Margo is the Founder of Open Sky Psychology. After 16 years of building this thriving multi-practitioner practice, she stepped down from her role as Director and is now semi-retired. She continues to work with a small number of private clients.
Drawing on her PhD research into adult development and change, Margo views many life dilemmas as meaningful calls to action—opportunities to engage more deeply with one’s own path of growth, maturity, and wisdom. She supports clients to explore and confront fundamental questions about meaning and purpose with curiosity and self-compassion.
Margo understands anxiety and depression as natural aspects of the human experience, which can often signal the beginning of a transition into a new life stage and a fresh perspective.
Her online course, Adult Ego Development: Stages on the Path to Personal Growth, introduces a lesser-known developmental framework that explores how transformation can occur throughout adulthood. Her PhD research examined this theory in depth, including whether moments of insight or profound realisation can accelerate what is typically a gradual, stage-based process of change.
Over three decades of reading and research have shaped Margo’s interest in the parallels between contemporary psychological theories—including recent findings in neuroscience—and the insights found in ancient traditions of mind, particularly Buddhism.
Areas of interest:
- Life purpose and direction
- Anxiety and depression
- Adult development and growth
- Relationships
- Work–life balance
- Grief and loss
- Existential questions
- Buddhism and neuroscience
Margo’s Qualifications
- PhD (Sense of Self, Adult Change and Development), Macquarie University
Thesis focused on sudden moments of insight and their role in ego development (adult personal growth). Awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s Commendation for a doctoral thesis of exceptional merit. - BA Communication (Journalism), Mitchell College of Advanced Education
- Member of the Australian Psychological Society (MAPS)
- Member, APS College of Counselling Psychologists
- Registered Psychologist (AHPRA)
- Medicare-registered provider
