{"id":20879,"date":"2013-10-17T09:33:10","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T23:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cityfertility.com.au\/?post_type=staff&#038;p=20879"},"modified":"2026-03-17T14:36:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T04:36:56","slug":"michelle-beard","status":"publish","type":"staff","link":"https:\/\/cityfertility.coconutlab.io\/zh-hans\/staff\/michelle-beard\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Beard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #00509f;\">Michelle brings a wealth of experience to individuals and couples seeking fertility treatment and emotional support and has been providing a friendly, compassionate and non-judgmental service for over 17 years.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle works primarily in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fertility issues<\/li>\n<li>Donor counselling<\/li>\n<li>Relationship counselling<\/li>\n<li>Grief and loss<\/li>\n<li>Depression and anxiety<\/li>\n<li>Peri-natal and post-natal depression<\/li>\n<li>Eating Disorders and establishing healthy attitudes around eating behaviour<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Michelle is a psychologist who has a Bachelor of Behavioural Sciences with Honours, a Graduate Diploma of Human Resources and Employee Relations and a Masters of Human Resources and Employment Law from Melbourne University.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle is a registered psychologist with AHPRA, an associate member of the Australian Psychology Society, a member of the Australian and New Zealand Infertility Counsellors Association, and a Medicare provider for clinical psychology services.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle has had extensive experience in both private practice and high-level management roles, having worked as a Human Resources Director for nine years and Director of two international consulting firms.\u00a0 Michelle currently has a private practice in Balwyn, Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle is passionate about providing counselling that empowers her clients to make effective, long-lasting change in their lives.\u00a0 Michelle assists her clients to gain a greater understanding of the difficulties they may be experiencing, to build upon their existing strengths and develop new coping behaviours, in order to work towards achieving their personal goals.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle draws on a number of therapeutic orientations including cognitive behavioural therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, mindfulness and solution-focused therapy.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle is looking forward to supporting you through your fertility journey.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Michelle, please visit her website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.progressive-minds.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.progressive-minds.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><hr style=\"clear:both;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Address:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Progressive Minds Psychology, 218 Whitehorse Road Balwyn VIC 3103<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":58678,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"staff-language":[46],"staff-type":[19],"class_list":["post-20879","staff","type-staff","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","staff-language-english","staff-type-counselor"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cityfertility.coconutlab.io\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/20879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cityfertility.coconutlab.io\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cityfertility.coconutlab.io\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/staff"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cityfertility.coconutlab.io\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cityfertility.coconutlab.io\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"staff-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cityfertility.coconutlab.io\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff-language?post=20879"},{"taxonomy":"staff-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cityfertility.coconutlab.io\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff-type?post=20879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}