Clinical Psychologist
Sophie White
Dr Sophie White is a clinical psychologist with doctoral-level training. She completed a psychology bachelor’s degree (with honours) at Monash University followed by a doctorate in clinical psychology at Deakin University. She has practiced in both public and private settings, working with a diverse range clients and mental health challenges. Sophie has undertaken further training in a range of therapeutic modalities, including Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Schema Therapy, and EMDR. She is credentialed in eating disorder mental health treatment through the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Eating Disorders (ANZAED).
Sophie has a collaborative and approachable style that balances compassionate acceptance with therapeutic challenge. Sophie flexibly adapts and integrates evidence-based therapeutic techniques to meet individual client needs, including those relating to cultural, sexual, and gender identities and neurotypes. She has a special interest in working with people who are experiencing mental health challenges during the perinatal period. Sophie has particular experience working with people with eating disorders and disordered eating, and she is interested in the intersection between she is interested in the intersection between body image and the transition into pregnancy and/or parenthood. Sophie also has skills working with postpartum psychosis, severe mood episodes, and OCD.
Qualifications
Doctorate of Clinical Psychology · Deakin University · 2022; Bachelor's of Psychology (honours) · Monash University · 2015
Availability
- Monday
Areas I work in
- ADHD
- Adjustment Difficulties and Life Transitions
- Alcohol and Other Drug Concerns
- Anger Management
- Anxiety Disorders
- Attachment and Family Dynamics
- Autism
- Bipolar Disorder
- Body Image and Body Dysmorphia
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Burnout
- Career Concerns
- Chronic Pain and Pain Management
- Communication Difficulties
- Confidence
- Depression and Low Mood
- Disability
- Domestic and Family Violence
- Eating and Feeding Disorders
- Emotional Regulation
- Family Difficulties
- Fertility
- Financial Stress
- Gender and Sexual Identity
- Grief and Bereavement
- Health and Lifestyle
- Infant Sleep
- LGBTQIA+ Concerns
- Loneliness
- Meaning and Values
- Mood Disorders
- Narcissism
- Neurodivergence
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Panic Attacks
- Parenting and New-Parent Support
- Perfectionism
- Performance
- Perinatal and Postnatal Mental Health
- Personality Disorders
- Phobias
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Complex PTSD
- Pregnancy
- Psychosis
- Relationship Difficulties
- Resilience and Psychological Flexibility
- Risky Behaviours
- Self-Development
- Self-Esteem
- Separation
- Sexual Abuse
- Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Sexual Difficulties
- Sleep and Insomnia
- Social Anxiety
- Stress Management
- Trauma
- Women's Health
- Workplace Relations
- Workplace Stress
Therapeutic modalities
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Schema Therapy
- Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (TF-CBT)