12/01/2026
Hello!!
A little bit about me – because reaching out to a stranger can be daunting.
My name is Carri and I’m a mixed bag of a person. I love to laugh, play, create and relax - but I can also be oh-so-serious. My friends say that I’m in touch with all the facets of my ‘humanhood’ and I take that as a huge compliment 😊
I stumbled upon Psychology as a career (rather than a way of life) later than what is conventional, having spent 15 meaningful, challenging, happy-sad-amazing and GROWING years as a high school teacher before formally embarking on Carri Simmons Part 2 when I went back to school to begin my clinical training. Opening a Private Practice as a Clinical Psychologist was a dream that gripped my heart and kept me passionate, motivated, and moving throughout that time. Now, a few years down the road of private practice, after completing my chapters of consulting in hospitals and other clinical settings, I feel deeply grateful for work that continues to be meaningful and engaging. My patient load has grown steadily (thank you, word of mouth), and I have recently expanded the practice to meet demand by welcoming another psychologist into the team — a step that felt equal parts exciting, affirming, and slightly surreal.
My practice is based in a comfortable, peaceful setting — intentionally designed to feel safe, warm, and human (no cold corridors or intimidating chairs here). My therapeutic style is relational, collaborative, and grounded in solid clinical training, with a trauma-informed framework now forming an important backbone of how I understand and approach the work. In short: evidence-based, heart-led, and very much centred on the person in front of me.
I absolutely love what I do. I enjoy working with people of all ages and am comfortable treating clients who have serious psychopathologies as well as those who have encountered contextual bumps in the road and other life stressors. I have a special interest in women's health and the transition to new motherhood as well as in working with children. I have had much experience with trauma, depression, anxiety, personality pathology, neurodiversity, suicidality and self-harm, adjustment, and schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Walking alongside people and partnering in healing and growth is what I’m about – that is my why and the how of the work that I do.
Outside the therapy room, I’m a mom to three growing humans who remind me that time is both fascinating and mildly alarming. One is now away at university, another is heading into matric, and the third is catching up swiftly as she quite literally attacks high school life with more energy and enthusiasm than the rest of the family combined. I’m pretty sure that my three have taught me everything I need to know about life. My husband and I wrangle work and family life from our home in Gillitts with some spectacular juggling, and varying degrees of grace. It is busy – we like it that way - but I have been working intentionally on balance, and while I won’t pretend to have perfected it, I am definitely making progress. These days that includes regular yoga, time on my bike, trail running, reading, drawing. and the ongoing practice of slowing down when possible. I am most peaceful in nature and at the ocean and I will forever more remain a firm believer in the day-time nap!
I’d love to meet you. I am a perfectly imperfect human, just like you, so don’t be shy to get in touch.
“We are all just walking each other home.” Ram Dass
