About Dr Marta Garcia de Blakeley

I am originally from Argentina, and I have lived in Australia for almost 2 decades. I consult in English and Spanish.

I practice from a “bio-psycho-social-spiritual-cultural” model. This means, I believe it is the combination of many factors that makes us who we are and that contribute to our current strengths and distresses. These constitute conscious and unconscious factors that condition our responses to life circumstances and stressors, our relationships to others, and very importantly, to ourselves.

I believe in collaboration and the inner strength and resilience of all people to actively participate in shaping meaning for their own lives.

I am interested in psychotherapy and in teaching. I work in private practice as a clinical psychologist. I also supervise students in the Master of Clinical Psychology at Griffith University, and am a sessional lecturer at The University of Queensland, teaching on cross-cultural psychotherapy in the Psychology and Counselling postgraduate program.

Research and Practice Interests

• The role of culture and language in psychological distress and coping

• The role of culture and language in cross cultural and cross lingual psychotherapy

• “Second Language anxiety” and its impact on personal development

Qualifications and registrations

• Registration as a Psychologist with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)

• Endorsement as a Clinical Psychologist with AHPRA

• Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Psychology, Griffith University

• Bachelor of Psychology with Honours, Griffith University

• Diploma of Counselling, Christian Heritage College

Affiliations

• Member of Australian Association of Psychologists (AAPi)

• Member of the Society for Psychological Research

• Member of the Society for Psychological Research Europe and Latin America divisions.