Samantha Lorraine Molloy
Melbourne
Summary
AHPRA registered Psychologist and ACA accredited Counsellor with a compassionate and attentive approach to therapy and psychological assessment. Prioritizing the well-being, strengths, and autonomy of clients using a person-centered approach. Demonstrated strength in building strong rapport with clients. Passionate about working with child and adolescent client groups and supporting families in understanding their children's needs. Dedicated to collaborating with educators and educational systems to ensure evidence-based accommodations for children facing complex challenges. Highly effective in managing allied health teams due to authentic professional relationships, strong interpersonal skills, and high-quality supervisory support.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Psychologist (Fully Registered)
Cathartic Consulting
03.2023 - Current
- Used therapeutic communication techniques to build rapport and guide discussion with clients.
- Interviewed, observed and surveyed clients to gain necessary information for psychological diagnosis.
- Conducted client observations by monitoring behaviour and documented physical health, family history and medications in mental health assessment reports.
- Evaluated client's goals to develop individualised treatment plans.
- Implementation of high quality, evidence based therapeutic modalities.
- Collaborated with other healthcare professionals to coordinate care plans and implement continuity of care.
- Administration of developmental, behavioural, and educational assessments.
- High quality report writing.
- Regular engagement in client care team meetings, student support group meetings, disability inclusion profile meetings and allied health care team meetings.
- Facilitated group therapy sessions to provide interactive and supportive environment for clients to process experiences and learn new coping skills.
- Led and developed psychoeducational workshops, and seminars for parents and clients on topics such as 'good enough' parenting, coaching your ADHD child, understanding your autistic child, implementing neuro-affirming parenting practices.
- Managed caseload of individual clients, couples, and family therapy sessions.
- Provide supervision and administrative support to team of psychologists.
- Engagement in personal individual and group supervision.
- Provide consultancy to schools (primary and secondary) for whole school approaches to wellbeing, behaviour support practices, school processes, leadership and communication skills.
- Development and presentation of professional learning seminars for schools (primary and secondary).
Psychologist (Provisional and Fully Registered)
Department Of Education And Training Victoria
03.2021 - 02.2023
- Clinical assessment and counselling
- Psychological report writing
- Treatment planning
- Case conceptualisation
- Formulation and diagnosis in accordance with DSM-V and ICD-11 criteria
- Professional liaison with key stakeholders such as GP's, support workers, case workers, teachers, families, allied health professionals, NDIS agencies and government departments.
- Provide professional learning for teaching staff.
- Supporting executive leadership in implementing and managing school wellbeing practices and policies.
- Regular engagement with Student Support Services (SSS) staff and Health and Wellbeing Key Contact (HWKC).
Student Wellbeing Coordinator
Department Of Education And Training Victoria
04.2016 - 03.2021
- Member of executive leadership team
- Management of school allied health team
- Supervision of university student placements (Counselling students)
- Implementation and management of whole school wellbeing procedures and policies.
- Facilitation of professional learning for teaching staff.
- Creation, implementation, and ongoing monitoring and evaluation of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) curriculum.
- Coaching and support for educators in the delivery of SEL curriculum and RRR curriculum.
- Implementation of school wide data management system to track wellbeing, risk, and student behaviours.
- Working with school professional learning communities (PLCs) to respond to student wellbeing data.
- Conducted school wide research into student wellbeing to target wellbeing interventions.
- Provided counselling and assessment to students as a Masters Level accredited clinical counsellor.
- Provided case management support to families
- Managing complex clients, ongoing liaison with SSS clinicians, complex matters, legal branch, SIRU unit.
- Completing IRIS incident reports.
- Working with external stakeholders.
- Managed student care teams.
Counsellor Advocate and Caseworker
Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
01.2014 - 12.2017
- Client case coordination
- Liaising with external stakeholders
- Management and supervision of volunteer caseworkers and counselling team
- Providing trauma counselling
- Case conceptualisation
- Clinical assessment
- Risk assessment
- Safety Planning
- Maintained accurate documentation of client interactions, assessments, and progress notes for effective case management.
- Educated clients on available community resources, fostering a sense of empowerment and selfsufficiency.
- Guided clients in developing skills and strategies for dealing with problems.
- Contributed to a supportive work environment by sharing knowledge, resources, and new findings within the counselling field.
- Designed culturally-sensitive interventions tailored to each client''s background and experiences.
- Participated in ongoing professional development trainings to remain current on best practices within the counselling field.
Education
Graduate Diploma of Psychology Advanced - Psychology
Monash University
Clayton, VIC01.2021
Masters in Counselling - Counselling
Monash University
Clayton, VIC2016
Bachelor of Social Science - Psychology
Swinburne University
Hawthorn, VIC2014
Skills
- CBT, ACT, DBT, IPT, Schema Therapy, Positive Psychology, Solution Focused Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- ADOS-2, WISC-V, WPPSI-IV, WAIS-IV, WIAT-III, WRAML, CBCL, BASC-3, Vineland-3, BDI-II, DASS, SDQ, PAI, TSI-2, SCID-5, NEO, BRIEF-2, Conners-4, YSQ, RCADS, SCAS, YSQ-R
- Autism assessment reports, ADHD assessment reports, Specific Learning Disorder assessment reports, functional behaviour analysis reports, NDIS progress reports, personality assessments reports, trauma assessment reports, reports for GP's, reports for workcover and Victims of Crime
Proficient in multiple therapeutic modalities
Proficient in multiple Psychometric Assessments
Proficient in psychological report writing
- Provision of clinical supervision to psychologists, school wellbeing leaders and mental health clinicians Currently undertaking the PsyBA Board approved supervisor accreditation
- Managing compliance with external stakeholders and services such as Medicare, NDIS, AHPRA, Workcover, Victims of Crime
- Management of own day to day tasks, work diary, responsiveness to emails, phone calls, high quality time management skills, effective interpersonal skills for navigating administrative needs of a business
Clinical supervision
Regulatory compliance
Administrative Organisation
Timeline
Psychologist (Fully Registered)
Cathartic Consulting
03.2023 - Current
Psychologist (Provisional and Fully Registered)
Department Of Education And Training Victoria
03.2021 - 02.2023
Student Wellbeing Coordinator
Department Of Education And Training Victoria
04.2016 - 03.2021
Counsellor Advocate and Caseworker
Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
01.2014 - 12.2017
Graduate Diploma of Psychology Advanced - Psychology
Monash University
Masters in Counselling - Counselling
Monash University
Bachelor of Social Science - Psychology
Swinburne University
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