Molly Priest

Registered Psychologist

Molly is a psychologist with over 15 years of counselling experience, working with adults, adolescents, and families. She offers a culturally informed and flexible approach, drawing on different ways of communicating including non-verbal and symbolic speech, to meet each person where they are.

Molly has extensive experience supporting people who are neurodiverse, culturally and linguistically diverse, D/deaf, disabled, and LGBTQIA+. She is passionate about helping people expand their capacity for experience, deepen self-understanding, and connect with a sense of authenticity and meaning.

For over 20 years, Molly has practiced meditation and yoga, which continues to inspire her interest in somatic and mindfulness-based therapies, as well as body-focused approaches to healing trauma. Her background in philosophy and art also shapes her work, bringing curiosity and creativity to her understanding of diverse human experiences.

She is skilled and experienced in the following therapeutic approaches:

• Narrative Therapy
• Existential Therapy
• Psychotherapy
• Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
• Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)
• Parts Work (Schema and Internal Family Systems)
• Somatic and body-focused practice
• Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• Mindfulness and meditation

Her areas of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Exploring purpose, identity and meaning
• Trauma and post-traumatic stress
• Somatic symptoms and chronic pain
• Anxiety, OCD, health anxiety, and panic
• Addiction and substance use
• Relationship difficulties
• Depression and anhedonia
• Autism and ADHD
• Mindfulness and meditation skills