Teaching
Courses Bronte teaches into:
- Graduate Certificate of Counselling & Psychotherapy
- Graduate Diploma of Counselling & Psychotherapy
- Master of Counselling & Psychotherapy
Units Bronte teaches into:
- CAP412 Ethics and Professional Development
Clinical Expertise
Bronte offers person-centred counselling for adults (18+) that is trauma-informed and emotion-focused. She supports people facing a wide range of challenges, including stress, anxiety, depression, relationship issues, life changes, and trauma. Bronte also works with individuals living with chronic illness or pain, and those navigating identity, self-worth, discrimination, and burnout. Bronte’s approach is grounded in evidence-based methods and tailored to each person’s unique needs and experiences. Bronte is also an experienced facilitator of group recovery programs, as well as nonviolent communication workshops.
About
Dr Bronte McLeod is a Registered Psychologist, Clinical Psychology Registrar, and Senior Lecturer in Counselling and Psychotherapy at the Cairnmillar Institute. She brings over a decade of experience across clinical practice, teaching, and research in the areas of trauma, ethical practice, lived-experience leadership, critical phenomenology, and liberation psychology.
Bronte has worked in multidisciplinary teams across both public and private sectors, offering individual and group recovery programs for people with complex trauma. Her clinical training spans a range of contemporary modalities, including Emotion Focused Therapy, Schema Therapy, Nonviolent Communication, and Compassion-Focused approaches, supporting her trauma-informed and person-centred therapeutic style.
Presently, Bronte leads the Expanded Focusing Research Project, a cross-institutional collaboration with Swinburne University and the Australian Institute of Emotion Focused Therapy, where she also serves as a Committee Member. This research explores how therapists are applying the Expanded Focusing Task—developed by Dr Melissa Harte to safely work with emotional injury and trauma—in their practice with clients. Alongside her academic and research roles, Bronte runs a private practice offering personalised counselling for adults across the lifespan.