Amiee-Jade Pember (she/her)

Amiee is a late identified AuDHDer Perinatal Psychologist who has hyper focused on the intersection of neurodiversity and the perinatal period since self-identifying in October 2022. Since that time, Amiee has engaged in extensive training, reading, audiobooks and podcasts with lived experience advocates and trainers with a passionate drive to support neurodivergent families in the perinatal period. The combination of lived experience as an unidentified AuDHD Mother of 2 (now primary aged) AuDHD children, clinical therapeutic experience, and theoretical knowledge, as well as prioritising reflective practice, ensures that Amiee continues to develop as a Perinatal Clinician. It certainly helps that she works in her SPINS (special interests) and has a lifelong love of learning.

Amiee has found herself in the training and supervision space by chance over the past 12 months, particularly as she is one of the first Australia AuDHD Psychologists with a special interest and hyper focus in perinatal and infant mental health. Amiee is delighted to offer ad hoc or regular supervision for perinatal and infant mental health providers across disciplines, who are keen to develop their understanding, knowledge and skills to support their neurodivergent clients and their families. Amiee’s clinical approach is focused on a perinatal psychological framework as developed by Dr Bronwyn Leigh (the Nested Model), The Square Model as developed by Divergent Futures, and an overarching trauma-informed, neuro-affirming, lens. Amiee draws on mindfulness and compassion focused therapies as well as EMDR Therapy in her clinical practice.

Please note that Amiee is not a Board Approved Supervisor and is not offering supervision for registration purposes.

Areas of Special Interest

Neurodiversity Affirming Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Psychological Therapy
Learning the nuances of high masking, internalised presentations of the Autistic / ADHD and AuDHD neurotypes
Screening for Autism and ADHD in perinatal clients
Intersection of trauma and neurodivergence (particularly Autism / ADHD / AuDHD neurotypes)
Supporting Autistic / ADHD and AuDHD parents to rebalance demands in line with their changing capacity across the perinatal period (including TTC, Fertility treatment, Pregnancy, Postpartum and across the early parenting years)
Supporting Autistic / ADHD / AuDHD parents to prepare for a neuro-affirming birth including self-advocacy within the medical system for their unique support needs for labour and birth
Supporting families to navigate neuroclashes (the sensory, social-communication and executive functioning classes of neurodiverse families)
Supporting neurodivergent parents to strengthen navigate the perinatal period with a neuro-affirming lens; connecting and strengthening attachment relationships with their partner and their children in an authentic, strengths-based approach that values autistic / ADHD culture and communication
Supporting neurodivergent parents to navigate birth trauma and other traumas across their lifespan