Dr. Kerry Jones

Registered Psychologist
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Bach. Behavioural Science (Hons) 
M.Psych. (Clinical Neuropsychology)
Doctor of Philosophy

Favourite Quote:​
People with healthy boundaries
will respect yours,
Even the fluid ones you pencil in as relationships grow.
Those without boundaries are
​like an eraser –
You will need a permanent marker to survive them.​
 Anonymous

Kerry is a registered psychologist with 20 years’ experience.  With a background in Neuropsychology, Kerry ensures her therapeutic approaches are targeted individually to her clients, and are presented in ways that maximize the brain’s ability to apply learned skills in a meaningful way.  

Kerry is passionate about supporting clients of all ages to better understand their emotions, abilities, intuition and uniqueness and enjoy living to their potential. 

Kerry’s initial training was in Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT), which focuses on changing unhelpful or negative thinking patterns. CBT can be summarised as “I think therefore I am.” Over years of learning from clients, she noticed that thoughts are very hard to change if they are driven by ‘stuck’ emotions. Emotions tend to get stuck if suppressed or not expressed as they happen (or soon after). When they get stuck they can bias thinking in negative ways, particularly as the brain continues to link similar distressing emotions and situations that are ignored rather than processed. 

Her clients taught her much about how important it is that emotions be felt freely, and acknowledged in a supportive environment so they can be stored in the brain in a way that frees up thinking.  

An interest in thinking biases lead Kerry to the observation that unprocessed emotions and situations are linked in the brain by similarities (or likeness), which serve to speed up thinking and responding before the brain has had the time to notice all of the other important information in the situation. This observation taught her the importance of noticing the differences between each unique situation and experience, and also noticing the difference between one’s own thoughts and feelings and those of others so as not to get them mixed up. 

Kerry specialises in:

• EMDR - Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing
• Mindfulness - consciously brings awareness to the here-and-now with openness, interest and receptiveness
• Trauma Re-scripting
• Emotional responsibility
• Play therapy
• Grief counselling
• CBT (Cognitive  Behaviour Therapy)
• Goal setting & life coaching
• Developing healthy boundaries
• Managing difficult personalities
• Family therapy & parenting support
• Grief & trauma
• Family Court work

Kerry sees clients presenting issues including:

Children, Adolescents, Adults, Couples & Families:
​• Depression
• Anxiety
• Bipolar disorder
• Adjustment disorders
• Attachment and bonding
• Grief and trauma
• PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
​• Bullying/school related issues
• Emotional regulation difficulties; including self-harm & anger management
• Relationship stress
• Family separation and conflict; including Family Court issues
• Parenting strategies & support 
• Social & life skills deficits / ASD