Aoibheann McCarthy

Aoibheann is a warm and genuine Educational and Developmental Psychologist who is passionate about working with children, adolescents, and families to understand and support their emotional wellbeing. Aoibheann has 15 years experience working with clients across the life span and has recently completed a Masters of Clinical Psychology degree at Curtin University.

Aoibheann has worked in clinical and community mental health settings across the public and private sectors, and has extensive experience working with children, adolescents and families in the school setting. She is highly knowledgeable in assisting students with additional needs and disabilities to access reasonable accommodations to support their learning and emotional wellbeing.

Known for her approachable, down to earth nature, Aoibheann provides a safe, trusting and respectful space for clients to speak openly about their current difficulties and goals for therapy. They say it takes a village to raise a child, and as such, Aoibheann values the importance of working collaboratively to empower children and families with practical coping strategies to navigate life’s challenges and harness their strengths to achieve their goals and thrive. She enjoys working with a range of presenting concerns, including anxiety, depression, emotional regulation and behavioural difficulties, school refusal, learning difficulties, ADHD, social interactions, family and parenting stress, and life transitions. Aoibheann tailors her therapeutic approach to her client’s needs and presentation, utilising a variety of evidence-based interventions such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Schema Therapy, and Interpersonal Therapy.

Aoibheann is experienced in providing comprehensive psychoeducational and diagnostic assessments to profile areas of strength and identify possible learning difficulties, including Specific Learning Disorders, Developmental Disorders, Gifted and Talented, and ADHD. She is also well versed in completing assessments to support applications to SCSA (School Curriculum Standards Authority) for Special Exam Arrangements.

Shani Webb

We are delighted to introduce Shani Webb, a registered Psychologist, to the Excelsis Team. Shani brings a wealth of experience and a heartfelt passion for working with children, adolescents, parents, and families to enhance emotional well-being and achieve therapeutic goals. Her approach is centred on building strong, collaborative relationships through her warm, caring, and non-judgmental demeanour.

Shani had a notable career in education, working extensively as a teacher. This role provided her with profound insights and hands-on experience with young people, particularly in educational settings. Shani works closely with her young clients and their families as well as their schools to support their holistic wellbeing. Shani's experience also extends to providing behaviour support for children, adolescents, and adults with challenging behaviours through the NDIS. Her therapeutic techniques are rooted in evidence-based interventions such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Family Systems work, mindfulness, and trauma-informed approaches.

Shani’s clinical focus includes working with children and adolescents between the ages of 2 to 18 years, and she is particularly interested in addressing behavioural challenges, emotional and behavioural regulation, depression, anxiety, school refusal, sleep difficulties, and academic challenges. Her assessment interests cover a range of areas including ADHD/ADD, behavioural concerns, educational concerns/developmental delays, as well as assessments for gifted and talented individuals, school readiness, and specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalculia.

In therapy, Shani utilises a diverse array of approaches, including narrative therapy, play-based therapies, CBT, and skills building, ensuring a tailored and responsive treatment plan for each client. Shani’s extensive background in education and psychology greatly benefit our clients and enhance our team’s ability to meet diverse needs.

Rahela Milosevski

We are privileged to have Rahela as part of the Excelsis Team. Rahela is an experienced psychologist with a warm and caring nature. Her compassionate and holistic approach to therapy provides a safe space for individuals to explore their thoughts, feelings, and experiences, helping them overcome life obstacles and embark on a journey of self-discovery and growth.

Rahela has extensive experience working with children and adolescents, utilising evidence-based therapeutic techniques such as Play Therapy, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT). These techniques help young clients express their emotions, build resilience, and develop healthy coping skills. Rahela customises these therapeutic approaches to suit each individual’s unique needs and aspirations, emphasizing collaborative engagement to uncover insights and foster lasting change.

Rahela also has significant experience working with clients in NDIS settings, particularly children, adolescents, and adults with Autism, ADHD/ADD, and Intellectual Disabilities. She provides neuro-affirming practice and is dedicated to supporting the mental and emotional well-being of her clients. Rahela's areas of interest include Anxiety (social anxiety, separation anxiety, panic), ADHD/ADD, Autism, Depression, School Refusal, Sleep Difficulties, Parenting Stress, Emotional and Behavioural Regulation, and Social Challenges.

Rahela provides comprehensive diagnostic assessment services to accurately identify various psychological conditions. Her assessments help to inform individualised treatment plans and support clients' unique needs.

Whether addressing behavioural issues, anxiety, or depression, Rahela is committed to enhancing the mental and emotional well-being of young individuals and families.

Hendrik Uys

We are grateful to have Hendrik join the Excelsis Team. Hendrik is a qualified Counselling Psychologist with a Masters degree in Counselling Psychology. He has many years of experience working with young people and their families. He values authenticity, growth, creativity and connection within a therapeutic process based on evidence based approaches. He has practiced as a psychologist since 2011 within private practice and school contexts and appreciates the opportunity to be part of others’ journeys and to grow with his clients.

Hendrik works with children and adolescents between the ages of 2 to 18 years, as well as parents and adult clients. He is passionate about working with children and their families to support emotional well-being, optimise overall functioning and work towards their therapeutic goals. Hendrik’s therapeutic areas of interest include anxiety (including generalised anxiety, perfectionism, separation anxiety, selective mutism, panic, panic attacks and social anxiety), depression and low mood, school refusal, sleep difficulties, depression, and parenting stress, as well as emotion regulation, anger, behavioural, social and learning difficulties. He is skilled in diagnostic assessments, incl. ADHD, Developmental Disorders, Specific Learning Disorders, Gifted & Talented, School Readiness, and Neuro-psychological assessments.

