Alexandra Frost

Director/Senior Clinical Psychologist
t/a Attuned Psychology Pty Ltd ABN 41 626 315 893

Alexandra practices at our North Adelaide Rooms Monday to Thursday and alternate Fridays. As part of this schedule Alexandra has after hours appointments available Monday and Tuesday evenings and 8.30am appointments on Wednesdays.

Please contact the Practice on (08) 8361 7008 to confirm her current availability and be waitlisted for openings. 

Hello, I’m Alexandra (I prefer Alex), and I’m glad you’re here. I look forward to working with you in a way that honours your uniqueness and your creativity, while respecting the courage and vulnerability it takes to make that first step towards therapy..

Perhaps you’re carrying the aftermath of a traumatic experience. Your relationship might have reached a point where the same arguments keep resurfacing, or your family feels caught in patterns nobody quite knows how to interrupt.

You may be a performer or a professional under pressure, watching the thing you’ve trained your whole life for start to feel impossible to achieve when it counts. You may be an adolescent working out who you are and feeling anxious, in a world that feels overwhelming and harder to manage than it should.

Grief may have settled into your life and while everyone else carries on as usual, you barely go through the motions, feeling detached and numb.

My role is to help make sense of things with you, understand the challenges you are facing and access and build on your strengths to help you live the life you want to live. . I’ve spent close to 30 years as a Clinical Psychologist working with adolescents, adults, families, couples and performers across all of these experiences, and I know that finding your way here takes courage.

Over nearly three decades, I’ve refined an approach to understanding what shapes your mental health, your wellbeing and your relationships. The first goal is simple but profoundly important: to be genuinely present with you, session after session, with curiosity and openness.

My approach is built on the premise that lasting change is possible when you feel truly known and seen. The therapeutic relationship is at the heart of everything I do, and research consistently tells us that the quality of that relationship is one of the most powerful ingredients in meaningful change. I’ve seen it hold true, session after session, for nearly thirty years.

My second goal is to never assume where you want to take things, even when we’re working toward something longer term. Some days call for space to unpack what’s just happened. Other days call for a gentle nudge toward what you’d rather avoid, or something else entirely. I stay attuned to what you need, session by session, always working collaboratively.

I’m not a textbook-following therapist, and my work is relational and multi-layered. Knowing what generally helps someone with anxiety, or grief, or trauma is vital but it only takes us so far. I tailor my approach to what you bring, your uniqueness, your specific needs, your energy levels and what feels important that day. Sometimes the process is more organic and takes us somewhere unexpected. Other times, it’s far more directed and focused on something very specific.

From our first session, I’m working to understand the full context of your life including the relationships, systems, and life experiences that have shaped how you move through the world. I hold a systemic lens across all of my work, recognising that stuckness doesn’t always originate from within. Your experiences are shaped by the important relationships and systems in your life, past and present, and by the different parts of you that developed in response, especially to trauma.

I have a strong commitment to mindfulness based ways of working, particularly Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. At its heart, ACT is about learning to notice your thoughts, feelings, and sensations rather than fighting them or trying to control them. That shift, from struggle to acceptance, changes everything. From there, we look at what matters most to you, and find ways to move toward that life, even while the hard stuff is still present.

Trauma-informed care runs through everything I do. I understand trauma as something that touches many parts of you, including: how you think, how you feel, how your body responds, how you behave, and how you relate to the people around you. We will move at a pace that feels safe for you, making sense together of what often follows, always honouring the ways you adapted to survive while building new pathways for change.

I believe deeply in creating a space where diversity is embraced and difference is welcomed. You can show up exactly as you are in this room, without needing to mask or edit what you say. That includes your sexuality, your gender, your neurotype, your culture, your communication style and everything else that makes you who you are.

I’m known for being direct when that’s what’s needed, but you’ll typically find our sessions carry honesty, compassion, genuine respect, and a healthy dose of humour. Should you need to go to uncomfortable places, I’ll sit with you there too, carefully and safely, no matter how intense those feelings are. And when it’s useful, I’ll gently nudge you toward challenging yourself by suggesting practical strategies alongside the deeper work, whatever the moment calls for.

I’m experienced in working with adolescents 16 years and above, adults, couples, performers, and families, with experience across community health, university counselling, primary health, a hospice, and private practice over many years. I’m also constantly holding a systemic lens, thinking about the relationships and dynamics someone is moving through, even when they’re the only person in the room. I also have significant experience working with the LGBTQIA+ community, including couple work, and I’m committed to working in a genuinely affirming way.

I consult at North Adelaide, Monday through Friday, with both business and after-hours appointments available face-to-face and via Telehealth.