Our team Elie Walsh
Psychologist and Clinical Neuropsychology Registrar, working with children, adolescents, adults and athletes.
About Elie
About
Elie is a registered psychologist completing the registrar programme in clinical neuropsychology.
Elie holds general registration as a psychologist and has completed postgraduate training in clinical neuropsychology. She is now undertaking the Psychology Board of Australia's registrar programme, the final stage before area of practice endorsement, which sets a defined period of advanced practice, supervision and professional development in the specialty. Registrars see clients in their own right, and cases are discussed with our senior clinical neuropsychologists as part of that programme.
She is particularly interested in helping people understand how their own thinking works, and in using that understanding to support recovery, everyday functioning and performance. Her interests centre on concussion and sport, sleep and circadian health, child and adolescent development, and rehabilitation and therapy after a brain injury. Her doctoral research at Monash University examined sleep and circadian rhythms, mental health and performance in athletes.
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Areas of practice
What Elie works with
Elie provides neuropsychological assessment, cognitive rehabilitation and psychological therapy for children, adolescents and adults, across the range of conditions the clinic sees. Her particular interests are:
- Concussion, and sport at every level. Assessment and management after concussion, including symptoms that persist and a graded return to school, work and sport. For athletes, this extends to baseline and exit assessment, cognitive performance, mental health and sustainable performance. Elie's doctoral work was carried out with elite Australian sporting teams, and she has delivered mental health programmes for young athletes, their parents and their coaches.
- Sleep and circadian health. How the timing and regularity of sleep affect attention, memory, mood, recovery and performance, and what can practically be changed. This is the subject of Elie's doctoral research, and it matters well beyond sport: after a brain injury, in ADHD and other neurodevelopmental conditions, and alongside anxiety and low mood.
- Child and adolescent development. Assessment of ADHD, autism, learning difficulties and difficulties with attention and executive functioning, drawing on information from home and school, and working with parents and teachers to put the recommendations into practice.
- Brain injury and cognitive rehabilitation. Assessment and goal-based rehabilitation after an acquired brain injury, with practical strategies for memory, attention, planning and fatigue developed with the person and the people around them. Elie has worked in inpatient and community brain injury rehabilitation and in hospital neuropsychiatry.
- Therapy and adjustment. Psychological therapy for anxiety, low mood, stress and adjustment, including the adjustment that follows a neurological injury, a new diagnosis, or a change in what someone is able to do.
As a registrar, Elie's clinical neuropsychology practice sits within a structured programme of advanced practice and supervision, so her assessments have the benefit of a second experienced clinician's perspective.
Approach
How Elie works
Elie works collaboratively, and aims to make assessment and therapy practical, individual and straightforward to understand. She works around each person's strengths, goals and circumstances, adjusting pacing, communication and the sensory demands of a session where that helps.
She works with the people around a client as much as with the client: parents, partners and carers, and, with consent, schools, treating teams and coaches. Recommendations are only useful if the people supporting someone can act on them, and much of her research has involved exactly those perspectives alongside the person's own.
Her focus is on strategies that translate into everyday life, so that a report or a course of therapy leads to changes a person can actually sustain at home, at school, at work or in training.
Research
Research and publications
Elie completed her doctoral research at Monash University, developing and piloting an individualised sleep-regularity and circadian-alignment intervention to support mental health and performance, working with elite Australian sporting teams and with a particular interest in female athlete health. Her honours research examined the psychological factors associated with persistent pain after sports injury. She is a research officer at the Monash-Epworth Rehabilitation Research Centre, on research with people who have sustained a moderate to severe traumatic brain injury, their families and their clinicians.
Publications
- Sleep and circadian interventions for mental health, mood and wellbeing in athletes: a systematic review and meta-analysis (under review).
- Reliability of different dynamometers used to measure isometric shoulder strength: a comparative study in 526 adults.
Selected conference presentations
- Impact of an individualised sleep regularity and circadian alignment intervention in athletes (SCIMA) on sleep and mental health outcomes. Global Alliance of Mental Health in Sports, 2025.
- A new framework for conceptualising mental health in sport: athletes' perceptions and experience. Global Alliance of Mental Health in Sports, 2025.
- Sleep regularity and circadian alignment intervention for improving mental health in athletes (SCIMA): study protocol. Australian Chronobiology Society and Sleep Down Under, 2024.
- Sleep and circadian interventions for mental health in athletes: a systematic review. Sleep Down Under, 2023.
Elie has also supervised honours research on digital sleep interventions and athlete mental health, has taught in psychological assessment, human neuropsychology and biological psychology at Monash University, and has delivered mental health literacy programmes for young athletes, their parents and their coaches. Her publication record is listed at ORCID 0000-0002-5017-4434.
Where you will find Elie
Services Elie contributes to
Her interests are concentrated in these services. She also works across the clinic's wider assessment and therapy services for children, adolescents and adults.
Concussion & post-concussion
Assessment and recovery support when concentration, memory or return to school, work or sport is taking longer than expected.
Learn more →Brain injury & stroke
Neuropsychological assessment and cognitive rehabilitation after an acquired brain injury.
Learn more →Child & adolescent assessment
Assessment where autism, ADHD, learning or attention is the question, for children and adolescents.
Learn more →Psychological therapy
Therapy for anxiety, low mood, stress and adjustment, for children, young people and adults.
Learn more →Where more than one question is involved, for example attention, mood and sleep after a concussion, the assessment is planned to cover them together.
Qualifications & registration
Training and registration
- Doctoral training in clinical neuropsychology at Monash University, researching sleep, circadian rhythms and mental health in athletes
- Bachelor of Psychology with first-class honours, Griffith University, and recipient of the Griffith University Medal of Achievement
- Registered psychologist with AHPRA (registration number PSY0002723590), completing the Board-approved registrar programme towards area of practice endorsement in clinical neuropsychology
- Clinical training across public hospital neuropsychiatry, inpatient and community acquired brain injury rehabilitation, and a university paediatric assessment clinic
- Research officer at the Monash-Epworth Rehabilitation Research Centre, and sessional teaching in neuropsychology and psychological assessment at Monash University
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