Supportive Psychology for Women and Girls in the Greater Geelong Area
Our Services
Providing clinical support and professional supervision face-to-face in the Geelong region, and Australia wide via online telehealth services.
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Wildflower Psychology offers supportive, down-to-earth therapy for girls and women who are struggling with their everyday life. Therapy is a place to make sense of what’s going on, and find ways to feel more steady and supported.
Children & Adolescents
Wildflower Psychology works with girls and teens who may be experiencing a wide range of difficulties, which could include anxiety, low mood, big emotions, worries, friendship difficulties, low confidence, school stress, or feeling overwhelmed. Sessions are age-appropriate and supportive, helping young people build coping skills in a fun and practical way, understanding their feelings, and feel more confident — with family involvement when helpful.Adults
For adult women, therapy can support a wide range of difficulties, including anxiety, depression, burnout, stress, relationship challenges, life transitions, parenting stress, self-esteem, and emotional regulation. Sessions are collaborative, practical, and paced to you, focusing on both insight and tools you can use in everyday life. -
Girls often learn, think, and cope in ways that don’t always fit traditional expectations — which means their strengths and challenges can be easily overlooked or misunderstood. Our cognitive and academic assessments are designed to better understand how your child learns, reasons, and problem-solves in ways that are unique to them.
Using engaging, age-appropriate tools, we can explore thinking skills, memory, attention, problem-solving, reading, writing, and maths, alongside behaviour and emotional factors that can impact learning. These assessments can help identify learning differences (such as dyslexia and dysgraphia), giftedness, or more subtle difficulties that may show up as anxiety, perfectionism, and school can’t.
Families receive a clear, strengths-based report with practical recommendations for school and home — helping your child feel understood, supported, and confident in how they learn best.
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Attention-Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder and autism often present differently in girls and women (AFAB) and non-binary people, which means many are overlooked, misunderstood, or diagnosed later in life. Masking, internalised anxiety, people-pleasing, emotional overwhelm, and exhaustion are common experiences — not because something is ‘wrong’, but because these neurotypes have not always been recognised or supported in ways that best suits them.
Our assessments take a neuroaffirming, strengths-based approach, centred on understanding lived experience, identity, and individual needs.
Girls and Teens
Our child and adolescent assessments use a comprehensive, collaborative approach that includes the voice of the child or teen, family insights, school input, and evidence-based assessment tools. We explore areas such as attention, executive functioning, emotional regulation, social communication, sensory experiences, and the impact of masking and expectations placed on girls.
Families receive a clear, affirming report with practical recommendations to support wellbeing, learning, and self-understanding at home and school — helping girls feel seen, supported, and confident in who they are.
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Adult Women
Our adult assessments are collaborative, reflective, and deeply validating. We explore lifelong patterns of attention, executive functioning, emotional regulation, sensory processing, relationships, identity, and the impact of masking across work, study, and personal life.
You will receive a clear, strengths-based report with practical, affirming recommendations to support self-advocacy, accommodations, and wellbeing. For many, the process brings clarity, relief, and a kinder understanding of your own story.
Important note:
Psychologists are unable to prescribe medication for ADHD treatment. If this is something you are interested in pursuing, we suggest first seeking an appointment with a medical professional (paediatrician, psychiatrist). -
Wildflower Psychology offers clinical supervision as a board-approved supervisor, providing a supportive and practical space for clinicians to reflect, build skills, and grow in confidence. Supervision is collaborative and down-to-earth, with a focus on ethical practice, clinical thinking, and working sustainably in real-world settings.
Whether you’re working toward registration, maintaining endorsement, or simply wanting a space to think and refine your work, supervision is tailored to your goals and professional stage.
Hi, I’m Tesni!
I'm a clinical psychologist, mum to one daughter, born and bred Geelong-ian and founder of Wildflower Psychology.
I am a big animal lover and enjoy nothing more than a top-tier almond latte or dipping my feet in the ocean.
I have over 15 years of experience working across a number of public and private settings, and have a Master of Clinical Psychology. I am also a Board Approved Supervisor.
I have a special interest in supporting school-aged girls with school-based and developmental concerns, as well as women navigating the many transitions and challenges that life can bring.
My goal is to provide neurodiversity, disability, trauma, gender-inclusive and LGBTQIA+ affirming care.
Sessions are currently available on Thursdays within business hours.
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I see school aged girls, adult women and non-binary people. My special interests are school-based difficulties including learning, behaviour, emotion regulation and attendance. I also have a special interest in supporting neurodivergent girls.
Additionally, I have interest working with women who require support with many life transitions, from infertility, pregnancy, and parenting, adjustment and trauma, anxiety, depression, and burn out.
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Girls and women often present differently, are more likely to be overlooked, and benefit most from support that is thoughtfully tailored to their unique needs. I am deeply committed to this area of work and have intentionally developed my practice to provide specialised, informed care in this space.
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Absolutely! My preference is to have a quick chat on the phone to make sure I am able to provide you with the best support and make sure you feel it is a good fit.
Contact me here and we can organise a time to talk.
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