Owen O'Neil
Owen O'Neil
he/him
Carlton
St Kilda

Owen O'Neil

he/him
Psychologist
Owen O'Neil
Carlton
St Kilda

Owen is a counselling psychologist with experience working in private practice, government, and non-government organisations. He is a proud queer poly person who is dedicated to working with members of queer communities to empower them to improve their wellbeing and thrive. He provides individual therapy and relationship therapy, particularly with queer, poly, and CNM relationships. He has a special interest in complex trauma and addiction issues. Owen is a trauma-informed, gender-affirming, sex, kink, and sex worker positive, and neurodiversity affirming practitioner. His favourite modalities to work from are EFT, IFS, EMDR, ACT, and Narrative Therapy.

Owen is an AHPRA PsyBA approved supervisor who is available to provide supervision to psychologists including students and counselling psychology registrars.

Owen is a monolingual, poly, queer person who grew up on the lands of the Eora Nation and now lives and works on the lands of the Bunurong people and the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the East Kulin Nations. He has lived experience of housing insecurity and being targeted for gender-based and sexuality-based violence. He does not have intergenerational wealth privilege or inheritance privilege. He strives toward accountable solidarity regarding his literacy, educational, citizenship, sighted, hearing, speaking, able-bodied, situationally binary cisgender, citizenship, white-skinned, and non-Aboriginal privileges.

Available at:
St. Kilda Clinic
Thursdays
Carlton Clinic
Mondays, Fridays
Geelong Clinic
Qualifications

Bachelor of Psychology (Honours)

Master of Psychology (Counselling Psychology)

Professional associations and memberships

Member of APS

Fellow of APS College of Counselling Psychologists

Member of International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT)

Member of Melbourne Community for Emotionally Focused Therapy (MCEFT)

Member of AusPATH

Publications

Ingram, I., Kelly, P.J., Haslam, C., O'Neil, O.J., Deane, F.P., Baker,A.L. and Dingle, G.A. (2020), Reducing loneliness among people with substance use disorders: Feasibility of ‘Groups for Belonging’. Drug Alcohol Rev., 39:495-504. https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.13121

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