Romney Noonan
Highest Degree Held: MA
Specialties: trauma
Types of Clients: Adolescents, Adults
Languages spoken: English
Licensures/Certifications: Clinical Psychologist
ACT/CBS Background and Training: More than a decade of experience working with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
Additional Information: Romney is a Clinical Psychologist, an accredited EMDR Consultant, an accredited Schema Therapist, and a licensed Circle of Security Parent Educator. He has experience across a range of treatment settings, including Child Protection, Community Adult Mental Health, and Private Practice. While Romney works with clients of all ages and clinical presentations, his key skill set is in working with adult survivors of complex developmental trauma.
In working with adults, Romney draws on a range of treatment approaches including EMDR, Schema Therapy, ACT, and Positive Psychology. In working with children and families, he has a strong focus on attachment and child development and draws from a range of attachment-based models, including the Circle of Security, Dan Hughes’ PLACE model, and the ARC (attachment, regulation, competence) model.
Romney's private practice, South West Clinical Psychology, is based in Margaret River where he is also a partner and team member of the South West Community Therapy Centre. Romney’s professional affiliations and memberships include: Australian Psychological Society (APS), EMDR Association of Australia (EMDRAA), International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST), International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA), and the Association of Contextual and Behavioural Sciences (ACBS). Romney is also a member of Rural Health West, an organisation focused on delivering better health outcomes for communities in rural Western Australia.
In 2025, Romney delivered two poster presentations at the World Congress on Positive Psychology, outlining Relational-Experiential Theory, which he developed as an integration of Positive Psychology and trauma-informed psycho-therapeutic models.
In working with adults, Romney draws on a range of treatment approaches including EMDR, Schema Therapy, ACT, and Positive Psychology. In working with children and families, he has a strong focus on attachment and child development and draws from a range of attachment-based models, including the Circle of Security, Dan Hughes’ PLACE model, and the ARC (attachment, regulation, competence) model.
Romney's private practice, South West Clinical Psychology, is based in Margaret River where he is also a partner and team member of the South West Community Therapy Centre. Romney’s professional affiliations and memberships include: Australian Psychological Society (APS), EMDR Association of Australia (EMDRAA), International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST), International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA), and the Association of Contextual and Behavioural Sciences (ACBS). Romney is also a member of Rural Health West, an organisation focused on delivering better health outcomes for communities in rural Western Australia.
In 2025, Romney delivered two poster presentations at the World Congress on Positive Psychology, outlining Relational-Experiential Theory, which he developed as an integration of Positive Psychology and trauma-informed psycho-therapeutic models.