Nicolle Griffin
Director of Very Helpful Chats and Registered Psychologist
State: NSW
I’m a Registered Psychologist, the founder of Very Helpful Chats, and a proudly neurodivergent clinician working with and for the neurodivergent community. I’ve been a psychologist for 17 years — and neurodivergent since birth — though like many adults, I wasn’t formally identified until later in life. That experience shaped everything about how I practice today.
Director of VHC
At Very Helpful Chats, I lead a majority-neurodivergent team of psychologists, OTs, and admin legends. Alongside running the practice, clinical work remains at the heart of what I do.
I work with adults, and I especially love supporting mums and health professionals who are juggling way too much while carrying invisible loads. My clients are often late-identified Autistic, ADHD, or AuDHD, navigating complex trauma, chronic illness, or burnout. Together, we explore what it means to live an authentic neurodivergent life: unmasking, building boundaries that actually hold, understanding sensory needs, working with demand sensitivity, stimming without shame, and finding gentler ways to meet yourself with compassion.
I offer EMDR therapy, which can be especially helpful for untangling trauma and reducing the intensity of painful memories, while still working in a neurodiversity-affirming way.
I also work with organisations and leadership teams who want to better support neurodivergent staff or clients. Whether it's reviewing your service design, running trainings, or helping you retain your brilliant-but-burned-out team members, I bring a mix of lived experience, clinical nuance, and a deep hatred of deficit-based pathologising understandings of ADHD, Autism, and neurodivergence.
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Nicolle sees clients on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.