Anna Dedousis-Wallace
BA, BSc, DipEd, PGDip, MPsych (Clinical), MAPS, MACPA
Anna has extensive experience working with adolescents, their parents and teachers, both on the front line as a high school teacher in outback and metropolitan areas of Australia, and in her roles as a clinical psychologist at The Kidman Centre and in private practice. She specialises in the treatment of disruptive behaviour disorders, psychotic disorders, depression and anxiety. Anna has trained over 1,000 teachers on how to identify and respond to indirect bullying in schools. She also designs and delivers training seminars for health professionals, students, teachers and the general community on a range of mental health topics.
Dr Sophia Drysdale
BSc(Hons), DClinPsych, PhD
Sophia is driven by an insatiable curiosity to find innovative ways of working with children and adolescents where traditional approaches prove ineffective. She has a background in child and family community mental health, and draws on a range of evidence-based psychological approaches in her practice, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Schema Therapy, and Mindfulness based approaches. Sophia's work includes travelling to rural and regional areas across NSW to train educators and school counsellors in the CPS framework.
Sean Rom
Sean works with children, young adults and families in community mental health and in his role at the Kidman centre. He is passionate about the provision of early intervention for mental health challenges and has previously worked as a researcher assessing digital therapies as treatments for adults and young people with eating disorders. Sean works with a range of difficulties including anxiety and mood disorders, trauma, neurodevelopmental differences (including ADHD and autism), eating disorders, obsessive–compulsive disorder, and functional neurological symptoms. His approach is developmentally informed, collaborative, and evidence based, drawing on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Dialectical Behavioural Therapy. Sean is also a provider of Collaborative Proactive Solutions and enjoys working alongside families using strengths-based approaches.