Dr Marjolein Kammers – Newport Counselling Claimed

Dr Marjolein Kammers is a passionate provisional psychologist and scientific researcher with a background in pain, body representation and cognitive neuroscience. In addition to a strong track record in research, she has many years’ experience with counselling clients from a wide range of cultural backgrounds.

Considerate, enthusiastic and caring, Marjolein holds space for the client as a whole. Together with her clients she looks at the relationship between emotions, thoughts, behaviour and how they not only interact with our mental health but also our physical well-being.

She builds a safe, open and collaborative space where she supports, encourages and empowers clients to work toward their goals while creating insight into their own emotional and physical wellbeing. Marjolein specialises in grief and anxiety around the reproductive journey, next steps in life questions for young people, depression, pain education, incorporating a medical diagnosis, chronic condition or disability into one’s life’s and mindfulness techniques.

Next to her clinical practice, she conducts scientific research into the way children and adolescents feel in and relate to their body after invasive cancer treatment at the Royal Children’s Hospital. She is also running an intervention research project looking into the improvement of the emotional wellbeing of women who experience an early pregnancy loss at a private hospital in Melbourne.

Finally, she is Co-Director of the Mental Health PhD Program at the University of Melbourne. This program brings together over 50 graduate researchers in mental health from over a dozen different Schools and Centres across the University and creates multidisciplinary professional development opportunities. This position provides Dr Kammers with an unparalleled network within mental health research and puts her at the forefront of new developments and insights.