Early Start Australia - Subiaco
Early Start Australia | WA | Subiaco (formerly Brainbox Psychology Clinic) has been providing psychology services for children, adolescents and families since 2014. Whilst many of the families we assist are located in the western suburbs of Perth, we also have families travelling long distances from rural and remote areas to seek support. It’s rewarding seeing positive changes take place in family relationships and emotional wellbeing.
Our psychologists have expertise conducting detailed psychological assessment to explore unique strengths and struggles associated with emotion, behaviour, attention and learning. We enjoy assisting children in primary school, teenagers in high school, students applying for special examination arrangements through School Curriculum and Standards Authority (SCSA) and for university considerations. We offer assessment to determine if an individual meets diagnostic criteria for Specific Learning Disorder (such as dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia) and/or Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
Each of our psychologists have specialist areas of interest to offer counselling across the lifespan for parents, families, couples, children, teenagers and adults. We assist parents navigating family relationships, couples experiencing relationship struggles, mothers and fathers with postnatal depression and anxiety, toddlers displaying challenging behaviours, children and teenagers with anxiety, primary school and high school students handling tricky peer social relationships, students learning to organise workload during their final years of education, and university students managing new expectations.
Our psychologists offer assessment and therapy to assist healthy development across the lifespan for parents, families, couples, children, teenagers and adults. We have postgraduate training and specialist expertise to assist across a range of concerns, such as;
- anxiety
- attachment
- attention
- couple relationships
- depression and low mood
- dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia
- emotional regulation
- family relationships
- learning
- obsessions and compulsions
- panic
- parenting
- postnatal depression and anxiety
- procrastination
- self esteem
- self-harm
- separation anxiety
- sleeping
- social relationships
- study organisation
Our psychologists value working together with psychiatrists, paediatricians, general practitioners, educators and allied health professionals to offer collaborative care.
Services we deliver
In addition to her work at Early Start Australia, Karen is called upon to facilitate presentations for parents, educators and health professionals. Through her relationships with universities, Karen provides teaching and supervision for postgraduate students. She has a strong desire to ensure Australia has a sustainable, highly trained workforce to meet the mental health needs of our community now and into the future. Karen has been engaged at a federal level to offer advice regarding improved access to mental health services nationally through Medicare. She enjoys passionately advocating for interventions that enhance the social and emotional health of children and adolescents.
Karen has built a diverse team of Clinical Psychologists Dr Jenny Sandilands and Nina Casella, Educational and Developmental Psychologists Aoife McNally and Kylie Crump, and Psychologists Dr Davinia Shannahan, Rhianna Nolan and Amanda May.