Providing trauma-informed, culturally responsive psychotherapy to support healing, identity, and wellbeing.
Clinical Work and Research in Belonging, Trauma, Neurodiversity, and Psychological Adaptation
Perth-based psychological support for complex life transitions and trauma, informed by doctoral-level training, psychotherapy, and evidence-based psychological frameworks.
Dr Allison R. King is a Registered Psychologist (Australia), Swiss Licensed Psychotherapist, Researcher, and Clinical Practitioner.
She holds a Doctor of Psychology and Psychotherapy (PhD), a Master of Science in Psychology (Distinction), postgraduate training in Neuroscience and Psychology from King's College London, advanced professional training in the clinical care of autistic adults through Harvard Medical School, and a Master of Business Administration (MBA).
She works at the intersection of clinical practice, psychotherapy, research, and mental health leadership. Her clinical and research interests include belonging, identity, trauma, neurodiversity, relationships, affect regulation, and psychological adaptation across major life transitions.
Dr King is the developer of Transformative Acculturation (TA), a framework arising from her doctoral research exploring how women navigate identity, agency, belonging, and intimate relationships following violence, displacement, and significant life change. Her work integrates insights from trauma, culture, neurodiversity, and psychotherapy to better understand how people adapt, grow, and remain connected to themselves and others during periods of transition.
My Latest Research
This website brings together my clinical writing, doctoral research, and professional reflections. The articles below are intended for readers who want psychologically informed, research-based discussion rather than simplified self-help content
Read the comprehensive Doctoral research on Transformative Acculturation at the University of Lancashire Repository
Mechanisms
of
Psychological Change
Psychological work requires more than the application of a model. It involves understanding how patterns in emotion, behaviour, and relationships are formed, reinforced, and maintained over time and working directly with those mechanisms to create change.
My work integrates clinical practice, research, and neuroscience to examine how trauma, environment, and neurobiological processes shape functioning. This includes how threat responses are learned, how relational patterns are repeated, and how cognitive and emotional processes become stabilised under pressure.
I work across trauma, gender-based violence, and emotional dysregulation. My doctoral research led to the development of Transformative Acculturation (TA), a framework examining how individuals reconstruct agency and relational patterns following violence and disruption.
Support for ADHD- and autism-related presentations and associated difficulties, including emotion dysregulation, overload, burnout, stress intolerance, and self-organisation challenges. This area is informed by postgraduate and clinical research in neuroscience and clinical experience with neurodivergent populations.
Support for people experiencing relationship strain, separation, family tension, grief, or major life transition. The work attends to the interaction between interpersonal dynamics, emotional processing, and neurobiological regulation, with a focus on patterns that persist across contexts rather than isolated symptoms.
Psychological work for professionals and individuals managing sustained cognitive or emotional load. This includes burnout, decision fatigue, performance pressure, chronic stress, and the impact of organisational demands on functioning, wellbeing, and relationships.
Psychological work related to displacement, cultural transition, post-migration stress, identity disruption, loss of belonging, safety concerns, and relational change following migration. This area draws on doctoral research and the development of Transformative Acculturation (TA).
Clincial Approach
How I Work
Work with trauma-related presentations, including chronic threat responses, dissociation, grief, loss, and the longer-term psychological impact of abuse or gender-based violence. Interventions are trauma-informed and formulation-driven, drawing on cognitive-behavioural, DBT, ACT, psychodynamic, attachment-informed, and stabilisation-based approaches.