Meet Our Team
Headed by co-founders Dr Ourania Antokas and Dr Haley Webb, LW was created and crafted from a shared passion and dedication to child development. As parents themselves, Ourania and Haley were inspired to create LW to meet the unique needs of children and their parents equally.
Both hold the highest level of professional qualification in their field, having completed a doctoral level of post-graduate clinical study, research and training. Both dedicated their post-graduate field of specialisation to child psychology and are published in international journals of child development and psychology.
With 18 years of study and training, and 25 years of clinical experience between them, they are highly skilled at their craft.
Dr Ourania Antokas
Clinical Psychologist (She/Her)
With over 15 years of clinical experience, Ourania has a warm, creative and engaging approach to working with children. She was inspired to dedicate her professional life to childhood development out of the inherent beauty that is childhood and her awareness of the significant impact early identification/intervention has on the lifelong trajectories. Ourania is also passionate about bringing children’s awareness to their strengths through affirming differences and is fulfilled by helping little warriors to thrive.
Ourania has a Doctor of Clinical Psychology from Griffith University and specialist training in child development and psychology. Her experience has spanned a range of clinical settings such as hospital and community mental health services, specialist early developmental intervention services, specialist childhood trauma intervention services and private practice.
She has contributed to published research in an International Journal of Child Development and is a member of the Australian Association of Psychologists Inc (AAPI) and the Association for Research in Infant and Child Development (ARICD).
Dr Haley Webb
Clinical Psychologist (She/Her)
Haley is a Clinical Psychologist with over 12 years of clinical experience in working with children. She has a playful and creative approach when working with children and enjoys getting to know and supporting the unique identities of each of her clients. She celebrates diversity and seeks to empower children through supporting their unique strengths, optimising relationships, and overcoming obstacles. Haley has dedicated her professional life to guiding little warriors and their families to thrive through clinical practice as well as research.
Haley previously worked and ran research within a specialist childhood emotional and behavioural clinic at Griffith University. She has also worked extensively with children in private practice and other settings. Her areas of interest include neurodivergence (e.g., autism, ADHD, OCD, tics/Tourette’s, and learning differences), eating and feeding issues, neurodevelopmental and cognitive assessments, and parenting support.
Haley has a PhD in Clinical Psychology from Griffith University. She held a post-doctoral research position with Griffith, having published over 40 research articles to international journals on topics including parenting, child eating behaviour, body image, emotion regulation, anxiety, and depression. She is also a member of the Australian Association of Psychologists Inc (AAPI).
Haley previously worked and ran research within a specialist childhood emotional and behavioural clinic at Griffith University. She has also worked extensively with children in private practice and other settings. Her areas of special interest include neurodivergent differences (e.g., Autism, ADHD, OCD, Tics/Tourette’s, and Learning differences), eating and feeding issues, neurodevelopmental and cognitive assessments, and parenting support.
