We All Wear It Differently - A Podcast for Early Career Psychologists

Tim Cotter is an organisational and environmental psychologist who specialises in the psychology of sustainability. Tim started out in the early 1990’s applying psychology to organisations, through psychometric assessments, organisational surveys, and facilitating culture change and values development.

Meanwhile, he had a growing awareness that sustainability was the biggest change project the world needed, and that psychology would need to be a significant contributor. As a result he started a consulting business Awake, where he provides training, research, design, assessment and consulting services to organisations and communities seeking to create a culture of sustainability.

Since its beginnings in 2005, Awake has delivered projects, workshops and consulting services to hundreds of sustainability professionals and dozens of organisations throughout the world.

With a passion for translating psychological research into accessible, practical concepts, Tim speaks and writes prolifically on the topic, with over 1500 sustainability professionals subscribing to his monthly newsletter, Wake-Up Call.

Tim is a pioneer of the field. So lets see how we all wear it differently with Tim Cotter.

Visit the website to check out all the links that Tim spoke about and her best self-care tip for early career psychologists.

Tony Trevitt is a School Psychologist who currently works at Mount Lilydale Mercy College, a position he has held for five years. Tony works with a team of 3 psychologists and a student wellbeing co-ordinator. The team services a school population of 1450 students and works primarily from an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) framework.

Before returning to university as a mature age student Tony has a long and successful career as a primary school teacher and then School Principal, a position he held for 20 years. Tony completed his Post-Graduate Diploma of Psychology in 2009 and Masters of Counselling Psychology in 2013 at Swinburne University in Melbourne.

In addition to working as a School Psychologist, Tony works in private practice and has a special interest in mens mental health, stress management, mindfulness and autism spectrum disorders.

Visit the website to check out all the links that Tony spoke about and his best self-care tip!

Justine Tonner-Joyce is a registered psychologist with over 15 years experience working with young people and adults in clinical, educational and private practice settings. Justine currently works at Melbourne Girls Grammar School in Melbourne, Victoria, where she has worked for the past 10 years. Justine began her career the Albert Road Centre for Health as a probationary psychologist working with high-risk adolescents in the later 1990’s.

Justine completed her Graduate Diploma of Educational Psychology and Masters of Counselling Psychology at Monash University and is a Member Australian Psychological Society and an affiliate member of the APS College of Sports Psychology.

Whilst training to become a psychologist Justine was also training and competing as an elite rower becoming a world champion and world record holder in the women’s lightweight pair. She was recently inducted into the Rowing Victoria Hall of fame.

Justines Suggested Resources

• The School Counselling and School Social Work Treatment Planner, Knapp & Jongsma
• Reachout.com for professionals and young people
• smilingmind.com.au mindfulness app
• tuningintokids.org.au emotion coaching for parents

Visit the website to check out all the links that Justine spoke about and her best self-care tip for early career psychologists.

Eddie Tsang is a Neuropsychology Registrar with 4 years experience in the field of public mental health. He currently works at Dandenong Hospital Secure Extended Care Unit (SECU) and Dandenong Adult Mental Health Service, both part of Monash Health. His clients typically are individuals with chronic and unremitting mental health problems.

Eddie completed his Bachelor of Behavioural Neuroscience and then his Postgraduate Diploma of Psychology at Monash University, in Melbourne Victoria. He completed his Masters of Clinical Neuropsychology at Melbourne University in 2011.

Previous to his current roles at Monash Health Eddie worked in the following areas:

• as a Neuorpsychology registrar at the Community Brain Disorders Assessment and Treatment Service (CBDATS), part of the Royal Talbot Rehabilitation Centre.
• as a Neuorpsychology registrar at the Acquired Brain Injury Community Integration and Support Service, part of the Royal Talbot Rehabilitation Centre.
• as a psychologist out of university was as an Adult Mental Health Clinician with SouthWest Healthcare, Warrnambool in country Victoria.

During his university training Eddie worked as a Healthscope Community Programs Support Worker for people with acquired brain injury for 7 years, which he says is where he developed a passion for Neuro-psycologiy and in particular an interest in individuals with ABI. He believes this early practical experience in the industry, although not directly related to psychology, helped him develop clinical skills that cannot be learnt in a text book and he says the strength of our life experience is critical to our development as effective practitioners.

