Daphne Hewson PhD

Daf recently retired from a position as Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Macquarie University on the PG Diploma of Applied Psychology (Psychology registration) programs and the Master of Social Health (specialist strands in Drugs and Alcohol, Child Protection, Indigenous Health, Psychology registration).   She was previously Director of the Clinical Psychology program at Macquarie University She adopts a narrative approach, specialising in supervision, grief and trauma, motivational interviewing, and drug and alcohol counselling.  

Daf designed the Board’s supervision workshops and conducted the train-the-trainer workshop early in 2006 to prepare a team of Psychologists to present the workshops during 2006 and 2007.   Over the last 20 years she has presented many supervision workshops around Australia and NZ including specialist packages for NSW Health and NZ Ministry of Education.  Her Supervision Triangle and the Supervision Structure diagrams can be downloaded from her website: www.dhewson.com.

Supervision publications:

Hewson, D. (1999) Empowerment in Supervision.  Feminism and Psychology, 9 (4) 406-409.

Conti, J., Hewson, D. and Isben, J.  (2001) Power, voice and connection.  In Alison Bartlett and Gina Mercer (eds.) Practising Postgraduate Pedagogy. Open University Press.

Hewson (2002) Supervision of Psychologists: A Supervision Triangle.  In M.McMahon & W. Patton (eds.), Supervision in the Helping Professions: A Practical Approach, Pearson Education, Sydney.

Anne Lipzker is a clinical psychologist, trained in Montreal and Melbourne, and is currently the Coordinator Child & Adolescent Mental Health on the NSW North Coast. She has experience in clinical, teaching, policy, & administration in early childhood, child & family, youth &adult mental health and psychology services. Anne also has broad experience in the provision and organization of professional development and support.

She moved to the NSW North Coast about 20 years ago from Melbourne. This experience has led her to believe that there are both significant differences and considerable strengths in the provision of rural health and psychology services when compared with metropolitan-based practice. She has worked to ensure that these differences are more clearly recognised and acknowledged in the planning and provision of high-quality clinical and support services in a rural setting.

Chris Willcox

Chris is a senior clinical psychologist at the Centre for Psychotherapy, Head of Discipline (Psychology) Hunter New England Mental Health, conjoint senior lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Newcastle and a psychotherapy educator for the Hunter New England psychiatry training program.

His primary clinical focus is the provision of psychotherapeutic interventions for people with personality disorders, in particular, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder.

He has an ongoing interest in the provision of supervision and consultation both at a registration supervision level and to those working with complex mental health presentations.

As a university conjoint, he provides research supervision and has lectured on personality disorders, group interventions, risk assessment/management, DBT,  human sexuality and counseling.