Joyce works with adolescents aged 16+ years and adults, helping to build skills to improve wellbeing, mental health, and performance. She has worked a a fully-qualified Clinical Psychologist for over 15 years, and is well-experienced in working with the following presentations:

1. Social anxiety, fear of negative judgement, low self-esteem. Joyce helps those experiencing social anxiety to shift unhelpful thoughts, reduce avoidance, and build positive coping skills to improve their overall quality of life. 

2. Burnout, perfectionism, and resilience. 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 as a self-help book to help individuals adopt a more sustainable approach to high performance. 

3. Phobias. Phobias can be extremely debilitating, and Joyce helps individuals reduce their fear and avoidance of a range of phobias, including agoraphobia, needles, spiders, driving, and heights using cognitive restructuring and exposure therapy. She also has a keen interest in public speaking anxiety (we run Speaking Volumes, a public speaking anxiety course). 

4. Doctors and allied health professionals. Joyce has assisted medical and allied health professionals on a range of issues including burnout, managing work/life balance, exam preparation and anxiety (including clinical/viva), assertive communication in a work context, and self-management skills. She has also been a guest speaker and panellist at medical student events regarding the above topics.

5. Students. 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’). She has also co-authored Nimble Noodle, an online study, exam preparation, and exam anxiety course. 

6. Perinatal anxiety and depression, including psychological adjustment to pregnancy, birth, and parenthood in the early years. Joyce has a particular interest in helping those with a history of anxiety, depression, or high expectations/perfectionism prepare psychologically for the significant changes ahead of them. She is also registered with Medicare to provide Non-directive Pregnancy Counselling support.

Joyce’s 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. 

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Joyce 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 thesis examined the relationship between anxiety and working memory. Joyce has also worked for many years at University Counselling Services both in Perth and Sydney and is familiar with the unique issues facing this population.

In addition to her clinical work Joyce also supervises Clinical Psychology Registrars, provides consultation to organisations regarding their wellbeing and mental health programs, and leads our corporate workshops program.

Joyce’s clinic days are Monday (all day, including after hours) and Friday AM.

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