Gidget Clinicians

Rebecca Stewart is an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker with over a decade of experience supporting women through the many transitions of life, with a particular focus on the perinatal period. She

Paula is an accredited mental health social worker with 20 years experience. Paula has worked in women’s health all of her working career and is passionate about her role as a women’s health and family advocate, working respectively with empathy and care.

Fran (Francieli) is a psychologist with 15 years of experience working with children, adults, and families.

Fran is a clinical psychologist with more than 17 years of experience working with children, adults, couples, and families. She brings a warm and empathetic approach to her work, complemented by a touch of humour and spontaneity. As a trauma-informed therapist, she provides gender- and neuro-affirming care, creating a safe, inclusive, and empowering environment in which clients from diverse backgrounds can feel respected, understood, and supported in celebrating their identities and strengths.

Hollie Swanton (she/her) is an Endorsed Mental Health Occupational Therapist, Yoga Teacher, perinatal mental health practitioner, disability advocate, and mother of three (one in her heart and two in her arms). With nearly two decades of experience, she supports individuals and families through significant life transitions across mental health, rehabilitation, and women’s health. She works as a clinician and clinical supervisor at Gidget Foundation Australia and is a member of the Parenting with Disability Working Group, contributing to both direct client care and workforce capability in inclusive perinatal practice. Hollie is an embodied, relational, trauma-sensitive and identity-focused therapist. Her work is grounded in occupational therapy and informed by attachment theory, nervous system science and matrescence. Drawing on her background in yoga and somatic practice, she integrates trauma-informed care, sensory and body-based approaches, pelvic health knowledge, and evidence-based therapies including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), and Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT). As a Circle of Security facilitator, she incorporates attachment-informed, dyadic and family systems perspectives to strengthen parent–infant relationships and support secure connection. She brings both professional expertise and lived experience to her work, fostering compassionate and neuroaffirming spaces for parents navigating disability, pregnancy loss, and the complexities of early parenting. Hollie is passionate about advocating for accessible, individualised and strengths-based support so parents feel empowered, connected and confident within the broader social systems in which they live and parent.

Anna is a Registered Psychologist who is passionate about supporting individuals so they may best support their families. She has a particular interest in adjustments and understands that parenthood and each new child can bring about profound changes in capacity, identity and couple/family dynamics.

Rebekah is a warm, experienced, and compassionate practitioner dedicated to supporting clients during difficult times using evidence-informed interventions. Rebekah has a particular passion for supporting women to understand, prioritise, and assert their needs.

Shannon is a Registered Psychologist with a Master of Clinical Psychology.

Amanda is a registered psychologist with over 20 years of experience in the arenas of mental health, general psychology, neurodivergence, and disability.

Julia is a naturally empathic and warm Clinical Psychologist with over 10 years experience working in both public and private practice across Sydney.

Libby is a Clinical Psychologist with a passion for working with mothers during the earliest years of transition to motherhood - the perinatal phase.

Rachel is a Clinical Psychologist who has worked with clients throughout the lifespan and who present with a vast array of challenges.

Marije Vrieze is a registered psychologist who has worked with children, adults and families for over 20 years.

Radmila is a Registered Psychologist with over 12 years of experience in perinatal mental health. She has worked in a perinatal setting where she has supported families with individual, couple and group treatments.

Maria is an experienced mental health social worker based in Sydney with over 20 years experience. She is dedicated to providing compassionate and effective therapy.

Kayla is a Psychologist, originally from South Africa, who completed her MSc in Health Psychology (UK) in 2020. Kayla is passionate about women’s mental health and wellbeing and has a particular interest in perinatal mental health.