Our team
Dr Tiffany Gerlich
Clinical Neuropsychologist and Clinical Psychologist, leading our child and adolescent service.
About Tiffany
About
Tiffany leads care for children and young people.
Tiffany holds dual endorsement as a clinical neuropsychologist and a clinical psychologist, which means she brings together two ways of understanding a person: how their thinking and learning work, and how they are feeling and coping. She works with children, adolescents and adults, and she leads the clinic's child and adolescent service.
Families often come to Tiffany with a question about how a child is developing, learning or coping, and want to understand it without the child feeling judged. She is interested in how each child's mind actually works, including where their strengths are, not only where things are hard.
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Areas of focus
What Tiffany works with
Assessment and therapy across childhood, adolescence and adulthood.
- Early childhood development. Assessment of how an infant or young child is developing, using tools designed for the very young such as the Bayley scales.
- Learning and intellectual development. Understanding how a child thinks, learns and problem-solves, using measures such as the WPPSI and WISC, and looking at everyday skills with tools such as the ABAS.
- Behaviour and emotional wellbeing. Making sense of behaviour and emotions that are worrying a family, and what would help.
- Neurodevelopmental assessment. Assessment around autism and ADHD, with a strengths-based, neuroaffirming approach that respects that every brain works a little differently.
- Psychological therapy. Therapy for children, young people and adults, alongside or instead of assessment.
If you are not sure whether your child needs an assessment, therapy, or simply a conversation first, that is fine. We can help you work out the right starting point.
Approach
How Tiffany works
With younger clients, an assessment is built to feel more like an afternoon of activities than an exam, with blocks, puzzles, drawing and conversation. Tiffany works to put children at ease, so what she sees reflects how they really think and feel, not how nervous they are on the day.
Parents and carers are part of the picture throughout. You know your child better than anyone, and Tiffany works with you, explaining what she finds in everyday language and turning it into practical steps for home, school and beyond.
Tiffany has contributed to the validation of the Bayley scales with Pearson Clinical, the developmental assessment used with infants and very young children.
“Every child's mind works a little differently. The point is to understand this one.”
Where Tiffany works
Services Tiffany is part of
You can read more about each of these areas.
Child & adolescent development
Developmental, learning, behavioural and neurodevelopmental assessment for children and young people.
Learn more →Autism & ADHD assessment
Neuroaffirming, strengths-based assessment for children and young people.
Learn more →Psychological therapy
Therapy for children, young people and adults.
Learn more →The child and adolescent service also covers early childhood development, and learning and intellectual development, with more detail on the child and adolescent page.
Qualifications & registration
Training and registration
- Doctor of Psychology in the field of Clinical Neuropsychology and Clinical Psychology, The University of Queensland (2025)
- Bachelor of Psychological Science with Honours, The University of Queensland (2018)
- Registered psychologist with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) (registration number PSY0002342203), with area of practice endorsements in clinical neuropsychology and clinical psychology
Work with Tiffany
Tell us a little about your child or young person, or about yourself. There is no pressure to decide anything yet.
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