About Suzanne
Twenty-five years of practice, built around one conviction: work-related psychological harm is real, common, and treatable.
What I do
I’m a registered psychologist, and my work centres on occupational psychological harm — burnout, moral injury, workplace trauma, and the injuries that work systems leave in people. I work with adults across Australia, many of them helping professionals: teachers, nurses, clinicians, support workers, public servants, emergency services personnel. People who held things together for everyone else until the cost caught up with them.
I also continue to support adults with anxiety, depression, menopause-related changes and identity concerns, and I provide adult ADHD and autism assessments.
How I got here
Over twenty-five years, my work has run through workplace rehabilitation, psychological injury, disability and support services, employee assistance programs, and private practice. I’ve sat in nearly every chair in the work-injury system — assessing, rehabilitating, supporting, reporting. That history shapes how I practise now: I understand what WorkCover processes, return-to-work plans, and HR investigations actually feel like from the inside, and I know how often the system around an injury becomes part of the injury.
Alongside psychology, I hold a Bachelor of Biomedical Science. That grounding in the biology of stress is why BioPsyche is neuro-informed in substance, not just in name: burnout, shutdown, hypervigilance and overwhelm are not character flaws or thinking errors. They are nervous system states — predictable, explainable, and workable.
I’m currently writing a book on burnout, moral injury and the systemic causes of practitioner distress, and developing Still Cracked, an education and prevention program for workplaces and the professions that carry the most.
How I work
The order of operations matters more than any single technique: safety before change, regulation before insight, compassion before correction. Sessions are steady and collaborative. We move at the pace your nervous system can actually use — which, for most people recovering from occupational harm, is the first time anyone has let them.
The approaches I draw on include EMDR, Schema Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Compassion-Focused Therapy, Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy and strength-based approaches — selected for you, not applied by default.
Supervision and professional work
I’m a Board-Approved Supervisor with the Psychology Board of Australia, providing clinical supervision to provisional, early-career and registered psychologists, and reflective supervision to counsellors, social workers and support workers. Supervision with me pays particular attention to the supervisee’s own occupational wellbeing — because the people doing this work are exposed to the same harms as the people they serve.
Practical details
Registered Psychologist, AHPRA. Medicare rebates available with a GP Mental Health Treatment Plan. WorkCover, insurer and NDIS (self- and plan-managed) referrals accepted. Face-to-face in Mooloolaba; phone and video Australia-wide.
Work with me
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