About Axis Within Psychology.
Axis Within Psychology supports women navigating anxiety, burnout, ADHD-related challenges, emotional overwhelm, and the increasing mental load that often accompanies modern life.
Many women seeking support appear highly capable on the outside while privately experiencing chronic stress, emotional exhaustion, perfectionism, overwhelm, or the sense that life has become increasingly difficult to manage.
We provide evidence-based psychological support tailored to the realities many women face across careers, relationships, caregiving responsibilities, emotional labour, health concerns, and major life transitions.
Women commonly seek support for:
High-functioning anxiety and chronic worry
Burnout and emotional exhaustion
ADHD in women
Emotional regulation difficulties
Emotional eating patterns
Chronic stress and overwhelm
Perimenopause and midlife mental health
Axis Within Psychology was founded on the belief that psychological support should feel practical, personalised, evidence-based, and realistic within the demands of everyday life.
About Anna Kelm.
Anna is an AHPRA-Registered Psychologist with a background in nutrition, wellness coaching, and behaviour change, bringing a practical and psychologically informed approach to supporting women’s mental health and wellbeing.
Before transitioning into psychology, Anna worked in highly demanding corporate environments and spent over a decade supporting clients across nutrition, wellness coaching, exercise physiology, and behaviour change. This broader professional background shaped her understanding of the relationship between stress, lifestyle, sleep, physical wellbeing, and emotional health.
Through this work, Anna observed that many women were often offered fragmented support that did not fully address the broader picture. While areas such as nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress, or mental health may have been addressed individually, the underlying emotional patterns, overwhelm, perfectionism, emotional eating patterns, self-sabotaging behaviours, or difficulty sustaining change long-term often remained unresolved.
This shaped Anna’s interest in understanding why sustainable change can feel so difficult, particularly when emotional wellbeing, stress, lifestyle demands, and mental load are all interacting at the same time. She believes that understanding why we think, feel, and respond the way we do is often the first step towards meaningful change. Rather than focusing solely on symptom management, Anna works collaboratively with clients to understand the patterns contributing to their difficulties and develop practical, sustainable strategies that create lasting change.
Anna understands the realities many women face while balancing careers, relationships, families, health concerns, routines, and the constant mental load that accompanies modern life. She recognises that many women do not need another person telling them to "slow down", "eat less and exercise more", or simply "take better care of themselves". More often, they need space to understand what is contributing to their difficulties and practical strategies that genuinely fit the reality of their lives.
Some women specifically choose to work with a female Psychologist because they feel it is the right fit for them. If that's important to you, you can learn more about working with Anna as a Female Psychologist in Brisbane.
She has a particular interest in helping women reduce overwhelm, simplify routines, develop supportive systems, and create more sustainable ways of functioning in everyday life.
Alongside therapy, Anna provides comprehensive psychological assessments for children and adults, including ADHD assessments, cognitive assessments, educational assessments, and assessments for Specific Learning Disorders. Her assessment approach combines evidence-based testing with detailed clinical formulation to help clients better understand their strengths, challenges, and practical pathways forward.
Anna has particular interests in supporting women navigating:
High-functioning anxiety and burnout
Emotional overload and chronic stress
ADHD
Perimenopause, meopause and midlife mental health
Perfectionism, people-pleasing, and over-functioning patterns
Her approach is warm, collaborative, and evidence-based. She believes therapy should help clients make sense of what they are experiencing, not simply reduce symptoms. By understanding the factors contributing to their difficulties, clients are often able to respond to themselves with greater clarity and self-compassion while developing realistic strategies that support meaningful and sustainable change.
Anna has previously contributed to Australian health and wellbeing media, with commentary featured across publications relating to women’s wellbeing, behaviour change, and mental health.
Professional Memberships
Australian Psychological Society (APS) — Member
Australian Association of Psychologists Inc (AAPi) — Member
Australasian Menopause Society (AMS) — Member
Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine (ACNEM) — Member
Anna consults from New Farm Wellness Centre in New Farm, Brisbane and also provides secure Telehealth appointments for adults throughout Australia.
You can explore our therapy services or book an appointment to learn more about how Axis Within Psychology can support you.