Nicki Kemp (she/her)

Clinical Psychologist

BPsych (Hons) MClinPsych

Nicki is a highly experienced psychologist who has been working in the field for over 20 years. She is also the director of the Northwest Psychology Practice. Her passion is working with children and young people and helping them to live their best lives. She works with issues such as anxiety and school refusal, anger, tantrums and managing big emotions, sleeping, eating and toileting problems and coping with big changes. She has a particular interest in working with kids who are neurodiverse or on the autism spectrum.

“I feel privileged to be able to work with children and families to build the kind of lives they want. The process is sometimes challenging but always creative and collaborative. It is wonderful to help kids and parents to become more confident and find strengths and abilities they didn’t know they had.”

Areas of interest

  • Neurodiversity and Autism Spectrum Disorders

  • Child anxiety and school refusal

  • Helping families cope with big changes (eg separation and divorce)

  • Helping kids manage big emotions (anger, tantrums)

  • Helping kids with trauma, grief and loss

Treatment approaches

  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

  • Acceptance and Committment Therapy

  • Collaborative and Proactive Solutions (Ross Greene)

  • Emotion coaching

Professional memberships

  • Fully registered Psychologist with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency

  • Registered Medicare Provider

  • Member of the Australian Psychological Society.

  • Member of the Clinical College of the Australian Psychological Society

  • Member of the Australian Association for Cognitive and Behaviour Therapy (AACBT)

Make an appointment to see Nicki

She is available for consultations on Tuesday.