Kerry Schilling, AASW

Kerry Schilling offers calm, practical support for people dealing with stress, anxiety and life changes. She focuses on helping clients improve relationships, build self-esteem and manage career pressures. Kerry writes simply and listens closely to understand what matters to each person.

Kerry is an Australian Association of Social Workers member (AASW) and has seven years in dedicated therapeutic roles. She also holds a Master’s degree in Social Work and an Honours degree in Psychology earned in Scotland. Her background includes work in government and not-for-profit settings where she supported people facing mental health concerns, trauma and workplace issues.

Her style is person-centred and strengths-based. That means she starts by listening and helping people find what already helps them. She uses clear, practical strategies tailored to individual goals rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.

Kerry draws on several evidence-informed approaches as needed, including cognitive and behavioural techniques, skills from dialectical behaviour approaches, and solution-focused methods. She also uses relationship work inspired by the Gottman method when that fits the client’s aims.

As a parent herself, she understands how family demands and daily pressures can make it hard to focus on wellbeing. Kerry aims to create a warm, non-judgemental space where people can make small, manageable changes. She helps clients build coping skills, increase self-awareness and take steps towards clearer priorities and greater confidence.

How Kerry's approaches translate to online support

Kerry commonly uses client-centred work, cognitive behavioural techniques and elements of dialectical behaviour therapy. Client-centred work focuses on listening closely and tailoring each session to the person's needs, which helps when people want to feel heard and understood. Cognitive behavioural therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions connect, and it offers practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. Dialectical behaviour approaches teach skills for managing intense emotions, improving tolerance of distress and building interpersonal effectiveness.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Kerry will discuss your goals and preferences and adapt methods to suit what you want to achieve. Together you can try different strategies and settle on the ones that feel most useful for your situation.

If you are considering online sessions, please confirm the available session formats before booking because they are not specified here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also lets people use exercises and worksheets between meetings, so progress continues outside scheduled sessions. Appropriately qualified therapists can offer the same thoughtful, person-centred care online as in person when the approach fits the concern.