Tony's Practice
Tony Schneider, B.A. Hons (UWA), M. App. Psych. (Murdoch), M.A.P.S.
After graduating from UWA in 1978, Tony worked as full time tutor for five years in Psychology at Murdoch University while doing postgraduate studies. He then worked for three years as a Child Psychologist in a federally-funded program with special needs children under the age of five, before working in the non-government schools sector as an Educational Psychologist for two years.
Tony entered private practice in 1989, and has remained in full time private practice since. He maintained a consultancy for schools, but also branched out into trauma debriefing (with Davidson and Trahaire), and consulting at Cambridge Pain Management Clinic. He maintained his involvement with Murdoch University for many years, providing clinical supervision in the University's Masters programs, both in clinical and educational psychology. Tony's work as a clinician in private practice exposed him to a range of common clinical and relational issues, including trauma, grief and depression, anxiety, addictions, chronic pain, and problems in sexual relating.
Tony has published several academic articles, and contributed to chapters on Education, and Health and Family Functioning, in the WA Government's 1995 WA Families - Our Future: Report of the Task Force on Families in WA; and to the chapter 'Independent Practice' in P.R. Martin and J.S. Birnbrauer's 1996 The Practice of Clinical Psychology (MacMillan Education Australia). In 2013 his book The Brain, the Clinician, and I: Neuroscience findings and the subjective self in clinical practice (Explorations in Mental Health Series) was published by Routledge; and in 2019, his book Sex & Belonging: On the psychology of sexual relationships was published by Australian Academic Press. Both are currently available through Amazon.
Tony is registered as a psychologist with the Psychology Board of Australia (AHPRA), with endorsements in the areas of Clinical Psychology and Educational and Developmental Psychology. He is also a member of the Australian Psychological Society, and a fellow both in the College of Clinical Psychologists and the College of Educational and Developmental Psychologists.
