Kim Slender – School Counsellor

Parent seminar

On Tuesday 8 August 2017, Dani Klein will be giving a seminar for parents on what to expect in these teenage years in her seminar titled Sex and Drugs and Rock ‘n Roll.

She will examine the psychological changes, physical changes and developmental aspects of what occurs as your child transitions from child to adolescent.

She will be looking at how to best understand the changes in your child and cope with them along with all the pressures of social media and the digital age.

She will do this with the benefit of her 25 years of clinical experience in the field of working with adolescents and a fair bit of good humour.

Dani Klein is a clinical psychologist/psychotherapist and has worked in both the private and public sectors in many parts of Sydney, with a variety of different mental health populations. Over her years of experience, Dani has worked predominantly with adolescents and adults. After beginning her career in the Acute Psychiatric Ward at Nepean hospital, she moved to an Adolescent and Family team in the community health sector in Sydney’s south west. She then moved into Sydney’s East and was the Clinical Team Leader at an adolescent service (WAYS) based in Bondi Beach for ten years before starting her family. In 2004, Dani took on the job of in-house consultant clinical psychologist within a private girls’ school in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney (Ascham School). Within this context, she continued to work with young women and their families. She also developed a keen interest and expertise in working with young women and the issues relating to self-harm as well as eating disorders. She also regularly lectures in her high energy, entertaining style to schools and other forums on issues to do with adolescents, resilience, parenting, tweens, drugs and alcohol, surviving the HSC etc.

Dani is also the mother of three children and tries very hard to put her theory into practice…..always easier in theory!