Hendrik believes “If we look back we can see challenges that we overcame, we can see how we have grown and this helps us connect to the strength and resilience that we have inside of us. There are times in life that we need help with the process of overcoming these challenges and integrating the growth.” Hendrik is a counselling psychologist that views the problem as the problem; the person is not the problem. A period or moment of crisis where the challenges exist is an opportunity to learn and to grow. Children, adolescents and families are quite creative in finding ways to cope with challenges, but sometimes these ways even though it protects them is not the best way of dealing with the challenge.

Holly Wentworth

We are fortunate to have Holly on the Excelsis Team. Holly holds a Bachelor of Arts (Psychology), Grad Cert (Education), and Grad Dip (Psychology). Holly is a registered psychologist with the Psychology Board of Australia.

Holly works with children and adolescents between the ages of 2 to 18 years, parents and adult clients. She has a particular interest in Anxiety (social anxiety, separation anxiety, panic), OCD, ADHD/ADD, Depression, School Refusal, Sleep Difficulties, Parenting Stress, Emotional and Behavioural Regulation, Social and Learning Difficulties. Her area of assessment interests include ADHD/ADD, Behavioural concerns, Educational concerns / Developmental Delays, Gifted and Talented, School Readiness and Specific Learning Difficulties (known as dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia).

Holly has over 10 years’ experience working with adolescents and families within educational, therapeutic and clinical settings. Her career has involved facilitating support groups, delivering educational wellbeing programs and providing individual intervention and counselling that aims to build emotional resilience, enhance positive coping strategies and support overall psychosocial wellbeing of clients. Holly is passionate about working with at-risk youth to overcome emotional, behavioural and psychological barriers to academic and/or personal aspirations. Her collaborative approach includes identifying the interpersonal and intrapersonal aspects of the individual’s development and liaising with schools and parents to ensure intervention is informed and tailored to the client’s needs.

Her approach to achieving therapeutic outcomes includes providing evidence-based interventions such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Schema Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Motivational Interviewing. Holly’s therapeutic areas of interest include anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, as well as learning and behavioural issues.

Holly endeavours to support clients through a person-centred and creative approach that not only seeks to enhance the individual’s natural ability, but also motivates her clients to persevere through difficulties. She provides high quality, evidence-based exceptional care to all her clients, and tailors her approach to meet the needs of her clients.

Cameron Macormic

Cameron is an valuable addition to the Excelsis Team. Cameron holds a Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) and joined the team at Excelsis in 2024. He is working towards full registration as a psychologist at Excelsis Psychology under the mentorship of the Principal Psychologist, Ms Amanda Scott.

With a background in chaplaincy and counselling, working with adult and adolescent clients with complex needs. Cameron's clients describe him as understanding and easy to talk to. Cameron strives to bring warmth and genuineness alongside expertise to his work with Excelsis, adopting a values-driven and adaptive approach to therapy.

Cameron brings warmth, acceptance and curiosity to the therapy and assessment space, in order to create safe and trusting therapeutic relationships with her clients. This forms a strong base, for supporting clients to explore their current concerns, reduce distress, and gain insight into the patterns of thinking, behaving and relating which keep them stuck.  

Cameron strives to offer evidence-based insights and tools that each client can implement for life. Cameron is experienced with Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Schema Therapy, Solutions Focused Therapy and Motivational Interviewing, and in helping clients navigate concerns such as depression, anxiety, relationships, post-traumatic stress, grief and loss, behavioural concerns, ADHD/executive functioning, and reflecting and moving towards life goals.

With lived experience of neurodiversity, Cameron is empathic towards the educational and behavioural needs that we have in the modern world. Cameron is looking forward to offering psychological assessments for educational concerns, behavioural concerns, ADHD, neurodiversity, and specific learning difficulties in the near future -watch this space!

Cameron is currently accepting clients for child, adolescent and adult therapy, as well as child/ adolescent ASD, ADHD and SLD assessments. 

Dianna Nguyen

We are fortunate to have Dianna, a registered Psychologist, on the Excelsis Team. She comes with a wealth of assessment experience. Dianna has a background in EAP counselling, coaching, and facilitating psychoeducation workshops across diverse settings including the mining sector and local government. She provides assessment services to children, adolescents, and adults to assist in identifying strengths and areas of growth. Her assessments are thorough and comprehensive -offering individuals and their families a deeper understanding about their challenges, and offering psychoeducation and intervention which will enable them to thrive in their daily functioning.

She is passionate about supporting young people to achieve academic success but more importantly to achieve psychological health, including social and emotional wellbeing.

Her area of assessment interests includes ADHD/ADD, Behavioural concerns, Educational concerns / Developmental Delays, Gifted and Talented, School Readiness and Specific Learning Difficulties (known as dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia). 

Candice Craig

We are privileged to have Candice on our team. She is a warm and caring clinician with a Master's degree in Psychology, and is a registered psychologist. Candice provides psychological counseling to children, adolescents, and their families, employing a client-centered framework that tailors interventions to meet the unique needs of each individual.

Candice integrates techniques from various therapeutic approaches, including Attachment-Based Therapy, Play Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, mindfulness, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Interpersonal Process Therapy, Attuned Parenting, and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Her therapeutic areas of interest encompass anxiety (including generalized anxiety, social anxiety, and separation anxiety), depression, anger, emotion regulation, behavioural difficulties, sleep issues, and social challenges. Additionally, Candice is passionate about addressing issues that arise during the perinatal period, such as preparing for parenthood, adjusting to parenthood, and enhancing bonding and attachment. Candice has a specific interest in SLD, ADHD and ASD assessments.

Known for her playful, curious, and collaborative approach, Candice is dedicated to fostering a supportive and effective therapeutic environment for her clients.