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Adele Stavropoulos is a warm and empathic clinical psychologist who helps clients navigate their emotions and develop stronger relationships with themselves and others.
Adele works with adults, adolescents and children of all ages across Parramatta and western Sydney to help them achieve meaningful and lasting change. She has a specific interest in working with families to overcome emotional and behavioural challenges and enrich family bonds and is also a mother of two children.
Adele’s genuine and compassionate style allows her to create a safe, relaxed and non-judgmental space where clients feel understood, seen and heard. She takes a collaborative and caring approach to develop tailored evidence-based treatment plans that give her clients greater self-awareness and empower them to heal and grow.
Adele launched Western Sydney Clinical Psychology in Parramatta after years of clinical experience working across public and private hospitals, university and research clinics, private practice, and an NGO. She is an internationally published researcher; her cutting-edge work into the use of imagery rescripting to help people processing distressing memories delivered excellent clinical outcomes.
Adele holds a Bachelor of Psychology (Honours), a Master of Clinical Psychology and a PhD in Clinical Psychology. She is an endorsed clinical psychologist and clinical supervisor registered with the Psychology Board of Australia and a Member of the Australian Psychology Society (MAPS).
Psychology Board of Australia, Registration number: PSY0001967677
Stavropoulos, A., & Berle, D. (2020). The influence of ruminative processing mode on the trajectory of intrusive memories following a negative mood induction. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 68, 101528.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2019.101528
Stavropoulos, A., Haire, M., Brockman, R., & Meade, T. (2020). A schema mode model of repetitive negative thinking. Clinical Psychologist, 24, 99 – 113.
https://doi.org/10.1111/cp.12205
Stavropoulos, A., Brockman, R., Hayes, C., Rogers, K., & Berle, D. (2023). A Single Case Series of Imagery Rescripting of Intrusive Autobiographical Memories in Depression. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 81, 101854.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2023.101854
Stavropoulos, A., Brockman, R., & Berle, D. (2022). The Application of imagery rescripting to intrusive autobiographical memories in depression. The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist, 15,
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1754470X22000435
Chapter 6. Repetitive Negative Thinking in Eating Disorders: Identifying and Bypassing Over-Analysing Coping Modes and Building Schema Attunement, Robert Brockman & Adele Stavropoulos in Schema Therapy for Eating Disorders: Theory and Practice; Susan Simpson and Evelyn Smith (2020)