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THERAPY, CONSULTING, MENTORING & TRAINING

 

CFIA

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CFIA INTAKE FORM

TO BE COMPLETED BY ALL CLIENTS PRIOR TO MAKING PAYMENT

FIND FEE & CANCELLATION POLICY BELOW

Do any of the following apply to you?
Preferred Session Format
Preferred Day (PM ONLY)
By signing this document and selecting “Yes,” I authorise CFIA Consulting to process a weekly direct debit in the amount of $155.00 every Friday for the upcoming week’s session or a fortnightly debit in the amount of $155.00 every second Friday.
Yes
No

Payments are non-refundable and non-transferable, and missed sessions without explanation may result in the time slot being offered to the next person on the waiting list due to limited availability.

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WEEKLY SESSION FEE

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Fees & Cancellation Policy
 

  • Sessions are AUD $155 per 50-minute appointment.

  • Payments are processed via direct debit each Friday for the following week’s session.

  • Clients attending fortnightly will be debited fortnightly on a Friday for the upcoming session.

  • All fees are non-refundable and non-transferable, so please choose your session time carefully to support consistency.

  • Declined payments will result in cancellation of the session and release of the appointment to the waiting list. Due to limited availability, flexibility around missed or unpaid sessions is not available.

FORTNIGHTLY SESSION FEE

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Professional Profile - Kathryn Vella (Principal Psychologist)
 

I'm a Clinical Forensic Psychologist with nearly three decades of experience across criminal justice, complex mental health, and medico-legal systems. My career commenced within the Crimes Unit of the New South Wales Police in 1997 and has progressed through investigative practice, advanced clinical training, psychiatric-oriented supervision, and doctoral research in Germany & Colorado.
 

I am completing my PhD in Psychology (Psychiatry and Law), alongside a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) and a Master of Clinical Psychopharmacology. This integrated triad positions my work at the law–psychiatry interface, grounded in a structured, ethically rigorous framework that keeps clients central to care while advancing interdisciplinary standards of practice.
 

My clinical work is informed by neuroscience, psychiatry, and forensic systems analysis. I provide evidence-based psychotherapy, complex trauma intervention, medico-legal assessment, and forensic discourse analysis in high-risk and court-involved matters.


Clinical Leadership & Academic Development

  • Clinical Lead and Case Coordinator for complex and litigation-involved matters

  • Establishment of multidisciplinary care teams for high-risk, system-involved cases

  • Ongoing mentorship of psychology students and early-career clinicians

  • Continuous supervised training from undergraduate study through advanced clinical and doctoral research (9000+ clinical hours)


My professional formation is cumulative and deliberately structured, integrating frontline criminal justice experience with formal academic training, sustained supervision, and advanced clinical practice.


Core Practice Framework

  • Trauma-informed intervention

  • Neurodivergence-informed assessment and treatment

  • Coercive control and forensic discourse analysis

  • Court-informed therapeutic strategy

  • Medico-legal reporting and expert documentation

  • Psychopharmacological integration within psychological care

  • Complex systems formulation across mental health and legal domains
     

Disclosure

Due to the forensic and legal contexts in which I practice, much of my work is subject to confidentiality, suppression, and statutory privacy provisions. Public case disclosure is therefore necessarily limited.

 

"You cannot discover new horizons until you have the courage to leave the shore. Real growth begins when we step into the unknown."

— André Gide

Trauma. Complexity. Clarity. Reparation
 

Specialised therapeutic and forensic services for individuals and legal professionals navigating high-complexity psychological and legal matters.
 

For individuals seeking therapy, whether for focused short-term support or deeply layered and complex trauma, including coercive control, neurodivergence, post-diagnosis integration, psychological layering, and career development, this is a practice grounded in depth, clarity, solution focused, and structured care that enables sessions to be tailored to your needs, getting the outcomes you want and maximising sustained well-being.

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— Cathy Malchiodi

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