About Suzanne Robertson
More than 25 years of practice, built around one conviction: work-related psychological harm is real, common, and something psychology can work with.
Suzanne Robertson · Registered Psychologist · Board-approved supervisor
What I do
I’m a registered psychologist, and my work centres on workplace 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.
That is the centre of the practice, not its edge. I also work with adults on PTSD and complex trauma, anxiety and depression, adjustment difficulties, neurodivergence, and significant life and health transitions — and I provide psychological assessment for adults, including adult ADHD diagnostic assessment.
How I got here
Over more than 25 years, I’ve worked across workplace rehabilitation, psychological injury, disability and support services, employee assistance programs and private practice. This has given me experience with psychological injury from several sides — clinical care, rehabilitation, return to work and the systems that sit around them.
That experience continues to shape my practice. When someone is dealing with workplace psychological harm, the injury itself is often only part of what they are carrying. WorkCover processes, workplace responses, return-to-work arrangements and investigations can all affect recovery. Understanding that wider context matters.
Alongside psychology, I hold a Bachelor of Biomedical Science. That grounding in the biology of stress is part of why BioPsyche is neuro-informed in substance, not just in name. Burnout, shutdown, hypervigilance and overwhelm are not character flaws. They make more sense when we understand what the brain and nervous system have been responding to.
I’m also writing a book on burnout, moral injury and the systemic causes of practitioner distress, and I run Still Cracked, an education platform on workplace psychological harm for people who want to understand it in their own time.
Why “BioPsyche”
Bio is the body — the nervous system, immune system and hormones that shape how we think, feel and function — and it is also a life story. Psyche is the old Greek word for soul, and the root of psychology. Together they say what this practice tries to hold: that science and story both matter, that body and mind are not separate, and that the person in front of me is a whole person. Neuro-informed. Soul conscious. Heart-centred.
How I work
My approach is collaborative and practical. What we focus on, and how we approach it, depends on what has happened, what you are dealing with now, and what you need from therapy.
The approaches I draw on include EMDR, Schema Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Compassion-Focused Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and strengths-based approaches — selected according to your needs.
Four ways to work with me
Psychological Therapy — assessment and treatment of psychological difficulties.
Assessments — psychological assessment for adults tailored to the question, including adult ADHD diagnostic assessment.
Professional Supervision, Consultation & Reflective Practice — independent psychologist-led professional consultation and reflective practice for helping professionals and, by enquiry, for teams; not therapy, and not a substitute for supervision your profession may require.
Psychology Supervision & Professional Consultation — Board-approved supervision within my approved supervision categories, and independent professional consultation for registered psychologists at any stage of practice.
Practical details
BioPsyche is my online psychology practice, with appointments provided by telehealth across Australia.
Registered Psychologist, AHPRA. Board-approved supervisor, Psychology Board of Australia. Sessions are online, Australia-wide, by secure video or phone. Appointments can be paid for privately; Medicare rebates apply to eligible psychological therapy with a GP referral and Mental Health Treatment Plan; WorkCover, other insurer-funded services where approved, DVA, NDIS (self- and plan-managed) and EAP or other third-party funded services by arrangement. See Fees.
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