Kerrianne Abbott is an experienced Psychologist with over 23 years in the field. She has been in private practice for over 19 years. Kerrianne holds a Bachelor of Science from the Australian National University (majoring in Psychology), a Master of Arts from the University of Western Sydney (majoring in Sport Psychology) and a Master of Psychology also from the University of Western Sydney (specialising in Counselling and Family Therapy).

Kerrianne’s first specialisation was in sport psychology, which led to significant work with injured athletes, and then into treatment and management of injured workers in the worker’s compensation system. This client group has become a major focus of her clinical practice and has led to extensive training in the area of trauma, pain management and adjustment to injury issues.

For the past 15 years Kerrianne has worked in a clinical setting with both general mental health patients, and those referred specifically for the psychological management of pain and trauma associated with injury, accident, illness, and childhood issues.

Kerrianne engages in extensive professional development training each year to stay up to date with the current research and treatment practices for trauma, chronic pain, and adjustment to injury issues.

Kerrianne is a member of the Australian Psychological Society (APS), and also the Counselling College of the APS. In addition, Kerrianne holds a Health Coaching Certificate from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition. She is recognised and registered as a Medicare provider for psychological services.

Kerrianne’s orientation to counselling and psychological intervention has been largely Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, Brief Solution Focused Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Family Therapy and Emotional Release Therapy (Sandplay Therapy). However, Kerrianne now works predominately from an EMDR model (further information about this therapy can be found here).