dr joyce chong
Clinical Psychologist
BSc(Hons), MPsych(Clinical), PhD, MAPS(FCCLP)
Joyce (she/her) is a warm and practical Clinical Psychologist who enjoys helping people get the most out of their lives.
She recognises that leading a productive and fulfilling life draws on improving mental health, boosting positive wellbeing, and developing skills to enhance performance and the daily experience.
joyce’s areas of interest
Joyce has a keen interest in helping individuals to enhance their daily lives. She helps people gain insight into their current circumstances, and to build skills to improve their wellbeing, mental health, and performance.
Joyce’s clinic days are Monday (all day, including after hours) and Friday AM. Book online with Joyce using the button below, or Contact Us if you are new to The Skill Collective or have not seen Joyce before.
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Joyce helps those with maladaptive perfectionism move from burnout towards a more sustainable life through shifting identity and mindset, and developing helpful coping strategies.
She has also written Planet Burnout, a self-help book to help individuals adopt a more sustainable approach to high performance.
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Joyce helps those experiencing social anxiety to navigate their daily lives by shifting unhelpful thoughts, reducing avoidance, and building social skills.
She is co-author of Social Set, our social anxiety course that takes a structured, skills-based approach to reducing social anxiety and increasing comfort in social settings.
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Public speaking is an often unavoidable aspect of life - giving updates on work projects, being called upon in class, speaking at a friend’s event. A fear of public speaking can result in feeling stagnant in your career, or held back from a fulfilling social life.
Joyce developed Speaking Volumes to help individuals reduce their anxiety when it comes to public speaking, drawing on CBT and focusing on shifting mindset, building presentation skills, and reducing avoidance.
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Joyce has assisted medical and allied health professionals with a range of issues including:
Burnout and managing work/life balance
Exam preparation and anxiety (including clinical/vivas)
Job interview preparation
Perfectionism, impostor syndrome, and compassion fatigue
Self-management skills
Navigating life events - career shifts, new work roles, career-breaks to start families
Joyce has also been a presenter and panellist regarding the above topics.
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Joyce has extensive experience working in the area of exam anxiety, helping students to organise their studies, study strategically, and to work sustainably towards exam time and avoid burnout.
She recommends that students look at working on exam anxiety several months ahead of exams in order to set up good study habits and effectively practice exam anxiety techniques.
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Clinical perfectionism can have a negative impact on life and mood, from experiencing frustrations and disappointments when expectations aren’t met, to anxiety and burnout in the pursuit of unrealistic expectations.
Joyce can help individuals feeling the strain of their unrealistic standards to live more sustainably.
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Phobias can be extremely debilitating - being unable to go into a high rise building because of a fear of heights, struggling in small spaces, constantly scanning the room for spiders, or struggling to have blood tests done.
Joyce helps individuals reduce their fear and avoidance of a range of phobias using cognitive restructuring and exposure therapy.
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Joyce has a long history helping students navigate this period of their lives and the challenges that they bring, whether they are:
Interpersonal (communication, relationships),
Intrapersonal (perfectionism, procrastination, time management, study skills, underlying mental health issues), or
Situational (adjusting to life events, preparing to enter the workforce, ‘adulting’).
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about joyce
Joyce has worked a a Clinical Psychologist for 20 years, and has extensive experience working with particular populations including university students (having worked in University Counselling Services), medical doctors and allied health professionals, and academics.
Her therapeutic approach is one grounded in evidence-based research and informed by clinical experience. She draws on techniques from Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Exposure Therapy, Psychological Skills Training, Positive Psychology, Solution-focused Therapy, and Mindfulness.
She trained at The University of Western Australia where she gained her Bachelor of Science (with Honours), Master of Clinical Psychology, and Doctor of Philosophy. Her PhD examined the relationship between anxiety and working memory, and led to an interest in the topic of exam and performance anxiety.
In addition to her clinical work Joyce is also a Board-Approved Supervisor (of clinical psychology registrars and provisional psychologists), provides consultation to organisations on wellbeing and mental health matters, and leads our corporate workshops program. She is sought after as a facilitator.
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