Brisbane Psychologist

Kate Brayley

General/Performance Psychologist, Master of Psychology (Sport and Exercise)

Kate is a general psychologist with a Master of Psychology from the University of Queensland. Kate has a wise, kind manner, and extensive business, professional and life experience. She encourages her clients to share their difficulties and life pressures, to devise a treatment plan that is tailored to each person’s goals, values and needs.

Kate’s treatment is informed by evidence-based therapies, such as cognitive behaviour therapy and acceptance-commitment therapy: Tools that ultimately help us work through hard thoughts, feelings and actions so as to expand our coping strategies, build on the positives, and create meaningful change.

Before training as a psychologist, Kate worked in the corporate world, education and performance. Kate’s expertise, together with additional specialist training as a psychologist, means you will be in good hands for the outcomes you’re seeking to reach. Kate undertakes regular professional development to build and update her clinical skills and has regular supervision for her work. This underpins her clinical work to ensure ongoing best-practice assessment, diagnosis and care for all clients.

Kate has a special interest in performance across all domains and has a Master of Sport and Exercise Psychology. She is also interested in the relationship between physical and mental/emotional health.

Kate works with individuals 18+yrs of age.

Her areas of treatment include:

• Supporting life transitions
• Dealing with stress, anxiety and depression
• Building self-esteem and confidence
• Dealing with change over the stages of life
• Skills for building healthy relationships
• Managing conflict and difficult conversations
• Improving communication skills and effectiveness
• Managing and developing lifestyle changes
• Overcoming barriers to exercise/physical activity
• Enhancing Performance
• Managing goal setting and action planning
• Adjustment
• Burnout
• Coaching

Schools of therapy that Kate regularly practices are:

• Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
• Motivational Interviewing
• Person-Centred
• Positive Psychology
• Solution Focused Brief Therapy

Kate has available appointments on Mondays 1:00pm – 4:30pm and Wednesdays 8:00am – 4:00pm.

Kate is curently accepting new clients.