About us
Kare Psychology is a private psychology practice with a duty on providing a high quality service for all clients. Kare Psychology provides counselling, treatment and assessments to a wide-variety of individuals throughout Melbourne.
Kare Psychology has been operating as a Group Private Practice since 2015, providing counselling and mental health assessments to our community. Kare Psychology has a shared VISION: to provide an evidence-based, best-practice psychological service to children, adolescents, adults and families within a professional, caring and welcoming environment. It is this vision that serves as the foundation for our daily practice, enabling us to remain steadfastly focused on providing mental health care that is streamline, accessible, affordable, and reliable. We ensure this vision and mission is shared by our clinicians and supporting staff to guarantee a consistent and coherent approach that adds value to the experience of our clients while enhancing their overall functioning.
Core Values
- Deliver Through Service
- Drive change
- Pursue growth and learning
- Build Open and Honest Relationships with partners, referrers and clients
- Build a Positive and Empathic team
- Do More with less
- Embrace, Empower and Lead
- Meaningful practice for equal outcomes
- Bottom Up (Marries Top Down)
At Kare Psychology we:
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– strive to provide a calm and secure therapy environment to reduce the level of distress client’s often report feeling when seeing a psychologist. We achieve this through the use of specially designed therapy rooms and match
– are committed to helping people improve their mental health and well-being, enhancing their relationships, improving daily functioning, and improving learning outcomes for children and adolescents.
MARIA KAREFILAKIS
Clinic Director
Maria Karefilakis, our clinic Director and principal psychologist has a Masters in Educational and Developmental Psychology. Maria has extensive experience working in private practice with children, adolescents and adults presenting with a range of psychological issues including depression, anxiety, behavioural difficulties, trauma and developmental and learning disorders.
EXPERIENCE & SPECIAL INTERESTS
Maria had experience in assessing and treating the following conditions;
Academic and learning difficulties
Behavioural difficulties
Mood difficulties ( depression, bipolar disorder)
Anxiety Disorders
Parenting (psychoeducation, developing strategies)
Trauma and Abuse
Developmental Disorder
Pain Management (WorkCover)
Maria has a special interest working with anxiety disorders, pain management, developmental disorders and the elderly.
Maria is a member of the national board of the Australian Psychological Society.
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Maria also provides psychological services within the primary and secondary educational setting, particularly in various assessments – including cognitive, psychoeducational and achievement – and therapy.
Maria adopts a warm and client-centred approach when working with her clients. She aims to consider the person she is working with, within the context of their overall needs and lives.
Jamie Maserow
PSYCHOLOGIST
Jamie is a warm and caring general practitioner with a Masters in Professional Psychology. She is a Member of the Australian Psychological Society and has had experience working with children, adolescents and adults in non-for profit organizations as well as in school settings.
EXPERIENCE & SPECIAL INTERESTS
Jamie has worked with a diverse range of presenting issues such as anxiety, depression, addiction, grief and loss. In particular, she has a special interest in the well-being and development of young people in our community.
She enjoys conducting educational and behavioral assessments including ADHD, Dyslexia, Autism Spectrum Disorder and other learning issues.
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Jamie uses a strength based, holistic approach with all clients and consistently aims to create a safe and nurturing therapeutic environment. She utilizes evidence-based psychological therapies such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Mindfulness in order to achieve and maintain positive outcomes
SIMONE GINDIDIS
PSYCHOLOGIST
Simone is a registered psychologist and PhD Candidate in Educational and Developmental psychology. Simone’s research investigates the experience of psychologists and adolescents using apps in therapy. A former Apple employee trained in the technical support of devices and software as well as in the facilitation of individual and group training.
EXPERIENCE & SPECIAL INTERESTS
Simone has considerable experience working with primary and secondary schools and is trained in Cross-Battery Assessment of cognitive and academic abilities.
Simone’s interests include:
• Autism Spectrum disorder
• Learning difficulties
• Cognitive and academic achievement assessment
• Behavioural difficulties
• Anxiety
• Social skills
• Positive parenting
• Parental separation
• Sleep difficulties
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Simone ensures a flexible, responsive approach to providing evidence-based psychological services. She is sensitive to cross-cultural issues, fluent in both English and Greek.
Simone is an Associate Member of the Australian Psychological Society, and former representative of the National Committee of Educational and Developmental Psychologists.
She is also a facilitator of the Signposts for Building Better Behaviour training program.
JOSHUA VENN
TEAM & CLIENT SUPPORT
Josh is responsible for front of house, team support, and administrative duties. He has a background in copywriting and online marketing, and has previously received a Bachelor of Communications with a major in Public Relations.
Josh is responsible for front of house, team support, and administrative duties. He has a background in copywriting and online marketing, and has previously received a Bachelor of Communications with a major in Public Relations.
After working as a copywriter throughout Melbourne for a number of years, Josh has recently returned to university and is currently undertaking a Graduate Diploma of Psychology at Monash. With an interest in clinical psychology, he hopes to continue onto postgraduate studies.
Fax
03 9923 6014
Email
reception@karepsychology.com.au
maria@karepsychology.com.au
Our Locations
Fitzroy North
1 / 576 -580 Nicholson Street
Fitzroy North, VIC 3068