New South Wales (NSW)

Adam Martin

Psychiatrist

Dr Adam Martin has worked as a consultant psychiatrist in Sydney since 2006.

He graduated as a doctor in London in 1994 and moved to Sydney in 1999, where he trained in psychiatry at Prince of Wales Hospital Randwick, and at Long Bay Hospital, Malabar.

He has a particular interest in sports psychiatry, and consults to professional sports teams and athletes at The Stadium Clinic, Moore park (next to SCG).

Through the Australian Institute of Sport, he is providing an on-call service for the Australian Olympic and Paralympic teams. He works closely with sports physicians and psychologists, seeing athletes for management of mental health disorders including anxiety, depression, substance use disorders, problem behaviours and relationship issues.

Amy Joscelyne

Psychologist

Dr Amy Joscelyne is a clinical psychologist who believes that warmth and empathy are essential to developing a good therapeutic relationship. She works with a wide range of issues including anxiety, low mood, trauma, grief, drug and alcohol and relationship issues. She uses several therapeutic approaches including schema therapy, CBT, acceptance and commitment therapy and attachment informed approaches. Amy discovered a passion for working with athletes through working with the NRL and understands the unique pressures of high-performance environments, and challenges related to injuries and career transitions. When she’s not working, Amy loves reading thrillers and walking her dog, Hudson, who frequently makes an appearance at her office, too.

Amy Talbot

Psychologist

Director of The Talbot Centre, a large multidisciplinary service in Northwest Sydney, and in 2018, she was awarded Australian Psychologist of the Year.

Dr Amy Talbot has worked across a wide range of settings including inpatient and day patient hospital programs; and specialist outpatient services.

She has also held multiple research, teaching and supervisory positions in the area of clinical psychology. She has a particular interest in working with eating, feeding and body image concerns; anxiety disorders; obsessive compulsive and related disorders; academic, mindset and performance issues; and child and family concerns.

Andrew Gardner

Neuropsychologist

A world-leading neuropsychologist with over a decade’s worth of experience working with elite athletes in both a clinical and research setting

Andrew is a clinical neuropsychologist, and an Associate Professor with the School of Medicine & Public Health at The University of Newcastle. He is also a Co-Director of the Hunter New England Local Health District (HNE LHD)'s Sport Concussion Clinic, an Executive Committee Member of the Priority Research Centre for Stroke and Brain Injury and has served as the concussion consultant to Rugby Australia.

He is a member World Rugby's concussion working. Andrew received first class honours in Psychology (University of New England) in 2005 and subsequently completed a Doctor of Psychology (Clinical Neuropsychology) degree at Macquarie University, Sydney, where he conducted research examining the acute and cumulative neuropsychological consequences of sports concussion in semi-professional rugby union players.

His thesis received the prestigious award for the Most Outstanding Dissertation for 2011 from the National Academy of Neuropsychology (USA); the first, and still the only, time this award has been bestowed upon a student who studied outside of North America. Following this, Andrew completed his PhD in the School of Medicine and Public Health, at the University of Newcastle, studying the potential long-term consequences of participation in collision sports.

In 2015 Andrew was awarded the Discovery Award from Research Australia as the national early career researcher of the year for 2015. He was made a 2017 AMP Tomorrow Maker to support the clinical and research work within the HNE LHD Sports Concussion Clinic. In 2018 Andrew received a Fulbright Postdoctoral Award and travelled to Harvard Medical School.

Edel Langan

Psychologist

Performance and General Psychologist supporting individuals to live a rich, full and meaningful life

Dr Edel Langan is a psychologist with experience across both Olympic and professional sport settings.

Edel currently works as a psychologist with the Australian Sailing Team, Cricket NSW and Table Tennis. In private practice, Edel supports individuals from the general public, sport and performance arts industry, with a range of life matters.

Edel previously worked at the New South Wales Institute of Sport, providing psychological support to scholarship athletes across a variety of sports.

Edel has also worked in community mental health. Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom – Victor Frankl The MHRN is a fantastic initiative to support athletes in their choice making of how to navigate the highs and lows of high-performance sport.

Harris Anasson

Psychologist

Harris Anasson is a registered psychologist with AHPRA and a full member of the Australian Association of Psychologists. She has a breadth and depth of experience spanning 20 years, assisting individuals and groups in clinical, forensic and private practice settings.

Harris currently operates her own private practice in Sydney’s Northern Beaches, treating individuals with a variety of presentations including adjustment, anxiety, depression, substance misuse disorders and post-traumatic stress.  She has a special interest in emotional dysregulation, deliberate self-injury and suicidal risk. Harris can also assist in the management of stress, grief/loss, interpersonal difficulties and can provide specific skills training in areas such as healthy communication, assertiveness and effective problem solving.

