Dr Monique Steen, PhD, MAPS

Monique is a registered Clinical Psychologist with 15 years experience working in private, public and community mental health settings. Over the years, Monique has provided psychological treatment to adults with a wide range of clinical presentations within outpatient public and inpatient private hospital settings (including on an acute OCD ward), as well as within community mental health settings and private practice. Monique has also provided psychological treatment to children (3 years and above) and adolescents with a broad range of presenting problems in community mental health, school settings, and private practice. 

Monique’s approach is warm, collaborative, compassionate, and non-judgemental. Monique provides goal-oriented, outcome driven, and feedback informed psychological treatment, using evidence-based therapeutic interventions including:

  • Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)

  • Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)

  • Mindfulness, Acceptance (ACT) and Compassion based therapies

  • Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)

  • Positive Psychology

Monique currently provides psychology services to adults and adolescents with a broad range of mental health difficulties, including:

  • Mood disorders (depression, bipolar disorder)

  • Anxiety disorders (generalised anxiety, health anxiety, social anxiety)

  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

  • Phobias

  • Postnatal difficulties

  • Tics / Tourette syndrome

  • Adjustment disorder

  • General stress and life transitions

  • Grief and loss