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Meet Rebecca Cooper
Pronouns: She/they
Registered Psychologist/Clinical Psychology Registrar
Qualifications & Accreditations
Bachelor of Psychology (Honours)
Master of Applied Psychology (Professional)
Master of Clinical Psychology (Post-Registration)
Schema Therapy Practitioner
EMDR Practitioner
Professional Memberships
Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency
Availability
Face-to-face availability (Telehealth is available on a case-by-case basis)
Available 10am-7pm, Mondays, Tuesdays & Thursdays
Age Groups
13 years+
About me
I started working in the mental health and disability field 9 years ago as an NDIS support worker before working as a registered psychologist 5 years ago and seeing a wide variety of people. My approach to therapy combines holistic, person-centred care with good quality research evidence about how brains and bodies work and what they need. I like to balance creating a safe and comforting space with building the confidence to make important changes that can help a person grow.
Background + special interests
I like to stay up-to-date on research, books, and workshops on trauma, schema therapy, and EMDR, and culturally-responsive care.
Area of Interest
I know a lot about complex trauma, BPD, and PTSD, which has led me to other interests such as neurodiversity-affirming practice (specifically, ADHD and Autism), and many eating disorders. I particularly love working with LGBT+ people, youth, and CaLD and refugee/immigrant populations.
Therapeutic Frameworks:
I tend to use a lot of schema therapy, dialectical-behavioural therapy (DBT), cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT), and eye movement desensitisation & reprocessing (EMDR).
What do you love most about the job? What drives you?
I really love connecting with people through the complexity of being a person and helping them grow.
Three words that describe you the most?
Warm, compassionate, down-to-earth.
What keeps you busy outside of work? What things are you learning at the moment? Interests, hobbies, etc.
I’m a gothy-artsy-nerd girl who likes drawing, comics, rollerblading, learning about the world, and hanging out with my loved ones.
How do you play?
I’m open to all kinds of play, but particularly like dancing, humour, memes, weird dating sims, and tabletop role-playing games.
Publications
- Cooper, R. Z., Smith, A., Lewis, D., Lee, C., & Leeds, A. (2019). Developing the interrater reliability of the modified EMDR Fidelity Checklist. Journal of EMDR Practice & Research, 13(1), 32-50. https://dx/doi/org/10.1891/1933-3196.13.1.32
- Nia, N. G., Afrasiabifar, A., Behnammoghadam, M., Cooper, R. Z. (2019). The effect of EMDR versus guided imagery on insomnia severity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Journal of EMDR Practice & Research, 13(1), 2-9. https://dx.doi.org/ n http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/1933-3196.13.1.2
- Behnammoghadam, M., Keramine, S., Zoladl, M., Cooper, R. Z., & Shahini, S. (2019). Effect of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) on severity of stress in emergency medical technicians, Psychology Research & Behaviour Management, 12, 289-296. https://dx.doi.org/10.2147/PRBM.S190428
Publications as Peer Reviewer
- O'Hare, K., Lång, U., Healy, C., Kougianou, I., Talukder, A., Murray, R., Lawrie, S., John, A., & Kelleher, I. (2025). Psychosis and bipolar disorder risk in child and adolescent mental health services in the UK: population cohort study. British Journal of Psychiatry. Published online: 1-7. doi:10.1192/bjp.2025.48
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