Meet Michelle

Dr Michelle Cranston is a highly experienced and authentically compassionate psychologist who has been providing gold-standard care in private practice since 2007. Originally based in Melbourne, Australia, Michelle relocated to beautiful Noosa Heads in 2024, proudly continuing to support clients throughout Australia via telehealth.

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Philosophy

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Michelle is committed to providing clients with the highest quality of care to help people live a more full, meaningful, connected, calm, and joyous life. She is honoured by the trust her clients place in her to care for their mental health and overall quality of life.

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Michelle is passionate about creating an emotionally safe therapeutic environment instilled with warmth, attunement, curiosity, appropriate humour, and authentic care - helping people feel genuinely heard, understood, cared for, and respected.

 

The relationship with her clients is the most important vessel in helping people grow, develop compassion and insight, heal past traumas / unmet needs, and eventually improve their mental wellbeing and overall quality of life.

Michelle also values collaboration and works closely with your wider treatment team (with your consent), especially when addressing complex conditions such as eating disorders or chronic/severe mental health issues.

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Services, Experience and Education

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Michelle provides thorough assessment, diagnosis, support, and tailored treatment across a broad range of mental health conditions, with extensive expertise in the treatment of all eating disorders. Michelle’s preferred treatment modes are Schema Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), and CBT-E (CBT specially designed for eating disorders).

 

In addition to her general psychology qualifications, Michelle holds a doctoral degree in Sport Psychology and undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Sport Science.

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She has completed Levels 1, 2, and 3 Schema Therapy qualifications and has undertaken extensive training on using schema therapy specifically for eating disorder treatment. Currently, she is completing the final stages of the Advanced Schema Therapist Certification—an elite credential held by only a small number of psychologists in Australia. This process will further enhance her unique skills in the treatment and management of eating disorders, trauma, personality difficulties, chronic / complex depression and anxiety and relationship issues.

 

For this certification, Michelle is mentored by two of the world’s most respected schema therapy trainers: Dr Rob Brockman, who is president of the International Schema Therapy Society, and Dr Susan Simpson, who is renowned for her research and clinical expertise using schema therapy for eating disorder treatment.

 

Michelle is a member of the ISST (International Society of Schema Therapy), holds clinician certification from ANZAED (Australian and New Zealand Academy for Eating Disorders), is registered with HAES (Health At Every Size), and is an associate member of the APS (Australian Psychological Society).

 

Michelle is committed to staying up-to-date with the most recent scientific treatment approaches, through regularly attending conferences, workshops, and collegial mentoring / supervision and other professional development opportunities.