Our Team
our team
you’re in good hands
Our team of psychologists are highly trained and qualified to support you on your well-being journey. Each psychologist holds at least a master’s degree and is committed to ongoing professional development, ensuring the highest standard of care. Beyond their professional skills, they are genuinely wonderful individuals who love what they do, creating a warm and welcoming environment for all.
Laura Scherman
Principal Clinical Psychologist
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BPsychSc (Hons), MPsych(Clin), MAPS
Founder and Director of Full Life Psychology, Laura leads a unified, skilled team of compassionate therapists dedicated to helping people live a meaningful and FULL LIFE.
In her own clinical work, Laura values building strong therapeutic relationships with her clients and creates a warm, nurturing, and respectful space where people feel safe to freely talk through the challenges they are facing and to learn ways to better navigate them. Laura wants her clients to feel seen and heard and to know that they matter. Evidence-based therapies Laura uses include Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Schema Therapy, and more recently, Eye Movement Desentisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy. Laura works with clients aged 16 and up and has supported people from diverse backgrounds, such as working professionals, students, pastors and leaders, retirees, police officers, new parents, and more, always respecting their personal values and goals.
Areas of interest include:
Anxiety
Self-worth
Burnout
Adjustment issues
Resolving historical behaviour patterns
Women’s mental health
Health in leadership
Faith and psychology
Laura has experience presenting to groups of people in various educational and church settings. She lives on the Sunshine Coast with her husband and two children, and in her free time enjoys conversations with loved ones, creativity, traveling, and new experiences.
Carmen Fourie
Provisional Psychologist
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ba-psych(hons), MPROFPSYCH
Carmen is a warm and caring Provisional Psychologist committed to supporting individuals of all ages in navigating mental health challenges. She is particularly passionate about working with young people, helping them find their way forward and teaching them practical skills to overcome difficulties. Her creative approach includes explaining complex concepts visually and interactively. She also finds great joy in facilitating group programs.
Over the past two years, Carmen has developed the MiiND Platform, a free interactive mental health resource for young people, and has been leading the Hot Chocolate Circle group therapy program for teenage girls. Through these initiatives, she has gained valuable insights and a deep understanding of the best evidence-based practices for guiding individuals on their mental health journey.
Her areas of interest include:
Anxiety disorders (e.g. Social Anxiety, Generalised Anxiety)
Stress
Depression
Building psychological resilience
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Managing interpersonal relationships (e.g. resolving friendship conflicts).
Faith and psychology
Diana Trim
Provisional Psychologist
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BSc, bed, gdippsych, bpsychsc(hons), mpp, assoc maps
Diana brings a wealth of life and professional experience to her role as a Provisional Psychologist, having worked extensively in education, business and ministry. Her past leadership roles as a School Principal, business owner, team leader, manager, educator and pastor, have helped hone her unique set of skills, and enables her to connect well with a range of people of different ages and backgrounds.
Diana loves to help people better understand how their mind works and to work with it, not against it, so that they can better navigate whatever obstacles they are facing and to cultivate their best life. Diana creates a safe and supportive environment for people to be able to open up and more comfortably discuss their experiences and challenges.
Diana is integrative and collaborative in her approach, and uses evidence-based therapies, customised to the individual situation. She is able to provide services in English, Afrikaans and Dutch.
Her areas of interest include:
Anxiety and panic
Depression
Life transitions
Immigration challenges
Grief and loss
Workplace stress
Working in education
Psychological assessment
Faith and psychology
Noleen Sonderegger
Clinical Psychologist
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BA(Psych), BPsych(Hons), MPsych(Clin)
Noleen Sonderegger is a Clinical Psychologist and mother to five amazing children. Noleen cares deeply for her clients and has been dedicated to helping others both in our local community and abroad. Noleen has worked for many years in the area of transcultural mental health, specifically with young survivors of trauma associated with war in Northern Uganda. She is passionate about justice and the author of the novel ‘Hunting Angels’, which depicts the lives of children caught up in Northern Uganda’s civil war. As well as this, Noleen is published in national and international scientific journals for her work with childhood anxiety and depression.
At a personal level Noleen loves nothing more than the simple things in life. She loves being out in nature and her hobbies include trail running, gardening, kayaking and writing. Between being a mother and her work as a Clinical Psychologist, she is attempting to find the time to write her second book.
Key interest areas:
Anxiety and phobias
Depression
Addictions
Parenting and young mums
Trauma
Arwyn Warner
Clinical Psychologist
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BA(Psych)Hons, MPsych(Clin)
Arwyn is a warm, empathetic Clinical Psychologist who has worked for over twenty years in private practice, community settings and hospitals. Whatever a person is struggling with, she aims to help her clients feel valued and empowered to overcome their difficulties and live well. She enjoys helping adults 18 years and over from all walks of life and works with each person to identify their goals and understand what is happening for them. She draws on a range of evidence-based treatment approaches according to each person’s needs, including interpersonal therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Schema Therapy and EMDR. Arwyn provides Telehealth services only, which means you can have therapy in the comfort of your home and is available on Mondays.
