KARE
PSYCHOLOGY
Fostering Meaningful Change
Welcome to Kare Psychology
At Kare Psychology, our psychologists use a client-centered therapeutic approach to work collaboratively with their patients to enhance their quality of life and overall well-being. Our psychologists use evidence-based interventions when working with clients and have a range of expertise and highly developed skills to achieve positive therapeutic outcomes with their clients.
We strive to provide a calm and secure therapy environment to reduce the level of distress clients often report feeling when seeing a psychologist. We achieve this through the use of specially designed therapy rooms and match clients to a suitable psychologist.
We 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.

COUNSELLING
Anxiety Disorders
Depression
Stress Management
Other Counselling

ASSESSMENTS
Intellectual/cognitive functioning
Behavioural
Observational
Memory

TRAINING
ATTENTION TRAINING
Support Learning
Increase Attention
MEMORY TRAINING
Cogmed Working Memory Training is an evidence based program for helping children, adolescents, and adults sustainably improve attention by training their working memory.
SNOEZELEN MULTISENSORY
The multi-sensory room offers stimulation and relaxation through the use of touch, smell, sound, colour and light.
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read moreMeet Our Team

Maria Karefilakis
Director & Psychologist
Maria Karefilakis, our clinic Director and principal psychologist has a Masters in Educational and Developmental Psychology.

Jamie Maserow
Psychologist
Jamie is a warm and caring general practitioner with a Masters in Professional Psychology.

SIMONE GINDIDIS
Psychologist
Simone is a registered psychologist and PhD candidate in Educational and Developmental Psychology.
Our Locations
Fitzroy North
468 Brunswick Street
Fitzroy North, VIC 3068