Certified Psychedelic Assisted Therapist (Integrative Psychiatry Institute, 12 month course including MAPS training)
Internal Family Systems Therapist (Level 2)
Psychology Board of Australia Approved Supervisor
Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician
EMDR Therapist
Innate Somatic Intelligence Trauma Therapy Approach (ISITTA, founded in Hakomi therapy)
Trauma Informed Care and Practice (An indigenous approach to developing workers skills, IPAT)
Dr Bywater is passionate about the entitlement of clients to receive mental health care that is innovative and evidence-based. In 2023, Dr Bernadette Bywater co-founded EvolutionMET. She brings skills and experience in developing mental health services that are values driven and supportive of clinicians so that they can do their best work. In 2008 Dr Bywater established Centre Point Psycholology, where she continues to lead and support a team of psychologists with a reputation for high-quality, trauma-informed mental health treatments and strong values in client care. Bernadette previously held positions in private hospital eating disorder inpatient and day patient programs, community and government settings in Australia and the UK and as a consultant psychologist to various bariatric clinics.
In addition to her work with general adult mental health, Dr Bywater is a certified psychedelic assisted therapy provider, credentialed through the Integrative Psychiatry Institute (USA). She has lectured on the IPI Psychedelic Therapy Training course, presented at the Psychedelic Sciences conference in Denver 2025 and presented on the work of EvolutionMET at the Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Research in The Netherlands 2026.
In her own work with clients, Dr Bywater has a warm, caring and non-judgemental approach and believes in working collaboratively so that clients are actively involved in the direction of their therapy. Dr Bywater values learning from the life experience and strengths of each person she works with to individually tailor their treatment program to meet their therapeutic goals. She encourages the understanding of mental health symptoms in the context of the life experiences of each person, including their social and cultural context. She supports the ability of the individual to define their own recovery and to determine the pathway towards it.
Dr Bywater is committed to ongoing professional training and clinical supervision as well as personal development and reflection in order to effectively serve the clients and organisations she works with. For medicine enhanced therapy, Dr Bywater also has supervision from a number of international practitioners in the field.