Her areas of interest include:
Anxiety conditions
Depression
Sleep problems
Women’s mental health
PTSD and complex trauma
Coping with stress, adjustment and grief and loss
Coping with chronic illness and medical conditions, including cancer, migraines, persistent pain and functional neurological conditions
Arwyn lives in Brisbane with her husband and has two wonderful adult daughters. She loves music, drawing and dancing, and when she is not working as a psychologist, she can be found hiking in the bush, brushcutting weeds on their property or tango dancing.
David Beal
Provisional Psychologist
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BA(Hons), bsc(psych)(Hons), GDipMin, GDipPsych, Mpp, Assoc maps
David is an authentic, warm and caring Provisional Psychologist who has raised six children with his wife of over 20 years and as such has a wealth of lived experience that he brings to his role - particularly when working with children and parents. David loves getting to know people on a deep level - to really understand how they think and to create a safe space to work collaboratively together. David loves to work around building hope for his clients and is passionate about helping them understand their values and using this as the basis to support them to walk into the future they desire. David is trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and uses these plus other similar modalities to work with his clients.
David’s areas of interest include:
Men’s mental health
ASD
ADHD
Psychological assessment
Parenting and families
Anxiety and panic symptoms
Depression
Faith and psychology
In addition, David loves to talk about and watch sport, particularly Rugby Union, read books, chill out with black and white movies, relax with his dog - a beautiful Cavoodle called Texas, and explore different countries around the world.
Dr. Alexandra Lamont
Clinical Psychologist
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B.Sc(Hons), DPsych(Clin), GCADS, MAPS, FCCLP
Alex is a compassionate and empathetic clinical psychologist dedicated to supporting clients build self-awareness and foster hope, empowering them to lead more fulfilling lives despite the challenges they face. Alex employs evidence-based therapies such as CBT, ACT, Schema Therapy, Prolonged Exposure, and EMDR to help clients aged 18 years and older achieve their goals. She supports individuals dealing with depression, trauma/PTSD, anxiety, grief and loss, substance use, and interpersonal challenges.
Having done a stint in the Australian Army as a military psychologist, Alex has a keen interest in working with veterans. After moving to Australia from Zimbabwe/Botswana over 20 years ago, she understands the cultural challenges of relocation and loves connecting with people from diverse backgrounds and spiritual beliefs. Before becoming a psychologist, Alex trained as a nurse and midwife in South Africa, grounding her in a holistic understanding of care. She is an avid traveller, a bookworm, a Tour de France fan and has run a marathon or two in her time.
Key interest areas:
Trauma
Veterans
ADHD adult assessments
Anxiety
Depression
Stress and burnout
Kerrin Van Der Kruk
Clinical Psychologist
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BA(Psych), BPsych(Hons), MProfPsych, MAAPI
Kerrin is a friendly, supportive and passionate psychologist with a Masters in Professional Psychology. Kerrin draws on her own life skills from raising a large family, to create a relaxed, safe space for her clients to explore their challenges in a compassionate and uplifting atmosphere. She works together with her clients, drawing upon their own strengths, to help them take courageous steps forward towards achieving their goals and living the life that they want to live. She enjoys assisting her clients in developing more awareness of their unique patterns of behavioural responses, to identify the impact these responses have on their life, and to better equip clients to engage in more helpful behaviours which improve their outcomes.
Kerrin offers both individual and couples therapy. When meeting with couples, Kerrin works from an Emotional Focused Therapy and Schema Therapy framework to help clients better understand their relationship patterns of interactions and gently guides them in a way to restore connection and promote resilience in their relationship.
Kerrin has worked with people from a variety of backgrounds across the life span, in both private practice and government settings and now works predominately with people over the age of 15. She is skilled in a variety of evidenced-based therapies which she tailors to each situation, including Schema Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Emotionally Focused Therapy. Kerrin is also trained in trauma focused therapies such as Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy, and trauma-focused Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies (CBT).
Her areas of interest include:
Relationships and marriage health
Attachment and personality difficulties
PTSD and complex trauma
Sleep/awake difficulties
Emotional regulation difficulties, suicidal thoughts, and self-harm
Depression, grief and adjustment challenges
Anxiety and panic symptoms
Anger, stress and burnout
Addictions and substance misuse
Life transitions and stuck points
Nikki Nucifora
Provisional Psychologist
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ON MATERNITY LEAVE
Nikki is a highly-skilled Clinical Psychologist, wife and mother. Nikki offers exclusively telehealth (online) consults - making psychology sessions accessible wherever you are. Nikki has a passion to help people improve their mental health and wellbeing, overcoming obstacles to maximise their capacity and resilience. She is warm, caring and well-loved by her clients. She has worked in private settings for a number of years and has helped many people from a wide range of different backgrounds, ages and life experiences. She has also had opportunities to present on mental health topics to a range of different audiences and has been part of writing mental health programs for displaced people living in refugee camps.