Our Teachers
Dianne Clement
B. Educational Studies, Post Grad Dip (Special Needs), Certificate of Teaching
Learning Support Teacher
Dianne has over 40 years experience teaching in primary schools in Brisbane and North Queensland, working for the past twenty years as a learning support teacher in country and city schools. For the past nine years, she has established a school-based learning centre and team in collaboration with a special education unit at a very large primary school which catered for most students with special needs ranging from physical impairments, intellectual impairments, speech-language impairments, visual and hearing impairments to AD/HD to ASD. Dianne is passionate about teaching children with learning difficulties and helping every child acquire their basic academic skills and confidence to extend and apply these skills into all areas of the curriculum.
Our Educational Psychologists
Philip Gosschalk MAPS
BA, GradDipEd, MEdSt, PGDipPsych, MPsychClin
Director & Psychologist (Clinical & Educational)
Philip is the Director of childpsych. He is a full member of the College of Clinical Psychologists and College of Educational & Developmental Psychologists. He has extensive experience with children as a teacher, school psychologist and child psychologist. Philip has advanced training in clinical psychology and education. His particular expertise is with the treatment of anxiety and mood disorders in children and adolescents, assessment of learning and developmental problems and the management of behaviour problems. He has conducted research on the nature of anxiety and personality in children and published research about children who refuse to attend school because of anxiety.
Lisa Lynn MAPS
BBehSc, BPsych(Hons), MPsych(Ed&Dev)
Psychologist
Lisa specialises in the area of developmental psychology and educational psychology. She studied psychology as a mature age student where she took a strong interest in the mental health problems of children as well as the learning problems in children. Lisa has worked with children-in-care, children with autism and general developmental problems of childhood. In addition, Lisa specialises in assessing children with learning problems and is interested in the learning and developmental problems of children born premature.