Belinda is a warm and empathic clinical psychologist with extensive experience working with infants, young children and their parents/caregivers. Belinda also works with teens, young adults, and expectant parents.
Meet Dr Belinda Keenan
Belinda takes a relational approach, valuing the parent-child connection as central to healing and holds the parent as expert in their child. There is a focus on nurturing parent-child attachment, and supporting parents to identify and meet the needs of their young person. Belinda’s approach is grounded in attachment, trauma-informed, and draws from a range of evidence-based therapies.
Work with Belinda will take a collaborative approach, thinking together to better understand the factors that may underlie the challenges and distress you are facing in yourselves or your young person. Working towards a shared understanding of the difficulties at hand, Belinda works with you to develop a clear plan for the work in therapy, where together you are able to track and reflect on progress and ensure therapy is helpful and purposeful.
Belinda brings wide-ranging experience working within tertiary mental health, non-for-profit, and private practice settings.
Qualifications
- Doctor of Psychology (Clinical Psychology)
- Bachelor of Behavioural Neuroscience (Psychology Honours)
- Full registration with AHPRA as a Clinical Psychologist (Clinical Endorsement)
- Board approved supervisor with AHPRA
- Australian Association of Infant Mental Health (AAIMH) member
Areas of Interest
- Attachment and bonding in the early years, and across the lifespan
- Infant mental health, early parenthood, and expectant parents
- Developmental Trauma, Complex PTSD
- Emotional and relational difficulties of childhood, adolescents and young adulthood
Therapeutic Approaches
- Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP)
- Mentalisation Based Training (MBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- And informed by principles of attachment theory, family systems theory, trauma-informed practice, and circle of security concepts
Availability
Thursdays and Fridays – in person.
Contact
E-mail: belinda@woodwalk.com.au
Phone: 0469 807 316
Child & Adolescent Clinical Psychologist