Biography

Dr Amy Talbot - Senior Clinical Psychologist, Founder & Director of Clinical Services

Amy is a warm, friendly and approachable clinical psychologist with a passion for assisting patients of all ages to make valued life changes, enhance their social and emotional wellbeing and reach their full potential. Her compassionate and genuine approach instantly puts people of all ages at ease and helps to create a safe place for patients to explore their concerns and share openly about themselves in order to develop practical and collaborative strategies to change their lives for the better.

Amy has worked in a variety of clinical and research settings including inpatient, day patient and outpatient hospital services, university student services and group private practices including specialist eating disorder services and services that provide mental health supports for neurodivergent clients. She has also held multiple roles in tertiary education and recently held a position as a Senior Lecturer teaching in all 4 postgraduate psychology programs at the Australian College of Applied Professions.

Amy is passionate about inclusive care and works from a body positive, neurodiversity affirming and trauma-informed perspective with all clients, placing a high value on client autonomy and the importance of partnering with clients, valuing their lived experience as an expert in their own life. Amy is a Christian and works with patients who wish to see a psychologist with a shared faith and world view. She is also a registered provider for the Australian Institute of Sport Mental Health Referral Network.

Amy is a passionate and experienced supervisor and trainer. These areas of practice have been a strong focus of her clinical work for the last 5 years. You can read more about her supervisory style and experience here or continue and read below.

Amy has a keen interest in mental health research and regularly publishes in high quality, peer-reviewed academic journals and presents her research nationally and internationally in her areas of clinical interest.

Amy is a strong advocate for systematic change in healthcare. She believes that our healthcare system is ineffective at truly meeting the needs of our community and has been involved at a policy level in shaping the future of healthcare to facilitate small changes in a positive direction.

In her role as Director of The Talbot Centre, Amy oversees the clinical governance and strategic development of the service; she is involved in the development of new initiatives in collaboration with those with lived experience to ensure we offer tailored services that meet community needs at all levels of healthcare (prevention through to intervention). Her aim is to continue to challenge the healthcare paradigm and move healthcare forward in our approach at TTC to lead the way in the evolution of person-centred healthcare.

Amy was awarded the Inaugural Australian Psychologist of the Year award at the 2018 Allied Health Awards and has won multiple other awards in recognition for her work in psychology, leadership and business.

Special Interests

• Eating Disorders & Body Image Concerns
• Feeding Disorders (inc. ARFID and PFD)
• Anxiety Disorders including Situational Mutism
• Tic Disorders & Tourette Syndrome
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Trichotillomania & Body Focused Repetitive Behaviours
• Body Dysmorphia
• PANS/PANDAS
• Parenting
• Academic Stress
• Adjustment to Young Adulthood
• Autism
• Child & Family presentations
• Enhancing Performance and working with elite athletes
• Working with creatives
• Therapy for health professionals

Therapy Approaches

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• Family Based Therapy and Maudsley Family Based Treatment (MFBT)
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy – Enhanced (CBT-E)
• Specialist Supportive Clinical Management (SSCM)
• Maudsley Model of Anorexia Treatment for Adults (MANTRA)
• Schema Therapy
• Motivational Interviewing
• Exposure and Responsive Prevention (ERP)
• Responsive Feeding Therapy
• Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) & Radically Open Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (RO-DBT)
• Comprehensive Behavioural Intervention for Tics (CBIT)

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Arts – Psychology (Hons) – Macquarie University
• Master of Science – Sydney University
• Doctorate in Clinical Psychology – Sydney University
• Certified SOS Feeding Therapist – Sequential Oral Sensory (SOS) Approach to Feeding
• Certified Tuning into Kids Presenter

Memberships & Registrations

• Psychology Board of Australia (Registration Number: PSY0001634694)
• Australian Psychological Society (Member)
• Australian Clinical Psychology Association (Member)
• Australia and New Zealand Association for Eating Disorders (Member)
• Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician
• National Eating Disorders Collaboration (Member)

Dr Amy Talbot - Clinical Director, Senior Clinical Psychologist & Board Approved Supervisor

Amy is a warm, compassionate and supportive Clinical Psychologist with over a decade of clinical and supervisory experience. 

Amy firmly believes that clinical supervision is a focused area of practice; just as working with specific client groups or within specific therapeutic modalities requires focused training and professional development, Amy has focused the last 5 years of her practice on her personal and professional development as a supervisor. Amy has had the privilege of supporting hundreds of individual clinicians nationwide in supervision, coaching and mentoring, as well as providing supervision to multiple teams in community, non-government and educational settings. She has also taught in the psychology programs across 5 NSW tertiary education institutions and has held a prior position as a Senior Lecturer at the Australian College of Applied Professions, teaching and supervising across all 3 of their postgraduate psychology programs.

Amy enjoys supporting healthcare professionals at all levels of career development to enhance their clinical practice, developing themselves personally and professionally, so that they can practice sustainably in ways that are personally meaningful to them. Amy matches her supervisory style to the developmental needs and goals of the supervisee, blending self-reflective practice with directive teaching in her niche areas of clinical practice. She enjoys focusing on both skill development and reflecting on relational and process elements of therapy with her supervisees.

Amy is available for ad hoc supervision about a particular case or clinical issue in her areas of clinical expertise, as well as an ongoing pattern of regular supervision. Amy is available to provide both individual and group supervision. Amy also provides business coaching and supervision blended with business coaching for sole practitioners and group practice owners. Amy is also available for research supervision in her areas of clinical interest.

Supervision Interests:

• Enhancing case conceptualisation skills
• Developing clinician self-care, sustainable practice and burnout prevention.
• Developing practitioner professional identity.
• Self-reflective practice.
• Working effectively in a multidisciplinary team.
• Clinical governance, management and leadership
• Career development
• Eating and Feeding Disorders including ARFID
• Obsessive compulsive and related disorders (inc tic disorders, BFRBs)
• Using systemic and attachment lenses to think about child and family work
• Working with neurodivergent clients within an affirming framework
• Supervision of supervision

Dr Amy Talbot can supervise the following health professionals:

• Provisional Psychologists undertaking the 4+2 or 5+1 internship program.
• Psychologists undertaking the Clinical Registrar Program.
• Clinical Psychology Masters students on placement or working in addition to placement.
• Fully registered psychologists and clinical psychologists.
• Board Approved Supervisors (supervision of supervision)
• Other Mental Health Professionals
• Healthcare professionals working with eating and feeding disorders e.g., dietitians, speech pathologists, OTs, GPs
• Business owners and health professionals in positions of leadership
• Christian healthcare professionals wanting support to work effectively with clients of a Christian faith
• Research students looking for secondary supervision on their thesis

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