Dr Marnie Cumner
Dr Marnie Cumner is a Clinical Neuropsychologist on the Sunshine Coast. She has specialised training in understanding how brain function affects a person’s thinking, emotions, and behaviour.
Dr Marnie’s speciality is paediatric neuropsychology, which focuses on understanding how a child’s brain development affects their thinking, learning, behaviour, social and emotional functioning.
Dr Marnie provides assessment and diagnostic services for children and young people. She investigates their thinking skills, like memory, attention, language and problem-solving, as well as their social and emotional well-being, academic performance, and behaviour.
Once we have learned more about a child’s individual strengths and challenges (we all have some of both!), Dr Marnie offers ideas, strategies, and a plan on how best to support the child or young person at home and school.
Dr Marnie uses a strengths-based model of assessment, which focuses on using a child’s strengths to minimise their challenges. She also is strongly committed to a neuro-affirming approach, which means embracing each child’s particular brain type and not seeing differences as deficits.
Dr Marnie accepts referrals from parents, teachers, allied health professionals, and doctors.