Visit the website to check out all the link that Eddie spoke abut and his best self-care tip for early career psychologists!

Pippa Grange is a Doctor of Applied Psychology, working primarily at Cotton On Group as the GM People + Culture. Pippa has previously worked with elite sport, in the culture, ethics and leadership areas. With over twelve years experience in the public and private sectors, she has consolidated her career internationally as an expert in the field.

At Cotton On Group Pippa is General Manager People + Culture, heading up the HR, Recruitment, Common Café, Health + Wellbeing and COG University teams with a vision to grow beyond.

At Bluestone Edge, Pippa and her team of consultants, worked with some of the key brands in Australian and New Zealand sport, notably AFL Football, Rugby League and Olympic Sport in the areas of people development, strategic leadership and governance, culture change projects, stakeholder engagement, policy development and the creation of high performing, functioning and culturally sound environments.

Pippa is also an international keynote speaker on the culture and ethics of sport and supports organisations, athletes and leaders in sport to sustain their best performances whilst broadening the definition of sporting success. This global preventative work on the health of sport itself, Pippa believes, can be a medium for valuable public conversations and societal change. Pippa's professional memberships include the Australian Psychological Society and the St. James Ethics Centre.

Learn more about Dr Pippa Grange on Linked In.

Visit the website to check out Pippa's best self-care tip and to post a comment!

Sheridan Meulblok is a psychologist who provides compassionate, evidence based psychological treatment for Eating Disorders and associated conditions from her consulting rooms in Warrnambool, Victoria. She also accepts referrals for more general mental health concerns. Her approach encompasses the values of balance, compassion and inspiration to support the restoration of health and the return of a meaningful, wholehearted life for her clients.

Sheridan draws practice wisdom from over 17 years of clinical experience using a range of evidence based interventions including Acceptance Commitment Therapy, Mindfulness and Self-Compassion, Narrative Therapy, Positive Psychology and CBT. Sheridan spent much of her career working with Children and Adolescents at Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), and more recently Headspace. Sheridan has provided consultation in relation to eating disorders to

• ABC
• 3AW
• Marie-Claire
• YMCA
• Kids Go For Your Life and
• the Victorian Government

She has presented at numerous national conferences and has publicly spoken in hundreds of schools, universities and gyms about the prevention of eating disorders. Sheridan also provides reflective and clinical supervision to professionals working in the health and community sector. Clients have included

• South West Healthcare
• Ballarat Health
• Department of Justice
• headspace
• Bethany
• The Place2Be and
• Private psychologists.

Coaching is offered for those seeking support to "live the life you've always imagined". Sessions focus on turning dreams, ideas & aspirations into tangible goals whilst using creative and practical approaches to overcome obstacles that present along the way.

• Self-compassion based therapy: http://self-compassion.org/
• Keeping yourself accountable in psychological treatment and ensuring what you do works: http://www.scottdmiller.com/performance-metrics/
• Owning our Shame, Vulnerability and moving beyond perfectionism: http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_listening_to_shame

• Finding a beautiful empowering therapeutic language: Maps of Narrative Practice, Michael White (2007)
• On the challenges of being a therapist that no one talks about: On Being a Therapist, Jeffery A Kottler (1986)
• Deepening your understanding of the dynamics between a therapist and client: Between Therapist and Client, A New Relationship, Michael Kahn (1997)
• The best ACT text I've come across to support practical skill development: Learning ACT, An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Skills -Training Manual for Therapists, Luoma, Hayes & Walser (2007)

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Take great holidays - somewhere away from home, hot and restful. And turn your phone off while your there! Maintain strong social connections outside of work with friends and family. Have your own supervision.

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Dr Angela Nickerson is a Senior lecturer at the School of Psychology, UNSW Australia, and Director of the Refugee Trauma and Recovery Program. Her research focuses on understanding the psychological mechanisms underpinning refugee and post-conflict mental health, and developing effective interventions for traumatic stress reactions in refugees. She is also interested in the impact of policy on refugee mental health, and cross-cultural considerations in psychological processes. She has worked with numerous refugee and post-conflict populations in Australia, Switzerland, the United States, and Timor Leste.

