About Me

Raquel is a Psychologist. Her passion for working with people experiencing disordered eating started in 2004 and this has flourished over the last 18 years. She desires to help individuals overcome and disempower their disordered eating through building an individual’s confidence and skills to explore, develop, and incorporate new ways of thinking about their food, weight and shape. Raquel has a special interest in the overlap between:

Anorexia Nervosa and Autism
The overlap between Eating Disorders and Alexithymia
Body Dysmorphic Disorder and Cosmetic Readiness Assessments

She is trained in several eating disorder treatments which include CBT-E, MANTRA, and FBT with Adolescents. She has received training through National Eating Disorders Collaboration (NEDC) training approved supervisors and the Centre for Eating, Weight and Body Image (CEWBI). Raquel is a Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician.

Other training includes EMDR, Collaborative Practice, Alcohol and Other Drug Use, Life Skills for Special Populations, and Trauma Informed Care. Raquel is also a trained Fitness Instructor and understands the principles of Life-Enhancing Movement.

Raquel guides her therapeutic approach by the Health At Every Size (HAES) principles of size-inclusivity and being body positive (where every individual is considered unconditionally worthy of respect and care).

Raquel has attended Murdoch University and Edith Cowan University and has also studied abroad. She has been involved with the Australian Defence Force and Corrective Services.

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I offer a friendly and down-to-earth approach to therapy, providing a safe, confidential and non-judgemental

space to talk. With training and experience in the main evidence-based psychotherapies

Australian Health Practitioner and Regulation Agency (AHPRA)

Australian and New Zealand Academy for Eating Disorders (ANZAED)

Health At Every Size (HAES) Australia