About Us

How does Minding Me Psychology work towards minding you?

Everyone experiences a time in life where they need extra help. Minding Me Psychology offers confidential and professional evidence-based clinical psychological services to those experiencing a range of difficulties including depression, anxiety, grief and loss, and relationship and workplace issues. This support is tailored specifically around your needs and goals. Minding Me Psychology believes that talking and working through your difficulties, feelings, thoughts and behaviours, you are looking after yourself and your health and well being.

about-dinali

Dr Dinali Nicole Perera

Principal Clinical Psychologist

DPsych (Clin), BSocSc (Psych)(Hons), BA, MAPS

Dinali is a Clinical Psychologist who holds a Doctor of Psychology (Clinical) qualification. She has training in clinical diagnosis and treatment of various disorders and issues in adults and older adults. She has worked in a number of public settings and has expertise in areas such as depression, anxiety, adjustment difficulties, grief and loss, and workplace stress. She also helps individuals presenting with trauma-related concerns and relationship difficulties. Dinali draws on evidence-based therapeutic frameworks including Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy.

Dinali is caring in her approach and ensures that therapy is a welcoming, supportive and safe space. She is passionate about working with clients to help them to achieve their goals, develop new skills and build on existing strengths.

Dinali also holds an Adjunct Research Fellow appointment with Monash University and is involved in various mental health research activities.

Qualifications and memberships

  • Doctor of Psychology (Clinical Psychology)
  • Bachelor of Social Sciences (Psychology) (Honours)
  • Bachelor of Arts
  • Member of the Australian Psychological Society

Publications

Book chapter

  • Clarke, D. M., Perera, D. N., & Casey, M. F. (2016). Psychological and Behavioral Contributions to Rehabilitation and Recovery in Heart Disease. Handbook of Psychocardiology, 957.

Journal articles

  • Casey, M., Perera, D.N., Enticott, J., Vo, H., Cubra, S., Gravell, A., Waerea, M., Habib, G (2021). High utilisers of emergency departments: the profile and journey of patients with mental health issues, International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice. 
  • Clarke, D.C., Baird, D.E., Perera, D. N., Hagger, V.L., & Teede, H.J. (2014). The INSPIRED study: a randomised controlled trial of the whole person model of disease self-management for people with type 2 diabetes. BMC Public Health, 14: 134.
  • Perera, D. N., Short, L & Fernbacher, S (2014). “It’s not that straightforward”: When family support is challenging for mothers living with mental illness. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal. 37(3), 170-175.
  • Perera, D. N., Short, L & Fernbacher, S (2014). There is a lot to it: Being a mother and living with a mental illness. Advances in Mental Health, 12(3): 162-176.
  • Casey, M., Perera, D. N., & Clarke, D. M. (2012). Psychosocial treatment approaches to difficult-to-treat depression. Medical Journal of Australia, 1 Suppl 4: 52-55. Doi: 10.5694/mjao12.106.29.