James Douglas

Co-director and Psychologist
State Lead for ACT, VIC, TAS, NT, SA, WA

About James

With 20 years of experience in a variety of organisational and counselling psychology roles James has a wealth of knowledge and practical experience. In the last 15 years, James has been specifically working with police and emergency service workers and caring for individuals and groups with complex trauma histories, as well as grief and loss. Of course, trauma and stress has the potential to impact significantly on relationships both at home and in the work environment, and for this reason James also works with people in leadership roles, and supports individuals with workplace or relationship conflict issues.

Having spent several years working with police in training, James has also developed a keen interest in sports and performance psychology and has also worked with a number of athletes to achieve improved performance and to address a range of lifestyle challenges. Together with his use of strategies embedded in Acceptance & Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behaviour Therapies that are backed by science, James’ counselling success, is his deep respect for his clients and their ability to discover the strengths within that help them to achieve their goals.

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Leanne Hinsch

Co-director and Psychologist
State Lead for ACT, VIC, TAS, NT, SA, WA

About Leanne

For nearly three decades, Leanne has devoted herself to integrating neuroscientifically-supported elements such as compassion, kindness, resilience, and mindfulness into the cultural fabric of psychological recovery, wellbeing, and optimization. With a focus on high-performance safety-critical sectors like medical, aviation, military, child safety, humanitarian, disaster response, and emergency services, she has pioneered innovative approaches to enhance wellbeing, critical incident support, and peer assistance systems. Leanne's expertise spans the design, governance, management, research, safety, and sustainability of these systems, emphasizing their impact on individuals within organizations.

In addition to contributing to THRIVE's team of health professionals, Leanne offers therapeutic sessions and coaching, specializing in post-traumatic growth, complex trauma, anxiety, and peak performance. Proficient in various therapeutic modalities, including EMDR, trauma-informed CBT, clinical hypnosis, and mindfulness, she underscores the importance of building culture-focused systems for collective prosperity. Leanne's commitment extends to fostering compassionate connections and healing within both professional and conscious communities, recognizing the potential for genuine transformation in individuals, organizations, and communities alike.

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Phillip Garlick

Psychologist
State Lead for QLD

About Phillip

After growing up in country NSW, Phil served in the military as a soldier, worked in an adult male prison, and for the last 5 years in a Moggill private psychology practice. Phil has deep appreciation for the impact of stressful environments on people and their families, and the preciousness of life right here and now. Seeing and experiencing the capacity that people have to both flourish in these environments and to have great struggle has given Phil a curiosity about factors that influence psychological processes. He is interested in tweaking these processes to optimise our ability to take effective responsibility, and to improve our experience of life and the relationships that are central to our performance and wellbeing.

Phil seeks to engage clients in a process of personal discovery that is tailored to each individual. Using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Compassion Focused Therapy he strives to strike a balance between the all important meaning making with the identification of practical solutions. Whether his client’s are being adversely affected by long periods of low mood, are experiencing anger or anxiety related to their past experiences or they are working on performance enhancement, Phil takes a strength based approach that values the client’s experience. While he enjoys the calm and quiet of the consulting room he also knows that the best work can be done in the outdoors or on foot, so don’t hesitate to ask if you would like a session outdoors.

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Jessica Kemp

Psychologist
State Lead for NSW

About Jessica

Jessica is registered psychologist and has been practicing for over a decade. Jessica has a passion for working with high performing individuals working in high pressure environments. She has a passion for assisting individuals to tap into and unlock their potential and to help high performance individuals work optimally in the relationship between their minds and their human performance. 

Jessica has over a decade of experience in mental health care. Alongside private practice, this has included both hospital inpatient and outpatient group based and individual therapy, a consulting psychologist in trauma response and intervention across various organisations & companies in Australia, Jessica has experience working across all age demographics and backgrounds and has also worked within private, public and community based treatment facilities.

Jessica adopts an eclectic and person-centred treatment approach and orientation and is trained in and utilises a range of therapeutic approaches including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Schema Therapy, Mindful-Self Compassion, Compassion Focused Therapy, Mindfulness Based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Prolonged Exposure Therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy, Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, Narrative Therapy & Gottman Couples Therapy.

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