Normalising the Management of your Mental Health
Based in Port Macquarie, our team of qualified psychologists provides modern, compassionate therapy for adults and adolescents. We offer evidence-based psychological care grounded in science and attuned to the human experience, supporting those seeking clarity, healing, and growth.
You might be here because you're experiencing persistent anxiety, emotional overwhelm, or a sense of disconnection from yourself, your body, or your purpose. You may be navigating the effects of illness, grief, burnout, or trauma. Or perhaps you're seeking deeper self-understanding, integration, and a more empowered way of living. Therapy offers a supportive, evidence-based space to explore your inner world — a sanctuary where healing, reconnection, and transformation can unfold.
About
Director and Founder of The Millennial Psychologist
Lillian Snellenburg is a registered psychologist, writer, and the founder of The Millennial Psychologist, a contemporary, trauma-informed practice offering integrative care for adolescents and adults.
Lillian works at the crossroads of psychology, neuroscience, and soul blending modern evidence-based therapies with a deeply intuitive, body-aware approach. Her style is gentle yet intelligent; spacious yet structured. Clients are met with both warmth and precision as they navigate life’s thresholds from adolescence to adulthood, motherhood to loss, burnout to redefinition.
She is especially passionate about working with anxiety, identity, sexual wellbeing, relational dynamics, ADHD, women’s health, grief and loss. Lillian also has a strong clinical focus on chronic illness and medical trauma and holding space for those whose bodies have been dismissed, pathologised, or profoundly altered. She offers a therapy style that is both validating and empowering, rooted in the belief that healing requires safety, agency, and connection.
Lillian draws from contemporary frameworks including CBT, ACT, polyvagal theory, attachment science, schema therapy and somatic psychology. Her work is deeply informed by the nervous system, neuroplasticity, and the body’s natural capacity to heal when truly listened to.
Whether she’s supporting a teenager in distress, someone grieving a loss or shift in identity, or an individual living with chronic or terminal health conditions, Lillian offers more than symptom management; she offers reclamation. A return to the self, the body, and the knowing that wholeness was never lost.
Advocacy and Advisory Roles
She is a Consumer Advocate for the NEW1000 Study, one of Australia's largest pregnancy and early life research initiatives, where she works alongside researchers, clinicians and families to ensure lived experience informs research, policy and the future of maternal and infant healthcare.
Lillian also serves as a Consumer Representative for the Mid North Coast Local Health District (MNCLHD), contributing to the design and improvement of local health services. She is passionate about ensuring that the voices of patients and families are represented in healthcare decision-making and that services are compassionate, evidence-based and responsive to the needs of the community.
These roles reflect Lillian's belief that meaningful change happens not only in the therapy room, but also through influencing the systems that support people throughout their lives.
Beyond clinical practice, Lillian is committed to improving the future of healthcare through consumer advocacy, research and systems change.
What We Offer
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Once we receive a referral from your GP and you have completed our intake process, a referral acceptance letter will be sent to your GP along with ongoing communication regarding your wellbeing.
You do not need a referral to see a psychologist, however you will not be eligble for a Medicare rebate.
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cognitive assessments
intellectual assessments
adaptive and behavioural assessments
educational assessments
personality assessments
The Therapy Process
Therapeutic sessions are 45-50 minutes in duration and the frequency of appointments is individually tailored to meet your current needs and goals. It may be necessary during the therapy process for your psychologist to consult with your other health professionals. Your written consent will be requested and obtained prior to consulting your additional health professionals.
We offer both in clinic and telehealth psychology.
Psychologists are bound by a professional code of ethics and are required to abide by principles of professional conduct, legal matters, responsibilities and confidentiality.
