Dr Emma Keaveny Cook
Emma is an experienced Clinical Psychologist and Accredited EMDR therapist who enjoys working collaboratively with her clients to understand their current experiences and what might be helpful to focus on going forward. Emma will work with you to understand your present needs and the path that led you here.
Emma works in an integrative way which draws on ideas about how we build and maintain relationships (attachment theory), how one person or context impacts on another (systemic theory) and how our own thoughts and feelings interact (cognitive behaviour theory). We would work together to make sense of what thoughts and feelings may be underlying your experiences alongside how when we feel stressed or overwhelmed, we find this more difficult to understand. Emma is trained in using Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy and has found this a useful way of working with a wide variety of presenting concerns.
Areas of Expertise:
• Pregnancy and post natal support (Perinatal well-being)
• Traumatic experiences
• Adjustment difficulties
• Anxiety and Depression
• Working with health professionals
I’ve found my voice just from hanging out with my good girlfriends, and therapy has really helped me. It allows me to process and regulate what is coming in because I can easily get overwhelmed by all the different elements coming at me.”
Jessica Williams
Emma qualified in the UK as a Clinical Psychologist in 2005 and has over 20 years of experience working with adults, parents, carers, children and young people. Emma has worked in a variety of settings in the UK including the National Health Service, local authority services and the Anna Freud Centre and in Sydney with children in out of home care and for a short term residential service for families with primary school aged children.
Emma worked at Royal Holloway, University of London as a Clinical Tutor training other Clinical Psychologists and she is an experienced supervisor and Clinical Lead. Emma is registered with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) and the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) in the UK.
Emma teaches Mentalization Based Treatment for Families (MBT-F) nationally and internationally and supervises others using this approach. Emma was lead author for a chapter on the development of MBT-F in the book ‘Keeping Children in Mind; Mentalization-based Interventions with Children, Young People and their Families’ by Nick Midgely and Ioanna Vrouva.
From short term solutions to longer term support Emma will work with you to figure out the best option for you or your family.
