CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST

Verity Stoker 

Meet Verity

Helping adults regain balance, clarity, and confidence during life’s most demanding moments.

With more than 25 years of clinical experience in Coffs Harbour, Verity brings a warm, grounded, and calming presence to her work. Her background spans public and private mental health, rehabilitation, and organisational wellbeing, and she has contributed published research on stress and workplace wellbeing. This breadth of experience enables her to understand the complexities people face and support them with clarity, compassion, and practical wisdom.

Verity has a particular passion for the therapeutic power of meditation, mindfulness, and clinical hypnotherapy. She believes that creating space to quiet the mind and reconnect with the body can be a powerful catalyst for healing, resilience, and lasting change. These approaches are thoughtfully integrated into her practice, helping clients reduce stress, shift unhelpful patterns, build emotional regulation, and reconnect with a greater sense of calm and confidence.

She works with adults seeking support for stress, anxiety, depression, burnout, chronic pain, empty-nest adjustment, and perimenopausal or menopausal changes. Drawing on an integrated blend of evidence-based therapies; including CBT, ACT, trauma-informed practice, clinical hypnotherapy, mindfulness, EFT, NET, psycho-sensory techniques, and life-coaching principles. Verity tailors every session to meet each person's unique needs and goals.

Her therapy room is a calm, safe, and non-judgemental space where clients can slow down, breathe deeply, and feel genuinely supported. Whether through guided meditation, hypnotherapy, or practical therapeutic strategies, Verity's focus is on helping people feel lighter, clearer, and more empowered while developing lifelong skills that foster emotional wellbeing and meaningful, sustainable change.

In addition to individual therapy, Verity is passionate about teaching meditation and relaxation techniques that clients can continue using long after therapy has ended. She also supervises early-career clinicians as a board-approved supervisor, supporting the next generation of mental health professionals.

Referral pathways are flexible and accessible. Verity welcomes self-referrals, with no GP referral required. Clients may access Medicare rebates through a Mental Health Care Plan or use private health insurance. She also accepts referrals from Veterans’ Affairs and NDIS and continues to undertake select insurance-related work.

"For many, simply beginning the conversation brings clarity and hope."

Standard Session Fee: $260
Medicare Rebate: $149.05

Chronic Pain

Clinical Hypnosis

Psychoeducation

Mindfulness

Positive Psychology

Meditation

Chronic Pain Clinical Hypnosis Psychoeducation Mindfulness Positive Psychology Meditation

Therapeutic Approaches

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Trauma Informed Practice

Clinical Hypnotherapy

Mindfulness and Meditation

Emotional Freedom Techniques

Neuro Emotional Techniques

Psycho-Sensory Techniques

Life Coaching Principles

Fun facts about Verity

Whats a saying you live by?

“Give a person a fish, they’ll eat. Teach them how to fish & they can feed themselves for the rest of their lives” - approach to therapy.

What area of practice lights you up?

“The people, seeing people finding their balance in life.”

What drew you to Psychology?

“Interest in human nature, why do people do what they do, what is the function of peoples behaviour.”

Education

Bachelor of Social Science (B..Soc.Sc)

Graduate Diploma of Education (Grad.Dip.Ed.)

Graduate Diploma of Professional Psychology (Grad.Prof.Psych)

Master of Clinical Psychology (M.Psych.Clin)

Member of the Australian Psychological Society (MAPS)

Clinical Hypnotherapy Course (completed 2026).