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Meet Your Practitioner - Frederica Robinson

​Specialty practice areas

  • Over 30 years professional experience

  • Protects and empowers the vulnerable

  • Supports and counsels through adjustment to change

  • Meets you "where you're at" without judgement or bias

  • Helps you to achieve chosen goals and life direction

  • Supports individuals, couples, families and school-aged children 

  • Grief and bereavement counselling

  • Specialist palliative care counselling

  • Engages respectfully in line with evidence-based practice

  • Helps identify solutions to unmet needs and concerns

  • Empowers safe and healthy decisions in family separation

  • Experience in Family Dispute Resolution (FDR) and mediation

Frederica Robinson, Director

Frederica Robinson, Director

​​​Multi-cultural background

  • Open-minded, but from a conservative upbringing

  • Internationally travelled, exposed to many cultures and worldviews

  • Multicultural Kenyan, Italian and English background, French-educated

  • Speaks fluent English, French and Italian, some Spanish and Kiswahili

  • Life experience has provided valuable insight into challenges of the human condition

  • Comfortably supports Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) client base, working with interpreters when needed or preferred​​

Evidence-based Practitioner

  • Framework: Trauma-informed, Strengths-based and Systems-focused practice

  • Guided by Humanistic, Psychodynamic, Constructivist and Feminist theories

  • Frederica's practice sits more precisely within the following theories and models:

    • Psychosocial Development Theory​

    • Humanistic and Interpersonal Theories

    • Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

    • Conflict and Trauma Theories

    • Theories on Grief and Loss

    • Mindfulness & Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT)

    • Solution-focused Therapy (SFT)

    • Narrative Therapy

    • Motivational Interviewing (MI)​​​​​​

​"People become empowered
when they feel safe and informed"

Professional Affiliation

  • Accredited clinical member of the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW), guided by established professional ethics and values which demand culturally-responsive, inclusive and evidence-based practice

  • Guided by AASW Code of Ethics (2020), Practice Standards (2023) and Mental Health Practice Standards (2014)

  • Also works as a Clinical Social Worker in the Healthcare sector

Frederica's AASW Credential

Qualifications and Training

  • Graduate Certificate in Bereavement Counselling and Intervention 2023

  • Master of Social Work (MSW)(PQ) 2016

  • Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner (FDRP) 2012

  • Mediation (CofA) 2011

  • Bachelor of Applied Social Sciences (Counselling) 2011

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Frederica engages in ongoing professional development to stay up-to-date and relevant with models of care and supports for the client base.

Thoughtful Connections Pty Ltd

T: (+61) 0490 699 874
E: admin@thoughtfulconnections.com.au
Mount Gravatt Qld 4122
ABN 82674747678

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AASW Code of Ethics (2020)

AASW Practice Standards (2023)

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