked at Tresillian Family Care Centres, an early parenting service, where she facilitated a broad range of parenting programs such as parent-infant interaction, postnatal depression and anxiety, Circle of Security Parenting, and meditation sessions. She is also an accredited Triple P facilitator.

Rowena uses various treatment modalities including Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Schema Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.

Rowena is also a mother of two teenagers and a moodle, and in her free time enjoys gardening, spending time in nature, and catching up with friends.

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