Headspace Katoomba

Debra Mainwaring qualified as a School Teacher in 1985 and as a Psychologist in 2001in the UK. She worked for 5 years in Singapore before arriving in Brisbane in 2003.

Since 2019 Debra’s practice has been offered from Katoomba providing outreach to rural NSW, rural SA, and rural VIC for adults, children and young people requiring therapy, supervision and teachers requiring professional development support. Her practice aims to empower and inspire the people who consult her.

Debra has worked in residential settings for children in out of home care; schools as a classroom teacher (UK, Singapore and the Gold Coast), learning support teacher (UK and Singapore), head of special education services (Singapore), School Psychologist (Education Queensland, Brisbane Catholic Education, and NSW Department of Education); and in the community as an Educational Psychologist (UK) and as an Education Consultant for a flexible learning network and specialist foster care agency (S.E. QLD and NSW). She was the Regional Student Wellbeing Coordinator for Sydney Catholic Schools and is now the Centre Manager and Senior Clinician at headspace Katoomba.

She is a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society College of Educational & Developmental Psychologists (FCEDP) and an Accredited Supervisor of Psychologists in Training and most importantly a mother to six and grandmother to two, enjoying time with family, bushwalking, gardening and creative arts for self-care.