Kylie Pettit is a Mental Health Social Worker who provides group and individual counselling for children, young people, adults and their families. Kylie’s approach is grounded in partnership and strengths-based principals, acknowledging each person for their strengths and expertise in their own life. Kylie finds applying the notion of a therapeutic team within the therapeutic relationship to be extremely empowering for the people she works with. Kylie adapts her approach to meet people’s individual needs in consideration of each person’s unique experiences and treatment goals.

Kylie specialises in mood disorders, eating disorders, attachment and trauma, identity conflicts, relationship issues, peri-natal issues, suicidal and self-harming thoughts and behaviours. Kylie draws on several treatment approaches which can include but are not limited to trauma-informed, cognitive and dialectical behavioural therapies, and both short term and long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy approaches.

Kylie is a highly reflective practitioner who has evolved over the past eight years. Kylie has developed her skills through working within the Tasmanian education system in positions which have included school social work, senior social work for attendance and retention. Kylie has also worked in the youth mental health sector as a private allied health professional in both Tasmania and Queensland. Kylie is passionate about building the capacity of others, providing mentoring and professional supervision services to others within the social work field. Kylie is also a mentor within the Monash University Alumni Mentoring Network and works for the University of Southern Queensland as an academic marker, supporting the learning of undergraduate students.

Kylie is currently working towards her clinical accreditation with the Australian Association of Social Workers and is an accredited Medicare provider as a Mental Health Social Worker. Kylie has a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work and a post-graduate degree in a Master of Mental Health Science, specialising in Child Psychotherapy.