Meet your Village…
Professionals who can help you with your birth trauma or birth preparation.
DIRECTOR, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST
Dr Lucy Frankham
PhD – (Topic: Birth Experiences)
Masters Degree in Clinical Psychology
First Class Honours Degree in Psychology
EMDRAA Accredited Practitioner
Psychology Board of Australia Approved Supervisor
Circle of Security Educator
Gottman’s Bringing Baby Home Educator
Dagmara Rowlands MSc, AMHSW
Available in person at Coburg or online.
Dagmara is an experienced therapist and Mental Health Social Worker. She counsels individuals and couples on a range of personal and relationship difficulties. She has expertise in perinatal bereavement, chronic pain issues, trauma, grief and loss and 15 years clinical experience in community and hospital settings including gynaecology and oncology. She provides a compassionate, respectful space and will work with you at a pace that feels right for you. Her therapeutic approaches include EMDR, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT) and Self-compassion.
Dagmara will help you explore your experiences and goals. Her focus will be on drawing out your unique strengths and abilities to foster positive change In couples work she is skilled in supporting couples to communicate and reconnect with one another, creating space from which they can discuss and address issues collaboratively and explore future plans together in a safe, secure and focused environment.
Dagmara offers a safe and confidential space where people will be heard and feel respected, exploring issues of their choosing at their own pace. Medicare rebates are available.
Email: dagmararowlands@icloud.com
Karen Potter BSW, MPsych (Educational and Developmental), Graduate Diploma Infant Mental Health
Available in person at Camberwell or online.
Karen is a registered Psychologist and an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker who has been working as a psychotherapist and counsellor for over 27 years. Karen is deeply committed to supporting parents and infants from the idea of a baby in the parents’ mind, through to conceiving, pregnancy (or not) and throughout the postnatal years. She enjoys working with parents to enhance their bond with their infant and facilitate a path to a more joyous and confident experience of parenting and family life.
Early in her career, Karen worked at the Royal Women’s Hospital in the Neonatal Intensive and Special Care Nurseries as well as in one of the high complexity ante-natal clinics. Her role as Counsellor/Social Worker involved providing support, counselling and advocacy for parent(s) with a premature or sick baby or whose baby died either at birth or in the nurseries. Understanding the crucial experience for infants and mothers of physical contact during this time, Karen began exploring the method of Kangaroo Mother Care. She was funded by the hospital to travel to Brazil to attend a conference to learn more about this method. During this period Karen presented a paper at an Australian Association of Infant Mental Health Conference and Seminar in relation to the hypothesized experience for the infant of being in Intensive Care.
Subsequently, Karen worked at Melbourne IVF as a Counsellor to couples and individuals seeking medical support to conceive. Karen later moved to Northern NSW where she created a private practice. Alongside her clinical work, she was a Consultant Counsellor for Sydney IVF’s Lismore office and Infant-Parent Consultant with Family Support Network, where she provided in-home counselling to parent(s) and infants from 0-12 months, as well as facilitated groups and presented training to professionals.
Karen has been working in private practice for over 20 years now and brings to her work a wealth of knowledge and experience together with a genuine warmth, compassion and capacity to connect with people on all levels.
Email: karen.potter.829@gmail.com
Dr Sarah Young BSc (Hons) Psychology, DPsych (Clin)
Accepting new telehealth referrals from February 2026.
Sarah is a clinical psychologist with fifteen years of experience working with clients with a broad range of presentations. She has a particular interest in working with clients with a history of trauma and has focussed on specialising her skills in this area. This interest extends to working with individuals navigating the perinatal period and Sarah is passionate about supporting clients through the psychological aspects associated with this stage of life.
Sarah utilises a range of therapeutic techniques to suit a client’s individual needs. She is a trained EMDR therapist and also draws on various trauma-informed interventions including sensorimotor psychotherapy, internal family systems, cognitive processing therapy, and mindfulness-based interventions.
Sarah has genuine interest and care for supporting others and uses a warm and compassionate approach.
Email: sarah@goldcoastclinical.com.au