Meet Your Clinician
Michele Hill
General Psychologist
About Michele
Warm, Experienced, and Passionate About Supporting Women Through Every Stage of Life
Michele Hill is a General Psychologist based full-time at the Sippy Downs clinic, bringing warmth, clinical depth, and a genuine passion for supporting adults through some of life’s most challenging chapters. While Michele has extensive experience working with both male and female clients supporting them as they navigate through difficult life challenges, she has a particular interest in working with women navigating significant life transitions — whether that is the journey into motherhood, the postpartum period, relationship changes, career shifts, identity questions, or the complex emotional landscape of midlife and beyond.
Perinatal and postnatal mental health is an area Michele finds deeply meaningful. She understands that the transition to parenthood — while often joyful — can also bring profound vulnerability, identity disruption, anxiety, and loss. She provides a safe, non-judgemental space where new and expecting mothers can be honest about what they are experiencing, and receive the skilled, compassionate support they deserve. Her Schema Therapy training adds clinical depth to this work, helping clients understand and shift the deeper patterns that can make this period particularly difficult.
Beyond her focus on women’s wellbeing and perinatal support, Michele genuinely enjoys the variety that comes with a broad and diverse caseload. She works across a wide range of presentations — from anxiety and depression through to personality and mood disorders, trauma, grief, self-esteem, and the challenges of daily life. This breadth keeps her practice stimulating and ensures she brings fresh energy and genuine curiosity to every client she sees.
Therapeutic Approach
Schema Therapy, Evidence-Based Frameworks, and a Deeply Person-Centred Approach
Michele draws on a range of evidence-based therapeutic frameworks, always tailoring her approach to the individual in front of her. She is particularly skilled at integrating different modalities to suit the complexity and nuance of each client’s presentation — ensuring therapy feels relevant, grounded, and genuinely helpful.
Areas of Special Interest
What Michele Treats
The Person Behind the Clinician
Michele's Approach to Care
“I am drawn to the moments when a client realises something important about themselves — when the fog lifts a little and they can see a path forward. That is what keeps me doing this work, and why I believe in meeting every person with curiosity, warmth, and genuine care.”
Michele’s warmth is one of the first things clients notice. She creates a therapeutic space that feels genuinely safe — where people can be honest about what they are experiencing without fear of judgement. This quality is particularly important in her perinatal work, where many women carry a quiet shame about not feeling the way they expected to feel, and where being truly heard can itself be transformative.
Her Schema Therapy training reflects her interest in the deeper layers of human experience — the early patterns, beliefs, and coping styles that shape how people relate to themselves and others. This work is not about dwelling in the past, but about understanding it well enough to move forward differently. It is particularly effective for clients who have tried other approaches without lasting change, or who sense that their difficulties run deeper than the surface.
Michele genuinely values the variety in her work. She finds that seeing clients across a broad range of presentations keeps her clinically sharp, curious, and fully present. Whether she is supporting a new mother through postnatal anxiety, helping someone understand a lifelong pattern, or walking alongside a client through grief or burnout, she brings the same quality of attention and care — and the same belief that change is always possible.
