Services
Individual Counseling
Joe is a registered psychologist originally from Ireland but almost Australian now. He has experience from the Kimberley, Western Australia where he co-founded the award-winning Alive & Kicking Goals! Suicide prevention project in 2008. After moving to NSW Joe has worked on the Central Coast and Sydney in both the not-for-profit and private hospital settings in many areas including trauma, addiction, mood disorders and as a suicide prevention trainer (ASIST). He completed his PhD at UNSW/Black Dog Institute based on the trial of the world’s first app for suicide prevention (ibobbly) and is a member of the Reachout.com Clinical Advisory Group.
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He has a respectful and trauma-informed approach to working with client’s that is centred on their immediate needs and priorities. Joe views a lot of his work as simply education. He takes a practical, solution-focused approach to help people learn about what is most important to them (values) and how to deal with the challenges that life brings for us all. He utilises a range of therapeutic techniques depending on the client’s needs however does enjoy the value-based work and mindfulness teachings within Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
Crises Responses
Our team are available to respond to critical incidents within Australia by providing counselling to individuals, organisations and the wider community when sudden and unexpected incidents occur.
Supervision
Sand Bank provides individual and group external supervision to professionals working in the social services sector, including psychologists, social workers, youth workers, support coordinators.
Employee Assistant Programs (EAP)
We provide EAP services to small and medium sized organisations with psychologists offering telehealth or face to face counselling.
Mental health & Suicide Prevention Training
Sand Bank delivers Mental Health First Aid and bespoke training. We also provide the 2-day Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) and the 3 hour safeTALK suicide alertness workshop. Both evidence-based workshops are delivered in person by accredited Livingworks Master trainers.