Meet Catherine Roberts

Catherine Roberts is a Credentialed Mental Health Nurse and couples and family therapist at Evolving Minds Counselling and Psychology in Menai. With over 28 years of clinical experience across the UK and Australia, she has supported families through many stages of life, including pregnancy and early parenthood, the teenage years and changes in adult relationships.

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Catherine has worked extensively with young people, including four years in a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service in the UK and more recently with a national youth mental health service in Australia. She recognises that when a young person is struggling, the whole family often feels it, and that family relationships can be an important part of support.

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With couples and families, Catherine focuses on the patterns people get caught in: conversations that go in circles, conflict that keeps returning, or distance that has built up over time. Drawing on family systems theory and the Gottman Method, she helps people see those patterns clearly and find practical ways to change them.

Catherine has a particular interest in perinatal mental health. She supports parents and couples through pregnancy and the months after birth, including anxiety, changes in mood, birth trauma, and the shifts in identity and relationships that come with a new baby.

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She also works with children and adolescents with ADHD and autism, supporting emotional regulation, communication and challenges that can arise at school, at home and with friends.

Catherine works with people experiencing eating disorders and can involve family members where appropriate, helping them understand what is happening and how to offer support.

Catherine’s style is calm, warm and practical. Sessions are a space to slow down, be heard and work out what would help.

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Areas of Interest

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• Couples counselling and relationships

• Family therapy and parenting support

• Perinatal mental health

• Adolescents and young people

• ADHD and autism

• Eating disorders

• Trauma and stress-related difficulties

Catherine offers in-person appointments at the Menai practice and works with clients across the Sutherland Shire, including Bangor, Illawong, Alfords Point and surrounding areas, as well as the neighbouring St George area. She also works with clients online across Australia.

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You can explore the Conditions We Work With page to learn more about the areas addressed in therapy.

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To arrange an appointment with Catherine, please call 02 8519 4197 or click on the button below to access our online request form.