Meet Margaret van Keppel

I have had more than 30 years’ experience as a clinical psychologist, which includes having worked in the government, university, health and non-government sectors, as an employee and also as a consultant. I have been in private practice, as a sole practitioner, for the past 25 years.

​​I am deeply committed to promoting the well-being of individuals and their meaningful relationships, and to do so in ways that are respectful, effective, positive and creative.

​My special interests include:

• The psychology of women
• Health and reproductive/fertility issues
• Post adoption issues, including the experiences of women who relinquished children for adoption
• Grief and bereavement

​Qualifications, memberships and associations include:

• Bachelor of Psychology (UWA), Master of Psychology (clinical) (UWA) 
• Registration with Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Authority; 
• Psychologists Board of Australia; endorsement of "clinical"    specialisation. 
• Approved Counsellor, WA Reproductive Technology Council, as per the requirements of the Human Reproductive Technology Act 1991 
• Registered provider, Medicare Australia & all private health insurance funds.
•  "Working with Children Check", Department of Communities 
• Member of Australian Clinical Psychology Association 
• Member of Fertility Society of Australia 
• Member of Australian and New Zealand Infertility Counsellors Association

 I also participate in excess of 30 hours of "continuing professional development" annually.

Clinical Psychologists have all had 6 years (4 years undergraduate and 2 years postgraduate) of university-based training, followed by a further 2 years of supervised practice.

​Awards and Publications

• I was awarded a a WA Women’s Fellowship in 1986 (to study post-adoption services, including services to birth parents, in the UK, USA and Victoria)
• My work in the adoption area has been published in a number of formats, including:
  * Winkler R.C. and van Keppel M. (1984), Relinquishing mothers in adoption- their long term adjustment. Melbourne, Australian Institute of Family Studies, Monograph No 3.
  * Winkler R.C., Brown D., van Keppel M. and Blanchard A. (1988), Clinical   Practice in Adoption. Oxford, Pergamon Press Inc.
• I have also presented at a large number of conferences and workshops, on a wide variety of topics. More information is available on request.