About Lee

Lee is a clinical psychologist and formally trained psychotherapist working with young people and adults in Mount Lawley, Western Australia.

She integrates family systems theory, attachment theory, psychoanalytic psychotherapy and mindfulness in her work with clients.

Experience

Since 1988, Lee has run her own private clinical psychology practice in Park Street Subiaco, Shenton Park, and now Mount Lawley.

Lee has previously worked as a clinical psychologist and as a specialist clinical psychologist in child protection and community welfare, child and adolescent psychiatry inpatient and outpatient services, and adult psychiatry outpatient services for government departments.

She has run evidence-based Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction groups as an Associate of Openground and integrates mindfulness into her practice.

Lee has organisational experience as a Welfare and Presiding Member of the Social Security Appeals Tribunal (two terms); the Child Sexual Abuse Task Force; Deputy Chair of the Sexual Assault Resource Centre Board of Management; and as an Advisory Board Member of the Aboriginal Healing Project.

Qualifications and training

Lee is a registered clinical psychologist and supervisor and completed her psychology training at the University of Western Australia (UWA). She is a Clinical Member of the Australian Clinical Psychology Association.

As well as her university training at UWA, Lee has formal psychotherapy training with children and adolescents, and with adults in psychoanalytic models. She trained with Miss Nancy Stewart in the Health Department in advanced child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

Lee also has a Diploma of Adult Psychotherapy with Professor Russell Meares and colleagues, in the Self Psychology Model (1985-1990) and accredited by the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Association of Australasia.

Lee has been a Foundation Clinical Member of the Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of WA since 1985. Lee is also a Member of the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Association of Australasia.

Currently as part of continuing education, Lee is completing two years’ training in time-limited psychoanalytic psychotherapy with adolescents, with Professor Stephen Briggs. She is an invited Trainer with the Family Relations Institute, working with the adult attachment interview within the dynamic maturational model of attachment, with Patricia Crittenden and Andrea Landini.

Lee currently receives weekly supervision of her own clinical work in the object relations model with a child and adolescent psychoanalyst.