About Lucy
Lucy’s full registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) includes an endorsement for Health Psychology. She holds a Master of Psychology (Counselling) and a PGDipPsych, BA(Psych), is a full member of the Australian Psychological Society (APS), Fellow of the College of Health Psychologists, and an International Affiliate of the American Psychological Association.
Additionally, Lucy has served on academic and advisory boards and APS Special Interest Groups, is a multimedia and academic consultant, a registered professional supervisor, and has presented at conferences on topics including Health Psychology, Health Promotion, Emotional Intelligence, and Behavioural Medicine.
On a personal note, Lucy is passionate about helping individuals, couples and families and never ceases to be impressed by the extraordinary resilience and resourcefulness that can be found in people who seek help from a psychologist.
She has been in private psychology practice since 2007 and she works with adults, adolescents/teens, and children.
Lucy enjoys collaborating with teams of medical practitioners to help deliver the best possible treatment outcomes to all patients. Her treatment approach is integrative and developmental, taking into account individual lifespan development, developmental psychopathology and family lifecycle.
Psychological solutions may combine multiple perspectives and frameworks ranging from providing consultancy to managing challenging situations and behaviours, psychoeducation for stress and coping, life skills training, emotional coaching, conscious relaxation techniques, mindfulness skills, counselling in lifecycle transitions that invoke grief responses, cognitive restructuring, re-storying dominant narratives, to psychodynamic interventions, as appropriate.
Lucy’s Career
In her undergraduate years, Lucy majored in Psychology and Philosophy and later moved on to complete a Postgraduate Diploma in Psychology and a Counselling Psychology master’s program. She conducted research into the factors associated with violent behaviours in men as part of her study, and investigated the aspects of entrainment and empathy and its association with peak experiences in music.
She was appointed Lecturer in Behavioural Sciences at The University of Sydney in 2009, and later was promoted to the Head of Discipline (Behavioural Sciences) at The University of Sydney.
She developed an innovative teaching curriculum and supervised and mentored tutors in delivering clinical workshops utilising SIM patients. Additionally, she served as a member of the Academic Board of The University of Sydney, and of the Selection Panel for interviews of candidates applying for postgraduate admission into the program of Medicine and Dentistry, over a period of 10 years.
Lucy’s Special Interests
- emotional disorders (Anxiety, Depression, OCD)
- developmental disorders (ADHD- all ages, Autism Spectrum Disorder)
- eating disorders
- trauma
- grief & loss
- relationship problems
- workplace issues (Employee Assistance programs)
Lucy’s Treatment Approaches
Being a psychologist, Lucy is a behavioural expert, and unlike medical practitioners, she does not prescribe medication. Instead, the interventions and treatments offered are evidence-based focused psychological strategies delivered predominantly in a “talk” therapy mode that many patients (including some very young ones) find quite agreeable as a form of active treatment.
Lucy utilises many treatment approaches including individual psychotherapy, psychodynamic therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), DBT, Narrative Therapy, relationship counselling, and Family Systems Therapy.
Wherever research evidence is lacking, best practice based on available clinical literature and experience is offered. Lucy undertakes to bring a warm attitude and compassionate understanding to the sessions and aims to provide the highest level of care to her clients.
Lucy is available face-to-face, or via Zoom or phone, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
To make appointments or find out more about Lucy, please call our friendly receptionists on (07) 3831 4452, or contact us via email.