Dr Nicole Canin is a PhD qualified psychologist with eighteen years of clinical experience. Nicole graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa) with first class Honours in Psychology in 2003. She continued with postgraduate study and became a fully registered psychologist in 2006. For the last ten years, she has focused on providing therapy support to families with babies and young children.
Nicole was trained in Newborn Behavioural Observation, an approach she has used to support families with their infants. Nicole conducted this work in private practice and in community settings including Kangaroo Care Wards for premature babies.
Nicole is passionate about supporting parents through their experience of pregnancy and parenthood. She recognises that attempting to become a parent can be painful and challenging, with stress, trauma and loss often colouring many parts of the journey.
Nicole’s extensive training enables her to address issues such as antenatal and postnatal anxiety and depression; birth-related stress or trauma and difficulties with bonding. Nicole supports parents who have struggled to fall pregnant or who have lost babies. She also supports parents who are trying to make decisions regarding ending or continuing with a pregnancy when a fetal diagnosis has been made.
As a parent-child psychotherapist (working with 1 to 5 year old children) Nicole promotes sensitive caregiving by helping parents to understand the developmental capacities and vulnerabilities of their children. She offers tailored parental guidance, helping parents to recognise their children’s needs, communication and behaviour. In many cases, minor adjustments in parenting can contribute enormously towards a child’s emerging self-esteem and emotional regulation capacities. Nicole also has an interest in supporting parents of premature babies to navigate the often challenging start to parenthood.
Her treatment approach is collaborative and uniquely tailored to her client’s needs. Where required (and with consent), Nicole liaises with GPs, Psychiatrists, Maternal Child Health Nurses and Paediatricians to ensure the best possible care for her clients.
