Dr Susan O'Loughlin

Biography

Dr Susan O'Loughlin is a part-time lecturer and clinical skills tutor with the School of Rural Medicine. Her teaching areas include Signs and Symptoms of Psychological Disorder; Diagnosis and Classification of Mental Illness; Loss and Grief; Principles of Palliative Care; Parenting a child with disabilities. Susan's tutoring areas include Core Communication Skills, Sexuality Counselling Skills and Psychiatry Clinical Skills.

Susan is also an Adjunct in the School of Health UNE where she supervises PhD and Masters students. She also practises as a Registered Psychologist, and has been in private practice for the past 25 years.Susan has five adult children and two grandchildren. She is also a carer for her husband, following his stroke in 2011.

Qualifications

PhD (University of New England NSW Australia)

M Psych (Ed), BA (Psych), Dip Ed (University of Newcastle NSW Australia)

Teaching Areas

Counselling and Consultation/Communication Skills

Diagnosis and Classification of Mental Illness and Psychological Disorder

Loss and Grief; Palliative CareParenting a child with disabilities

Research Interests

Therapeutic Relationship

Clinical Supervision

Counsellor and Client stories of therapy

Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

Publications

O'Loughlin, S M (2008), Forward, in Gardiner, E A, Jelly Babies and Bricks – my client's journey through therapy. Zeus Publications, Burleigh Qld, ISBN: 978-1-921406-05-8

O'Loughlin, S M (2007). Transformative journeys: psychotherapists' reflections on being changed by their clients' stories.  PhD thesis. University of New England, Armidale, NSW

O'Loughlin, S M (2006). Therapists' 'felt sense' in therapy and supervision: reflexivity in the teaching of psychotherapy, in Lewis, I. & Alexander, I. (Eds) Proceedings of the 6th National Society for Counselling and Psychotherapy Educators Conference 2005 (Refereed Section), SCAPE, Canberra, ISBN: 1740882466.

Richards-O'Loughlin, S M (1995). Counselling Service Provision to Tertiary Students with Psychiatric, Acquired Brain Injury, and Learning Disabilities, Draft Report for TAFE NSW Counselling Services, Sydney NSW.

O'Loughlin, S M (1993). Professional Burnout, Job Stress and Personality: An inquiry into TAFE teachers. M Psych (Ed) thesis (catalogued under Richards-McClung, S M). University of Newcastle, NSW

Articles/chapters drafted for review by

Australian Psychologist, published by APS: Transforming research experience into psychotherapy practice and supervision

Narrative Network News, an Australian and New Zealand journal magazine that supports and reports on narrative approaches to therapy: Parallel journeys of transformation: the reshaping of client and therapist stories

Hermeneutic reflections: foregrounding the researcher in the qualitative research processPreparing contribution for Handbook on Health and Wellbeing (Wiley) and Health Psychology book (IP Comm), in conjunction with APS College of Health Psychologists.

Memberships

AHPRA – Registered Psychologist

Australian Psychological Society (MAPS)

College of Health Psychologists (MCHP)

Division of Independently Practicing Psychologists (DIPP)

Consultancy Interests

In private practice as Psychologist since 1990

AHPRA-approved Clinical Supervisor of psych interns

Psychotherapy Educator

Involved in Critical Incident ResponseWorkcover-approved Psychologist