Prior to taking up her position at the University of NSW, Angela conducted post-doctoral research at Harvard University and Boston University, investigating psychological responses to loss and trauma. She is a practising clinical psychologist specialising in traumatic stress reactions. At the University of NSW, Angela is involved in training therapists on the Master of Clinical Psychology program, lecturing on anxiety and mood disorders, traumatic stress responses, refugee mental health, and cross-cultural considerations in mental health.

Visit the website to check out all the links that Angela spoke about and her best self-care tip.

Helen Mentha is a registered clinical psychologist and member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT Inc). She currently runs her own private consultancy Menther Consulting where she provides Specialist Training in Motivational Interviewing and consultation. Prior to this Helen worked for many years in the drug and alcohol field as a counsellor, dual diagnosis senior clinician, manager and supervisor.

Helen is committed to ethical, respectful person-centred care and brings this ethos to her clinical and supervision practice, training and consultation. She is a highly experienced and sought after facilitator with a reputation for accessible, engaging, well-informed and practical training in a positive learning environment. She has trained professionals from a diverse range of backgrounds and areas of focus, including drug and alcohol, mental health, medical and nursing, allied health, community welfare, aged care, forensic, education and corporate settings. She has provided training across Australia and in China and has collaborated with colleagues from Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States and China to provide training and program development.

Helen told me she’s counted 400 days of her life that she's spent standing in front of large groups of people and speaking, and for a self-described introvert, she says she is still amazed by this. According to Helen curiosity about her self, others and the world, as well as playing to her strengths, have helped her to achieve this which she so generously discusses throughout the interview.

Check out Part 2 of this interview with Helen Menther to hear more about motivational interviewing.

Remember to visit the website to check out all the links Helen talked about and her best self-care tip for early career psychologists.

Helen Mentha is a registered clinical psychologist and member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT Inc). She currently runs her own private consultancy Menther Consulting where she provides Specialist Training in Motivational Interviewing and consultation. Prior to this Helen worked for many years in the drug and alcohol field as a counsellor, dual diagnosis senior clinician, manager and supervisor.

Helen is committed to ethical, respectful person-centred care and brings this ethos to her clinical and supervision practice, training and consultation. She is a highly experienced and sought after facilitator with a reputation for accessible, engaging, well-informed and practical training in a positive learning environment. She has trained professionals from a diverse range of backgrounds and areas of focus, including drug and alcohol, mental health, medical and nursing, allied health, community welfare, aged care, forensic, education and corporate settings. She has provided training across Australia and in China and has collaborated with colleagues from Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States and China to provide training and program development.

Helen told me she’s counted 400 days of her life that she's spent standing in front of large groups of people and speaking, and for a self-described introvert, she says she is still amazed by this. According to Helen curiosity about her self, others and the world, as well as playing to her strengths, have helped her to achieve this which she so generously discusses throughout the interview. So have a listen to find out how we all wear it differently with Helen Menther.

Check out the website for Helen's career tips, self-care tip and suggested rescources.

Matti Clements is a sports psychologist with over 15 years experience in the field. She is current the director and senior psychologist of Mental Edge Consulting, a consulting firm that aims to enhance performance, resilience, and wellbeing with professional athletes and coaches, corporate teams and management, or any person of any age wanting to reach their true performance potential.

Currently Matti is working with the St Kilda Football Club as the General Manager of People & Culture; developing and delivering culture and wellbeing strategies; she is also delivering a national emotional intelligence leadership program for high performance teams and selected leaders at Cricket Australia; and currently assisting the Australian Cricketers Association with their strategic planning for the national wellbeing and professional development programs and systems.

Recently Matti developed and rolled out the Netball Australia national wellbeing and professional development framework for players, coaches, management and staff and is working with Golf Australia to develop a national pathway of wellbeing service.

Previously, Matti was a Senior Performance Psychologist at the Australian Institute of Sport for 3 years before taking on the role of National Wellbeing Manager for the AFL Players Association.

Matti says one of the most important things for an early career psychologist is to not be constrained by what you think psychology is. She says psychology is many different things, can take you anywhere and that the psychologist’s skill set transgresses multiple industries where many creative jobs can blossom and bloom. Matti says we need to stay open minded and be creative. Matti’s career is a good example of this, so have a listen to see how we all wear it differently with Matti Clements.

Visit the website to check out all the links Matt spoke about and her best self-care tip.