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Psychology Clinic Executive and Supervisors

Help is on the way: Support for individuals, couples and families in the community


Clinic Director

Associate Professor Roger Cook
TPTC, BSc(Hons), MEd, PhD, FAPS
Roger is an Associate Professor in Psychology within the Faculty of Life and Social Sciences at Swinburne University of Technology and Director of the Psychology Clinic. He is also a registered psychologist, family therapist and a State Approved Infertility Counsellor for the Melbourne Assisted Conception Centre at the Mercy Hospital for Women. Roger’s recent research has been about the psychological effects on men of their infertility. He has other research interests in family formation and functioning including the use of surrogacy; men and masculinities; systemic counselling processes and the dimensions of in-law relationships. He is a past President of the Fertility Society of Australia and of the Australian and New Zealand Infertility Counsellors’ Association and has had a long association with the administration of the APS College of Counselling Psychologists.

Clinic Executive

Associate Professor Glen Bates
BA, BComm, MA, PhD, MAPS
Glen completed a Masters degree in Clinical psychology and a Ph.D investigating the nature of social anxiety disorder. Glen is a member of both the College of Clinical Psychologists and the College of Counselling psychologists within the Australian Psychological Society. Glen has been involved in the professional training of psychologists at Swinburne University since 1989 and has been affiliated with clinical psychology training programs at the University of Melbourne. Glen has also been in private practice since 1985 and sees adult clients for individual psychotherapy and has worked as a clinical psychologist in hospitals in Melbourne and Darwin. His particular areas of interest are anxiety disorders and anger problems. Glen is also a professional supervisor of
provisional psychologists and provides supervision for the Psychology Clinic's Social Anxiety Group therapy program.

Professor Mike Kyrios
BA, DipEdPsych, MPsych, PhD, MAPS
Mike is a clinical psychologist who has practiced professionally since the mid-1980s in a range of areas including general hospital, public psychiatric, inpatient and outpatient, rehabilitation, primary care, rural and metropolitan, and private practice settings. He has an expertise in the use of evidence-based psychological treatments, particularly with anxiety and mood disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and related disorders (compulsive buying and hoarding), and chronic medical conditions. Mike has been involved in the training and supervision of clinical psychologists since 1994, and has been instrumental in developing postgraduate psychology training programs and training programs for general practitioners and mental health workers. Mike has also established strong links with community support organisations for individuals with anxiety disorders and their carers, as well as with professional groups. In addition to being National Chair of the Australian Psychological Society’s College of Clinical Psychologists , he ensures that clinical training programs across Australia meet the College’s training guidelines. Mike has been involved as a chief investigator or collaborator on numerous grants and research consortia both nationally and internationally.

Associate Professor Greg Murray
MClin Psych, PhD, MAPS
Greg is a registered psychologist and a member of the College of Clinical Psychologists. He received a Masters in Clinical Psychology from La Trobe University in 1991, completed the Gestalt Therapy Training Program at Gestalt Institute of Melbourne in 1994, and took out a PhD from the University of Melbourne in 2001. He has conducted a small private practice alongside his academic clinical work since 1991. His clients have covered a wide range of diagnostic groups with a predominance of the less severe, neurotic spectrum conditions. His therapeutic approach blends the short-term structured and goal-oriented features of CBT with an emphasis on client strengths, phenomenological process and action methods that comes from Gestalt Therapy. His clinical research interest is the chronobiology of mood.

Dr Britt Klein
DClin Psych, MAPS
Britt is a clinical psychologist and the Co-Director of Swinburne University's eTherapy Unit, the National eTherapy Centre for Anxiety Disorders (NeTCAD) and Swinburne's electronic Journal of Applied Psychology (eJAP).  Britt's research involves developing and evaluating internet-based treatments for anxiety, mood, and alcohol and substance abuse disorders; including other addictive disorders and chronic physical health conditions.   Outside of Swinburne Britt holds the position of Deputy Chair on the Reconnexion Board of Management.

 

 

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Email: psychclinic@swin.edu.au      Call: (03) 9214 8653     Visit: Level 3, TD Building, Hawthorn Campus