Dr Nick Marsden

Dr Nick Marsden is a clinical psychologist and Advanced Schema Therapist. He is the director or Marsden Clinical Psychology and has taken great pleasure in building this service from the ground up. Nick’s dream is to provide an independent mental health service for the community that persistently strives for clinical excellence. He is an enthusiastic and passionate person who values creativity and innovation highly and he is determined to ensure the highest quality care is provided to all of Marsden Psychology’s clients.

Nick’s clinical leadership ensures that all clinicians are appropriately trained and supported in the delivery of services. He provides specialised supervision to his staff with a particular focus on neurodiversity in children and adults, and schema therapy (trauma and attachment based therapy) for both children/adolescents and adults. Nick also provides supervision and training to provisional psychologists, clinical psychology registrars, and senior clinical psychologists that work elsewhere in the community and around the country.

Nick’s clinical work is limited to specialised areas including complex neurodiverse assessments (ChAMPS multidisciplinary developmental assessments), Autism and ADHD in adults (assessment and therapeutic supports), and therapy for trauma or chronic mental health conditions, by way of Schema Therapy (children/adolescents and adults).

Nick is passionate about ADHD and Autism and has delivered training and education in a number of schools in the Illawarra, teaching primary and high school educators about the diverse needs and approaches that are best suited for neurodiverse children and adolescents.

Education & Experience

Dr Nick Marsden holds a Doctorate of Clinical Psychology and Master of Science degrees from the University of Sydney, NSW, Australia, and a Bachelor of Arts (Psychology Honours) from the University of Wollongong. He is an Advanced Schema Therapist and a member of the International Society of Schema Therapy. He is a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society (APS) College of Clinical Psychologists, a Member of the APS and Australian Clinical Psychology Association (ACPA), and an Adjunct Fellow of Macquarie University. Nick is an AHPRA Board of Psychology approved supervisor for all levels of psychologists, and provides supervision and training for clinical psychology students from the University of Wollongong and University of Technology Sydney. His continuing education has included specific training in Schema Therapy for various difficulties including personality disorders (Borderline PD, Narcissistic PD, OCPD, Avoidant PD), OCD, chronic depression and anxiety, and early childhood traumas (including sexual and physical abuse). He has trained in EMDR for trauma related disorders and his doctoral thesis was on PTSD. Nick’s early career as a psychologist was heavily focused on Family Therapy and this continues to inform his approach that is strongly underpinned by attachment theories.