Dr Nick Richardson

Dr Nick Richardson is a Clinical and Child Psychologist and the Clinical Director of Future Minds Psychology. He is responsible for providing clinical leadership, providing supervising to the Future Minds team, and fostering collaboration with other services to support young people and their families.

Nick completed his training at Melbourne and Monash Universities, with his doctoral research focusing on how emotion regulation contributes to adolescent depression. Before this, he worked in government research at the Australian Institute of Family Studies, focusing on child development, child protection, and parent separation. Clinically, Nick has worked in child and youth mental health services at Monash Health and Eastern Health, holding a senior role at Eastern Health, where he worked across community, intake, and neurodevelopmental (ASD) assessment teams.

Nick specialises in supporting young people through key life transitions and also provides therapy for adults navigating relationships and parenting challenges. His approach is compassionate and tailored, using both talk-based and creative methods such as play and art. After 15 years in public and private settings, Nick established Future Minds Psychology with the goal of providing high-quality, evidence-based care to families across Melbourne’s eastern suburbs and beyond.

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Doctor of Clinical Psychology (Child, Adolescent & Family)

Bachelor of Science (Psychology) (Honours)

Bachelor of Arts

Registration no. PSY0001128542

• Anxiety and mood disorders
• Emotional regulation difficulties
• Autism and neurodivergent support
• Life-stage transitions (starting school, adolescence, young adulthood, relationship formation)
• Mental health in young adulthood
• Exploration of gender and sexual identity
• Supporting parental understanding of children's needs
• Peer relationship difficulties
• Supervision and mentoring of psychologists