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Natalie Solomon

Clinical Psychologist

Natalie is a Clinical Psychologist with more than 20 years of experience working with children, adolescents, adults, parents, and families. She brings warmth, curiosity, and depth to her clinical work, supporting people through emotional difficulties, relationship challenges, periods of transition, and the complexities that can arise at different stages of life.

Natalie believes that effective therapy begins with understanding the individual. Rather than taking a one-size-fits-all approach, she draws thoughtfully from a range of therapeutic frameworks, including psychodynamic and attachment-based approaches and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), tailoring therapy to each person’s needs, circumstances, and goals.

She offers both short- and longer-term individual therapy. Across her career, Natalie has worked in diverse clinical settings, including public mental health services, educational environments, and inpatient and outpatient services. This breadth of experience has shaped a nuanced understanding of psychological wellbeing across the lifespan and of the family, relational, educational, and social systems within which people live.

Central to Natalie’s approach is the therapeutic relationship. She believes that feeling genuinely heard, understood, and accepted provides an important foundation for meaningful psychological change. Her style is collaborative and strengths-based, helping clients develop greater insight into themselves and their relationships, recognise existing capacities, build resilience, and find more effective ways of navigating life’s challenges.

Natalie brings a deep respect for the complexity of being human to her work. She recognises that vulnerability, uncertainty, loss, change, and questions of identity and belonging are part of the human experience. She aims to provide a warm, thoughtful, and non-judgmental therapeutic space where clients can speak openly, develop greater self-understanding and self-compassion, and explore patterns that may no longer be serving them.

Her approach balances professional knowledge and clinical experience with genuine human connection. Clients often experience Natalie as warm, authentic, perceptive, and intuitive, with an ability to hold both the difficulties they are facing and the strengths and possibilities they bring to therapy.

Natalie completed her Doctorate in 2004. Her academic publications include The Social Construction of HIV/AIDS (Health SA Gesondheid, 2003) and Meaning Making of a Group of South Africans in their Experience of Living with HIV: A Phenomenological Study (Health SA Gesondheid, 2005).

Areas of Special Interest

Natalie has particular interest and experience in:

  • Anxiety and Depression
  • Adjustment and life transitions
  • Personal growth and self-understanding
  • Parenting and family relationships
  • Child and adolescent wellbeing
  • Relationship concerns
  • Loss, bereavement, and grief
  • Developmental and attachment trauma
  • Perinatal anxiety and depression
  • Mindfulness and self-compassion
  • Identity, meaning, and existential concerns

Availability

Natalie offers in-person and Telehealth consultations from the McKinnon location on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays.