Vicki Nightingale

Vicki is an independent Registered Psychologist with almost 25 years experience. She has worked in private practice settings and in Community Mental Health along with a Special Needs Service and has extensive experience in working with children, adolescents, families, and adults across the lifespan with a person-centred approach. She has worked in Canberra in private practice as well as rural and remote centres in Far West NSW and the Central West NSW, and has a lived experience with the challenges of farming, particularly in drought.

Vicki is a member of both the Australian Association of Psychologists Inc (AAPi) and the Australian Psychological Society (APS) and was a Committee Member for the Western NSW Region Branch of the APS. She is also a Psychology Board approved Psychology Supervisor. She has expertise in a range evidence-based psychological treatment models such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Family Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy, Brief Solution Focused Therapy, Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT), Mindfulness, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (TFCBT), Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Eye Movement Desensitisation & Reprocessing (EMDR). Vicki is also Internationally Accredited in USA in Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) which is a program for family or friends of a loved one with a substance problem. In Australia, it is also known as the Family Empowerment Program (FEP) and she has been involved in research with Charles Sturt University in this program with positive outcomes for participants and their loved ones.

Vicki is passionate about assisting people who have been recently diagnosed with a serious health condition or chronic health problems, as well as good self-care. She takes a strengths-based approach and specialises in depression and bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders, stress, low self-esteem, adult ADHD, workplace difficulties, trauma, adjustment disorders, anger management, interpersonal difficulties as well as grief and loss.