Harris is educated and trained in a number of evidence based therapeutic modalities, however, considers herself eclectic in her approach, applying the modalities that are best suited to an individual’s unique needs and preferences. Her practise philosophy is focused on the importance of an authentic therapeutic relationship and genuine compassion for individuals.

With her own background in sport and experience working with representative athletes in private practice, Harris has an awareness of the multifaceted challenges that can impact both health and performance. Harris is passionate about working collaboratively with athletes, assisting them to optimise their wellbeing and achieve their personal goals.

Jessica Cunningham

Dietitian

Jessica is an Accredited Practising Dietitian currently working in private practice at The Talbot Centre. Jessica is committed to helping her clients in an empathetic manner and provides individualised support through a Non-Diet/Health at Every Size (HAES) approach. With kindness and compassion always front of mind, guiding individuals to feel as comfortable as they can is at the forefront of Jessica’s practice.

Jessica has a special interest in eating disorders, disordered eating (emotional and compulsive eating), and body image concerns. She has experience working with people in private outpatient care, medical centre settings and has also been involved in NDIS related dietetics work. Jessica is a member of Dietitians Australia and enjoys keeping up to date with the latest nutrition research.

Kristy Atwool

Psychologist

Kristy is a warm, intuitive, and empathic Clinical Psychologist. She is dedicated to supporting her clients as they better their mental health, pursue their full potential, and live more satisfying lives.  She has over 20 years of experience working as a psychologist and her clients tend to find her gentle, sensitive demeanour both reassuring and encouraging.

​Kristy's qualifications are a Masters Degree in Clinical Psychology and a Bachelor of Psychology with Honours both from the University of New South Wales.​

Kristy has experience working with a range of individuals with diverse psychological difficulties such as, anxiety disorders, mood disorders, personality difficulties, poor self-esteem, post-traumatic stress, depersonalisation and derealisation symptoms, eating disorders, relationship issues, grief and loss, psychosis, self-harm and difficulties coping with emotions. She enjoys working both with individuals and couples and has a special interest in helping clients with challenging childhoods develop their self-worth and establish more healthy relationships with others.

She has extensive training in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Schema Informed therapy approaches and Mindfulness-based therapies. She also has an appreciation and fondness for Psychodynamic treatment models.

Kristy has consulted in community health settings and both public and private hospitals. For the last 17 years has been the Director and Principal Psychologist of her psychology private practice based in St Leonards on Sydney’s North Shore.

Kristy is registered with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (APHRA) and a SIRA WorkCover provider. She is a member of the Australian Psychological Society (APS), the APS College of Clinical Psychologists, and an ANZAED Accredited Eating Disorder Clinician. Kristy is a Board Approved Supervisor and enjoys supervising psychologists completing the Clinical Psychology Registrar Program.

She offers in person and telehealth appointments Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Kim Cardile

Psychologist

Kim has extensive business management and sport experiences with high performance teams at the state and national level.

She has been instrumental in driving national change in learning and development frameworks and career management programs. Kim has a diverse background; inclusive of sport, coaching and clinical psychology, tertiary and secondary education, career counselling and in business and services management.

Kim has experience working in the Australian Institute and Academies of Sport, in University Sport and Education, in government and private enterprise and at the Australian Sports Commission

Dr Lyndel Abbott

Psychologist

Lead psychologist with the Australian Olympic Team at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games and the Australian Paralympic Team for Tokyo 2020

Lyndel completed her Doctorate of Clinical Psychology at the University of Sydney in 2005. Since then she has had extensive experience in both the sporting and clinical domains.

Clinically Lyndel has worked in university settings as well as community mental health, inpatient units, drug and alcohol facilities, and is now in her own private practice in St Leonards, Sydney.

Lyndel has been able to apply her clinical training and experience to the world of sports first through her role as Residential Athlete Counsellor at the AIS, and as a Psychologist with the Australian Olympic Team at the London 2012 Games, and as the Lead Psychologist at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games and the 2020/1 Tokyo Paralympics. Lyndel also consults to a range of sporting organisations.

Michael Magee

Psychologist

Michael is an experienced clinical psychologist with over a decade of counselling and psychology experience in various settings, including public hospitals, universities, and private practices. Currently most of his work involves providing clinical and performance psychology support to high-performance athletes, coaches, and support staff in professional and Olympic/Paralympic sports. Michael holds a Master of Clinical Psychology and several postgraduate qualifications in counselling and psychology. He is also currently pursuing a PhD in chronic pain and digital health at the University of Sydney's Pain Management and Research Institute.

