Monica Schweickle

Monica is a Senior Clinical Psychologist and a Psychology Board Approved Supervisor with 20 years of experience in a range of mental health settings.

Monica is also a mother, yoga teacher, gardening enthusiast and book nerd. 

Her clinical experience includes working with people who have experienced childhood and adult trauma, especially veterans, current and former serving defence personnel, First Nations peoples, domestic violence survivors, and victims of crime. She has worked within inpatient and outpatient psychiatric hospital settings, in private practice, and prisons. 

Monica has expertise in the field of substance use, having worked across opiate substitution clinics, community settings and residential rehabilitation services. 

Monica has been involved in the training, supervision, and well-being of other mental health professionals for the past decade. She provides clinical supervision to health professionals, counsellors and peer workers, provisional, registered, and clinical registrar psychologists, as well as professionals with conditions posed on their registration by AHPRA. 

Monica believes that the relationship between client and therapist is the heart of effective therapy and that the relationship between supervisee and supervisor is equally as important. She is a warm, insightful therapist whose approach depends on the needs of the person. Her therapeutic style draws on strengths-based approaches, relational and interpersonal psychotherapy, Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR), IFS, somatic psychotherapy, mindfulness and non-dual meditation practices. Monica is an Accredited EMDR Practitioner with EMDRAA, an Internal Family Systems (IFS) Level 1 Practitioner. 

She is a Certified iRest Yoga Nidra teacher and has co-authored research on yoga and mental health.