Our team of caregivers give Personalized Care

Alex Baxter
Registered Psychologist

Simon Toyne
Provisional Psychologist

Melanie Duncan
Registered Psychologist
Somerville, Box Hill and Kingswood College
Monday and Wednesday
18 years and older for counselling, 7 years and older for assessments
English, Hindi and Punjabi
Clinical Psychologist
Ridhi is a Clinical Psychologist specialising in trauma across the lifespan and diagnostic assessments, providing warm, collaborative, and personalised support informed by her experience in educational and developmental psychology, family violence, correctional settings, and working with children, young people, and adult survivors of trauma.
Ridhi is a Registered Psychologist and is currently completing additional training and supervision to become endorsed as an educational and developmental psychologist through the registrar program.
She is trained in educational and developmental psychology and is interested in working with trauma across the lifespan and completing diagnostic assessments.
Ridhi employs a warm, collaborative, and engaging methodology in her work with clients, fostering a supportive atmosphere for their recovery journey and self-discovery through comprehensive and tailored assessment. Her experience as a provisional psychologist includes working in a correctional setting and the family violence domain, complemented by training at Monash University's Krongold Clinic.
Prior to becoming a psychologist, Ridhi worked in out-of-home care with children and young people and with adult survivors of institutional child sexual abuse.
In her spare time, Ridhi enjoys baking, watching Netflix and going on walks with her dog.
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Ridhi A Malhotra