Jay is a Registered Psychologist, Clinical Supervisor, Registered Counsellor and experienced Play Therapist. She practices in southwest Western Australia at the Southwest Wellbeing Centre, where she manages a small team of clinicians in a multi disciplinary team. Jay has worked in the Human Services field for about 30 years, of which the last 15 years have involved therapeutic work. Jay's passion is "making a difference" and she works with adults as well as children. She has a strong interest in Animal Assisted Therapy and her therapy dog has engaged in therapy with her for around 10 years now. Jay had an interesting pathway which included working in child protection, becoming a specialist interviewer of children (with the WA police) and a strong focus on child counselling. Nowadays, she works across the life span with several special interests across the field of psychology. You will find Jay at www.swwellbeing.com.au

I am a Cisgender Gay Male psychologist, who started his Psychology training and career as a mature-aged student. I previously worked in both Blue- and White-collar jobs. Since starting the registration process, I have worked in various work environments, including co-facilitating a Domestic Violence group (for mandated clients) and co-facilitating an AOD group in a prison farm setting. I started my psychologist journey as a Gay man who (at that stage) had volunteered for a few decades on an LGBTIQ+ phone helpline. This resulted at about 30+ years with being rewarded with life membership of the organisation. Nowadays, I’m still volunteering there, albeit in a different role at present. I have also, from time to time written many articles for a local LGBTIQ+ newspaper/blog. In my work role, I run my own sole practitioner psychology and clinical hypnotherapy practice and am registered to provide AHPRA supervision for provisional psychologists.

With 30 years in the public sector, Ann has enjoyed a diverse psychology career. She has worked as a psychologist in public schools and more specialised education settings in metropolitan Perth and the far north of Western Australia, and in policy and strategy roles. Ann’s current role with the Office of the Chief Psychologist sees her working alongside universities and the profession to grow the number of psychologists in public schools and support their transition to the education context. She’s passionate about the unique role of school psychologists, who work not only with students with complex support needs, but collaboratively with school staff and leaders as coaches and consultants. The Department of Education’s workforce of more than 625 school psychologists extend the skills and capacity of the education system to better support educational outcomes for all students. Ann holds qualifications in psychology and teaching and is a graduate of QUT’s Public Sector Management Program.

A School Psychologist by trade, with an unusual pathway through the public education sector (traversing Albany to Broome) including management and strategic roles, working with specialist behaviour teams, designing and implementing community programs and supporting teams to navigate systems change, as well as facilitating the learning and development of others.

I am a Registered Psychologist and owner of a private practice in Perth. I have worked as a psychologist in a range of sectors including the not-for-profit sector, private hospital, corrections and private practice. My passion for psychology developed over the years, whilst having a varied career history, spanning from flight attending to hospitality. I have always found that my colourful career has helped me to relate better to my patients in one way or another. I am passionate about working in the relationship and psychosexual space having achieved additional qualifications in this space. Becoming a Board Approved Supervisor was an important goal for me as I wanted to give to future psychologists the same guidance and support I received from my supervisors during my internship.