Clinical Psychologist | Trained in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy

Welcome, I’m Dr Paula

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Integrative Psychology Clinic

I offer in-person and online consultations through The Health Lodge in Byron Bay. To book or join the waitlist, simply reach out — the team and I will guide you from there.

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Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy & Integration

Offering carefully governed psychedelic-assisted therapy for PTSD and treatment-resistant depression—where deep psychological healing meets rigorous clinical care.

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Events
& Speaking

I offer keynote talks, workshops, and guest sessions that blend science, story, and practical tools — creating experiences that educate, inspire, and connect.

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My Approach


Integrative psychology for deep healing, clarity and change.

I specialise in working with women navigating periods of transition, burnout, identity shift and renewal - often all at once.

Drawing from EMDR, CBT, Somatic Therapy, Mindfulness, and Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy, my work bridges science and soul to support nervous system regulation, psychological integration and meaningful change.

About Dr Paula

  • I understand symptoms as signals rather than failures — expressions of a nervous system responding to life experience. My work supports slowing down, listening carefully, and making sense of distress within the wider context of your relationships, history, and environment. This process privileges your experience and agency, while supporting responsibility, integration, and meaningful change over time.

    Dr Paula Watkins

Parenting is real-time reparenting — caring for our children while meeting the younger parts of ourselves that were never fully held. In my work with parents, and in a separate clinical context through psychedelic-assisted therapy, different pa
Psychedelic experiences can offer a glimpse of wholeness — a moment of clarity, connection, and grace. The window may close, but the memory remains, pointing us back toward what matters. Integration is the practice of remembering — learni
Your body is built with exit ramps for regulation. Stress is meant to move and resolve. Shaking, tears, breath, movement — these aren’t problems to fix, but pathways out. Regulation isn’t suppression. It’s letting the body c
Healing was never meant to be either/or. Mental health doesn’t live only in the mind — it lives in the body, in relationships, in the environments that shape our nervous systems every day. When we widen the lens, we create space for deep