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Dr Juliane Pariz

Dr Juliane Pariz is a highly experienced Clinical Psychologist and an AHPRA-registered Psychology Board-approved supervisor for all pathways of registration. She has over 15 years of dedicated experience working with children, adolescents aged 17 and under, and families. Based on the Gold Coast, Dr Pariz brings a unique combination of extensive clinical expertise and rigorous research background to her therapeutic work, ensuring that young people and their families receive evidence-based, compassionate care tailored to their individual needs.

Dr Pariz creates a warm, non-judgmental therapeutic environment where children, adolescents, and families feel heard, understood, and supported. She values collaborative relationships with referring GPs and provides
comprehensive feedback and progress updates to ensure coordinated care. Families appreciate her practical, strengths-based approach that empowers parents and builds resilience in young people.

Clinical Expertise and Approach

Dr Pariz has worked across various settings, including public health services, paediatric hospital settings, university psychology clinics, and private practice across Brazil and Australia. Her practice is grounded in attachment-based, trauma-informed care, schema therapy, neuro-affirming approaches, family systems and cognitive-behavioural frameworks, allowing her to address a wide range of presenting concerns with sensitivity and skill. In addition, her work with Indigenous families in Australia has deepened her cultural awareness and commitment to providing culturally responsive, trauma-informed care.

Dr Pariz also specialises in Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), offering targeted interventions for externalising behavioural difficulties, including ADHD and emotional and behavioural dysregulation in children, adolescents, and associated family relationship challenges. Her approach recognises that children's wellbeing is intrinsically connected
to their family system and the patterns of attachment and interaction; she works collaboratively with parents and caregivers to create lasting, positive change.

Areas of Clinical Focus

  • Behavioural difficulties and conduct problems in children and adolescents
  • Anxiety, depression and mood disorders in young people
  • Neurodivergence and developmental conditions, either diagnosed or subclinical presentations, including
    ADHD and ASD type 1
  • Trauma and attachment-related concerns, including complex and intergenerational trauma
  • Parent-child relationship difficulties and family conflict
  • Parental substance use and co-parenting matters
  • Social and emotional difficulties, including peer relationships and school-based challenges
  • Culturally appropriate support for Australian First Nations children, adolescents and their families, as well as CALD peoples
  • Clinical supervision and training of psychological treatment and assessments

Research and Academic Contributions

 
Dr Pariz’s clinical work is informed by her extensive research background in developmental psychology and youth mental health. She completed both a clinical and a research master’s in psychology in Brazil. Her PhD was completed on the Gold Coast at Griffith University, where she investigated the developmental origins of antisocial behaviour in children and adolescents. Her ongoing research at the University of Queensland’s National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research focuses on parenting practices, adolescent substance use, and early intervention strategies. She is also a Lecturer of Clinical Psychology at the University of Southern Queensland, teaching and training within psychology postgraduate programs.
 
This research-practice integration ensures that Dr Pariz remains at the forefront of evidence-based treatments, translating the latest research findings into practical therapeutic interventions. Her publications in peer-reviewed journals cover topics including aggression in childhood, parenting interventions, youth substance use, and developmental psychopathology.