The Tonic Psychology Team
Meet our psychologists
Here at Tonic Psychology, we aim to provide an environment that exudes safety and ensures comfortability. We want you to be able to freely express yourself, without fear of judgement or condemnation, and that’s where our exceptional team comes in. Coming from a diverse range of backgrounds, and with a diverse set of life experience, our multilingual team endeavour to provide our clients with culturally and socially appropriate services. We use a variety of research and evidence-based methods, techniques, and strategies to help you get to where you’re going. This client-based approach is a philosophy that we strive to follow every day, and it’s through this philosophy that we truly get to connect with our clients. So scroll on down, and meet the Tonic Psychology team!
Lynda Knell
Lynda is a Senior Generalist Psychologist with 15 years experience. She has a warm and encouraging approach with clients and is very person centred.
Christina King
Christina has a focus on person-centred approaches, treating each person respectfully as an individual human being, and not just as a condition to be treated.
Ryan William McKenzie
Ryan is a registered psychologist with a gentle, empathetic person-centred style working with clients. Ryan has a calm, reflective personality and a focus on promoting client self-efficacy.
Sakina Deen
Sakina is a professional General Psychologist based at Tonic Psychology in Sydney. With an innate passion for interpersonal relationships and a deep curiosity about the human experience, being in this profession gives her great joy to provide a non judgemental platform for the client and for being able to make a positive difference in their journey.
Claudie Larose
Claudie is a professional General Psychologist based at Tonic Psychology in Parramatta Sydney. She brings a calm and gentle approach, having worked successfully to help clients adjust to the many challenges that life brings.
Sarah Serifovski
Sarah's approach to therapy is holistic, fostering a safe and collaborative environment that promotes understanding and growth.
Amanda Kuek
Amanda works closely and intentionally with clients to focus on key areas for sustainable long term change.
Erin Schibli
Erin is a warm and non-judgemental Provisional Psychologist who aims to support clients in safely exploring their challenges.
Jinal Davda
Jinal is warm, empathetic, and a person-centered psychologist and has an experience in working with adults and young adults in a collaborative way.
Holly Ratajec
Holly is a friendly and warm clinician with a gentle and person-centered approach to therapy. She uses trauma informed and evidence based methods to work collaboratively with her clients to reach their therapy goals.
Jodie Pitruzzello
Jodie takes a client-centred approach to help individuals understand themselves and their lives better, by using creative expression.
Carla De Goes
From Brazil, Carla De Goes is a passionate General Psychologist here in Australia. She has experience working as a clinical and health psychologist in private practice and medical settings supporting clients with different types of presentations.
Sian Brown
Sian is a warm, empathetic, and approachable general psychologist, whose primary therapeutic focus is the relationship that she forms with her clients. Sian is a person-centred therapist and has a strong appreciation for the uniqueness of each client.
Tuan Anh (Michael) Phung
Michael is a dedicated and meticulous General Psychologist. Michael graduated from Monash University for his undergraduate and studied postgrad at the Institute of Social Neuroscience.
Mariana Ferraz
Originally from Brazil, Mariana is a Melbourne Senior Provisional Psychologist who is fluent in both English and Portuguese. She is a passionate, open-minded and empathetic provisional psychologist who enjoys listening to clients' life stories and being part of their difficult times.