Emma-Leigh has been practising as a psychologist since 2015, where she first began her career in Occupational Rehabilitation. Here, she was responsible for assisting those injured in the workplace, return to work, as well as the prevention of mental health and psychosocial hazards in the workplace. Emma-Leigh led and run stress management workshops for the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) during this time at IPAR Rehabilitation. From here, Emma-Leigh moved into private practice, GP and multi-disciplinary clinics (working alongside speech pathologists and occupational therapists) where she worked with clients across the lifespan treating a range of concerns including general psychological wellbeing and prevention, ASD, ADHD, anxiety, depression, trauma and behaviour management (parenting and stakeholder involvement often). Emma-Leigh has also been a private PsyBa Supervisor since 2020 and thoroughly enjoys fostering and developing the skills of developing psychologists. 

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Emma-Leigh has also worked in academic settings alongside private practice since 2018, in both casual and permanent positions providing teaching, supervision, research, course coordination and marking across Master of Clinical Psychology, Master of Professional Psychology and Psychology Honours programs. In her role as a Lecturer at the University of Southern Queensland, Emma-Leigh course coordinated and taught a number of Masters programs including Comprehensive Psychological Assessment, Advanced Clinical Interventions and Advanced Psychopathology. Emma-Leigh thoroughly enjoys teaching and supervision.

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Memberships​

• Registration with Psychology Board of Australia/Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency 

• Endorsement as a Clinical Psychologist with Psychology Board of Australia

• Full Membership with Australian Psychological Society and Australian College of Clinical Psychologists

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Awards

• Member of the Golden Key Society for Outstanding Academic Achievement - 2014 (Honours in Psychology)

• Customer Service Award - IPAR Rehabilitation - 2016

• Dean's Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement - 2018 - Charles Sturt University (Clinical Masters)

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Emma-Leigh's Degrees

• Bachelor of Behavioural Science (Psychology) - QUT (2013)

• Bachelor of Psychological Science (Honours) - ACU (2014) - Attained membership to the Golden Key Society for outstanding academic achievement. 

• Master of Professional Psychology - UniSQ (2015)

• Master of Clinical Psychology - CSU (2018) - Awarded a Dean's Award for outstanding academic achievement. 

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) - UniSQ (2025) 

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Other qualifications and completed training (not exhaustive)

• PsyBA Board-Approved Supervision Training and Masterclasses.

• Nervous System Training Programs - Primal Trust, Irene Lyon & HEAL

• Accredited Triple P provider (behaviour management program).

• ADOS-2 and ADI-R (Assessment of Autism Spectrum Disorder). 

• PDA Training with Tony Attwood.

• Managing addiction in ASD with Tony Attwood.

• Qualitative analysis training with Clare Moran.

• Energy psychology - EFT (Tapping) with Peta Stapleton. 

• Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT).

• Trauma and the child.

• IFS Introduction Training.

• Neurofeedback Introduction.