Kaylee Spiller
Clinical Psychology Registrar
“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” - Carl G. Jung
KAYLEE IS ON MATERNITY LEAVE
No return to work date yet
Areas of interest
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Depression
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Anxiety
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Difficulty regulating emotions
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Relationship and interpersonal difficulties
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Coping mechanisms and behaviours that are hard to change or resist, but have negative short and long term consequences, such as avoidance, reassurance seeking, people pleasing, anger, emotional suppression, self-soothing behaviours
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Perfectionism/high standards and related coping mechanisms
I am a registered psychologist, which means I have obtained qualifications and training in helping people with mental health problems, stress, and quality of life. ​​I take time to understand each person's life and circumstances, and provide assistance using the tools and strategies I have learned and developed over my training and years experience of working as a psychologist. ​​I am currently furthering my training by undertaking a Master of Clinical Psychology. ​​I regularly undertake supervision and professional development to keep up-to-date with psychological interventions for mental health problems.
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I take a gentle and caring approach, taking time to listen to your concerns, and explore your history, relationships and interests. ​I enjoy working collaboratively with my clients to develop strategies to help reduce your distress, drawing from CBT, DBT and ACT models. ​I am also passionate about helping clients navigate difficulties with school, university or work stress.
Supporting Your Own Growth: How You Can Help Make Therapy Successful
Therapy is most effective when it's a collaborative effort. Here are a few ways you can actively support your own healing and make the most of our time together:
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Attend Regularly
Consistency builds momentum and helps us maintain focus on your goals. If life gets in the way, we’ll work together to stay on track. -
Be Willing to Share and Collaborate
Talking about your current concerns and being open to different ways of addressing them helps keep our work grounded and responsive to what you’re going through right now. -
Be Open to New Ways of Thinking and Doing
Growth often involves stepping outside of familiar habits. Being willing to consider new perspectives or try different approaches can lead to meaningful change.
Qualifications
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Bachelor of Psychological Science with Honours
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Master of Professional Psychology
Let's get to know Kaylee
Q. What is one of your favourite psychology approaches and why?
A. I think I resonate most with behavioural approaches. What we do makes a huge impact on how we feel, whether that be the need to do more things we enjoy or to slow down. It is often just starting that is hard.
Q. What drew you to a career as a psychologist?
A. I have always been interested in human behaviour, and why we act and feel the way we do.
Q. Do you use psychology strategies in your everyday life?
A. Most definitely! I think we all have strategies that we use, we may just not realise why. For me it could be listening to my favourite music and singing along as I know it helps regulate my emotions, making plans to go for a walk with family or friends to increase connection, or taking some deep breaths and grounding myself when feeling overwhelmed.
Q. Favourite food?
A. I cannot go past some pizza.
Q. Do you have any pets?
A. I have a gorgeous rescue dog named Smudges, and a guinea pig named Apollo.
Q. What do you like to do in your spare time?
A. I love hanging out with my family and other favourite people, playing board games or DnD, and going for walks.