It is my great pleasure to announce that Dr Sally Hunt will
be joining us as the new convenor of the Master of Professional Psychology.
Sally completed her Masters degree in Clinical Psychology in 2003 and
spent the first part of her career developing a solid foundation in clinical
psychology by working in inpatient and outpatient mental health services and
delivering psychological interventions in competitively funded randomised
controlled trials. Her clinical focus has been on child and adolescent mental health, and
comorbidly occurring conditions including affective disorders, psychosis,
personality disorders, and alcohol/other drug use problems. She has experience
in the use of neuropsychological assessment, cognitive behaviour therapy,
motivational interviewing and mindfulness-based stress reduction techniques
among these populations.
In 2015 Sally completed her PhD at
the University of Newcastle under
the supervision of Professor Amanda Baker and Emeritus Professor Pat Michie.
Sally’s PhD research examined the neuropsychological profiles of people
presenting with comorbid depression and alcohol use disorders. At the
University of New South Wales, her post-doctoral research focus has been the
development, evaluation and dissemination of computer- and internet-delivered
treatments for people with co-occurring mental health and alcohol/other drug
use problems. Current projects
include development of the eCliPSE online portal to facilitate wider access to
evidence-based interventions for comorbidly occurring mental health and
substance use problems in conjunction with the NSW Ministry of Health. Sally
also has research interests in the mental health and wellbeing of mothers and
is currently developing an e-Health intervention to address the closing gender
gap in hazardous alcohol use.
Sally has extensive experience in clinical supervision, as a
Board Approved Supervisor of Intern Psychologists, Registered Psychologists and
Clinical Psychology Registrars. In recent years Sally was a clinical supervisor
in the University of Newcastle Psychology Clinic, for Carers NSW, and in
private practice.
Sally will be starting on Monday
the 6th of August, and I am sure I speak for everyone when I say
that it is going to be a great pleasure working with her to set up our new
program.
Kindest regards
Kristen
