Samara Smith

Qualifications / Professional Associations:

• Bachelor of Science in Psychology (Hons)

• Master of Professional Psychology

• Registered Psychologist

Summary Professional Experience:

Samara is a psychologist with experience supporting adults and children living with mental illness, developmental disabilities and/or complex developmental trauma.  

Samara is proficient in completing emotional wellbeing, cognitive and adaptive functioning assessment with adults and children utilising standardised and dynamic assessments. 

Samara is focused on providing person-centred and trauma informed support, through behaviour support, clinical support and individual psychotherapy utilising modalities including, positive behaviour support, DBT, CBT, ACT, mindfulness and neurosequential approaches.

Samara is passionate about providing support to those how have lived through adverse experiences and the neurodevelopmental impacts of trauma. Samara is currently strengthening her skills in Neurosequential Model of Therapeptuics (NMT).