Ascending Psychology has a team of passionate and experienced Psychologists in Murwillumbah and via telehealth to meet the needs of our clients and the community. Explore our page and find the right Psychologist for you. Otherwise, our friendly reception team can make recommendations based on availability and experience.
Sarah Campbell
Director, Senior Clinical Psychologist
Sarah is a Clinical Psychologist passionate about the treatment of complex and chronic conditions. Having spent over a decade working in forensic contexts, she serves as an expert witness to the courts, preparing reports to assist in complex decision making. She is also a board approved supervisor.
Outside of private practice, Sarah has worked in forensic mental health, custody settings, offshore processing centers, and in remote indigenous contexts. She therefore relies on various different modalities and theories to meet the cultural, emotional, social and spiritual needs of her clients. She is passionate about holding space for people to curiously reflect on their experiences and the strategies they have relied upon to cope with the joys, disappointments, tragedies and successes in life. More recently, Sarah has become a registered Circle of Security Parenting Facilitator. This program allows her to hold space for caregivers to embark on a journey of self-reflection as they navigate this powerful and challenging role.
Available: Not currently taking new therapy clients. Accepting referrals for medico-legal assessments
Dr. Sierra van Wyk
Senior Clinical Psychologist
Dr Sierra van Wyk is a clinical psychologist with extensive experience in public and private settings. Sierra draws from multiple approaches in her treatment including psychodynamic, attachment and relational work. She also integrates practical strategies as necessary, drawing on CBT and mindfulness-based approaches.
Sierra’s treatment approach is focused on providing an emotionally supportive space for people to reflect on their own experiences and develop a deeper understanding of the patterns that are causing them to feel stuck within their lives. Through self-knowledge, clients will develop an increased capacity to identify their own experiences, care for themselves in a more adaptive way and develop new ways to engage with themselves and the world around them. This treatment approach can be adapted to best suit the needs of the individual. In addition to 1:1 therapy, Sierra also co-facilitates process group therapy.
Available: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Dr. Christopher Zurawic
Senior Clinical Psychologist
Available: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Brigid Blanckenberg
Clinical Psychologist
Brigid is a warm, collaborative and non-judgmental psychologist who is passionate about empowering her clients to connect with values and to pursue purposeful lives.
She draws on a range of evidence based therapeutic modalities including Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Schema Therapy, DBT skills and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to support her clients to explore life difficulties. As a former yoga teacher and long-term meditator, Brigid is also particularly interested in using mindfulness-based approaches to deepen awareness of the mind, while strengthening self-compassion and acceptance.
Available: Tuesday & Thursday
Cassandra Burford
Clinical Psychologist
Cassandra was raised in the Northern Rivers and is offering Telehealth Appointments. She works predominantly with adults, and can also provide couples therapy, and parenting interventions.
Cassandra enjoys supporting people experiencing anxiety and mood disorders, substance use issues, grief and loss, interpersonal difficulties, challenges managing emotional distress, and those adjusting to change. She has a special interest in supporting older adults, and people experiencing physical health issues such as Cancer and blood disorders.
Available: Wed, Thurs, Fri. Available via Telehealth. Afterhours Appointments Available.
Susanne Lohmann
Clinical Psychologist Registrar
Susanne has experience working with people of all ages including children, adolescents and older adults. She enjoys working with individuals, couples and families in individual and group therapy settings. She is experienced in assisting clients with a wide range of challenges including anxiety, depression, PTSD, complex PTSD and personality disorders, as well as issues that arise in relationships, parenting or career related roles.
Susanne uses an integrative and strength-based approach to therapy and draws on a variety of evidence-based therapeutic modalities to meet her clients’ individual needs and to assist them to achieve their goals and potential, including cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT), mindfulness based therapies, somatic and attachment informed approaches, systemic therapies and trauma focused therapies, particularly schema therapy and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR).
Available: Tuesday & Wednesday
Angela Jones
General Psychologist
Angela works with the Ascending Psychology team as a generally registered psychologist. While Angela arrived later in life to psychology, she arrives at the clinic with ample life experience, genuine warmth, and an urge to better the world around her by listening and learning with others. Angela offers an emotionally safe space to just be, and by drawing on the structure and practical strategies provided by a range of therapeutic approaches to ensure sessions address the unique needs of each person. Given Angela’s prior experience working with those harmed by violence, her approach to therapy is trauma-informed and trauma-based.
Angela welcomes clients from across the lifespan presenting with a broad array of life’s difficulties and adversities including anxiety and depression, grief and bereavement, those subjected to family violence, trauma, forced adoption, suicidality and more. Angela is also available to complete assessments for those wishing to better understand their cognitive or neurodivergent profiles.
Prior to psychology, Angela forged a working life in law at community legal centres, as a facilitator of youth justice conferences, and as a university educator. Outside of work, she is likely to be found in her garden, cycling on the beach or paddleboarding.
Available: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday
Susan Hodgkinson
Provisional Psychologist
Susan brings her warmth and compassion together to benefit every client. She is a Provisional Psychologist with over 15 years’ experience in the Disability, Community and Child Protection sectors, working across diverse settings including community group home facilities. Susan has strong experience in supporting families, foster carers, and young people to live their best life; to work collaboratively and thrive.
Her therapeutic influences incorporate postgraduate training in mindfulness practices with compassion-focused therapy and cognitive-behavioural therapy. Her focus enables exploration of what it means to be human, empowering her clients in their journey towards self-compassion and acceptance.
Susan is informed by her own life experience, developing skill in a strengths-based and person-centred approach. She works to uncover your personal resources to help you connect with ways of living with meaning and fulfillment.
Susan works under the supervision of Clinic Director, Sarah Campbell, and she is an associate member of the Australian Psychological Society.
Available: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
Dr. Libby Quinn
Clinical Psychologist
Dr. Libby will be joining the Ascending Team in April 2024. Her full bio will be available soon!
Available: Monday & Friday