Sunali Lewis

Sunali is a caring and empathic clinical psychologist who seeks to understand each client’s unique situation, and then in collaboration identify suitable strategies to assist. She uses evidence based practice tailored to suit individual needs, to find a path through difficulties and towards personal growth. She is passionate about making a difference to people’s lives. 

Qualifications

Sunali completed her Bachelor of Science (Psychology) with honours at UNSW, then spent many years as a finance analyst before her desire to help people brought her back to her first love, psychology. She subsequently completed a Master of Brain and Mind science from the University of Sydney, and a Master of Clinical Psychology from the Australian College of Applied Psychology. 

Experience

Sunali has run psychiatric inpatient and external groups on a range of topics and facilitated mindfulness and social anxiety programs and a Hearing Voices group based on the program by Debra Lampshire.

In her therapy, Sunali has training in and uses techniques from Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), and Schema Therapy. For PTSD and other trauma processing she is trained in EMDR, imagery rescripting, and cognitive processing therapy, and will integrate this with other modalities as appropriate. She is an Accredited Practitioner with EMDRAA (EMDR Association of Australia) and a Certified Individual Schema Therapist (International Society of Schema Therapy). 

Sunali is experienced in working with gender diversity and is LGBTIQA+, and sex worker friendly.