Michael has extensive experience in supporting clients with mental health issues such as depression, anxiety (including performance anxiety), stress, OCD, and bipolar disorder. He also helps clients with problematic substance use and other addictive behaviours, such as issues with alcohol, illicit drugs, gambling, sex, and pornography. Additionally, he enjoys working with clients to improve the areas where physical health overlaps with psychology, such as sleep issues, diet, pain management, and chronic illness.

Michael is passionate about providing psychology support to improve mental health, performance, relationships, and quality of life. He uses evidence-based psychological strategies such as CBT, ACT, Schema and Narrative Therapies to collaboratively explore the issues clients bring to sessions. He works with clients from diverse backgrounds and communities, valuing their unique histories and identities, and believes that everyone deserves access to high-quality psychological support. Michael strives to understand each individual's unique background and how it may influence their current situation, making sure to provide a supportive and non-judgmental environment.

Monica Sekowski

Psychologist

Monica is a psychologist holding both a Master of Educational and Developmental Psychology and a Master of Clinical Psychology. She has over 12 years experience in private practice and inpatient and outpatient mental health services across Sydney. Monica is the founder of Eastern Suburbs Psychology and the Senior Psychologist at the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service Campbelltown Hospital. Monica also has rooms at Developmental Paediatrics, where she consults as part of a multidisciplinary team treating complex mental health presentations.

Monica holds an area of specialty in eating and body image disorders. She has a passion for working with sports professionals across the lifespan who, as a population, are uniquely vulnerable to disordered eating and exercise behaviours due to the relationship athletic performance has with nutritional intake and training schedule. She also has an interest in anxiety disorders and their impact on performance.

Monica is primarily a cognitive behavioural therapist. However, she also uses modalities such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and schema work.

Monica is a proud member of the eating disorders and Body Image research network at WSU and was awarded the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research, Enterprise International Award for excellence in research in 2020. Monica is a board-approved supervisor and provides clinical supervision as a credentialed eating disorder clinician and member of the Australian and New Zealand Academy for Eating Disorders to those undertaking the credentialing program in NSW. She currently holds the position of Adjunct Fellow in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology at Western Sydney University and is a member of the Australian Psychological Society and College of Clinical Psychologists.

Rene Poulos

Psychologist

Experienced psychologist in a range of sports and performance domains.

Provider of Psychology and Career Development Services to higher education and high-performance sports sectors for over 20 years.

Rene is a Registered Psychologist and Senior TAFE Counsellor at TAFENSW where she currently works at Randwick College and EORA College, Redfern. With a career spanning more than twenty years in higher education, Rene is a skilled provider of personal, educational and vocational/career counselling. Rene also has specialist expertise in working with clients from Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Island backgrounds, clients with disability and clients from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

As well as working in the higher education sector, Rene also works in private practice as a Psychologist assisting clients to identify and draw on their strengths, overcome barriers, and realise their potential so they can meet their personal goals.

In the high-performance sports sector Rene works with athletes, assisting their holistic development in life/sport balance, wellbeing and career longevity. Rene is also an Accredited Mental Health First Aid Instructor. In all her work as a Psychologist, Rene empathically connects individuals with the difficult and challenging issues that lead to personal insight, behavioural change and the achievement of significant sporting and life outcomes.

"The Mental Health Referral Network is a wonderful addition to the support services available to athletes. Above all, the Network provides the right support at the right time, ensuring that athletes are able to be supported at any point throughout their sporting and life journeys. Within the athlete’s world there is still a lot of stigma around mental health. However, the referral pathways to the Mental Health Referral Network are seamless and athletes are also able to self-refer, enabling the Network to effectively facilitate help-seeking behaviours in athletes who are experiencing mental health or wellbeing challenges."

Tracey Frazer

Psychologist

Experienced Clinical Psychologist with experience in both clinical and sporting domains

Tracey works in a collaborative and down to earth way and she has a passion for empowering clients to develop insight and understanding about their issues, helping motivate them to apply strategies to their daily lives.

Tracey is a Clinical Psychologist with 25 years of experience. She has over 10 years experience in a Community Mental Health Mood and Anxiety Team and has had her own Private Practice for almost 20 years. Tracey works from a range of evidence - based treatment modalities allowing treatment plans to be individualised, targeted and goal focussed.

Tracey has been providing clinical services to a range of athletes from a range of sports through the AIS Mental Health Referral Network since it began. She is located in Southern Sydney and her clinic can accomodate wheelchair access where needed.

“The Mental Health Referral Network is an excellent initiative for elite athletes past and present, allowing them to access mental health services in a safe, confidential and supportive environment. Athletes can access services as needed to support their psychological health and performance needs.”