Committee Information
APS Interest Groups support members with special interests, assist communication between members interested in similar fields and advise the APS on issues related to their area of interest. Interest Group membership is open to all APS members and Interest group committee members are volunteer roles.
Below are details of the current committee and vacancies. The APS is always on the look out for members who are interested in joining a Member Group committee, to help support and promote members, the profession, and the APS. For more information about joining a Member Groups committee, click here.
Have questions? Please feel free to contact committee members via PsyCommunity direct message here or reach out to APS Member Groups via [email protected].
Convener
Ms Kylie O'Brien
Kylie is a clinical psychologist with over 20 years’ experience working with people in with a range of presentations including anxiety, trauma, depression and chronic pain in a private practise setting. She is the director and owner of the North Coast Centre for Clinical Psychology and CBT and the North Coast Health Collective. She has been actively involved with the APS for many years and was the chair of the APS North Coast Branch for 4 years. She is currently on the APS PAP interest group committee
Committee Member
Ms Susan Coonan
Sue is a Clinical Psychologist in private practice in Melbourne. She has worked for 15 years with the unique issues which bring people to psychotherapy. Her particular interest has been in working with couples toward improved connection. She primarily relies on Emotion Focused Therapy and is the President of the Melbourne Community for EFT, which offers PD and peer support to individual, couple and family therapists. Sue is a committed meditator and interested in the similarities of experience and spiritual experience offered by meditation and psychedelic practices.
Committee Member
Dr Mark Porter
I am a Clinical Psychologist based in Fremantle, Western Australia, primarily working in research and program implementation and management for the last 25 years. Long interest in the healing potential of altered states of consciousness, including variety of pathways practiced within different cultures for improving health, personal growth & self-realisation.
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