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Joelle is a Clinical Psychologist and Senior Project Manager with the NSW Statewide Eating Disorders team at the InsideOut Institute. She holds a Master of Clinical Psychology from the University of Technology Sydney. Joelle has worked across a variety of inpatient, outpatient and day program settings in both the public and private sectors, including Westmead Hospital and Ramsay Clinic Northside. In these various roles, she has provided individual and group therapy, and has been involved in teaching and training other health professionals particularly in the assessment and treatment of eating disorders.
She also works in private practice, predominately with adolescents and adults who present with eating disorders. She is trained in a range of evidence-based therapies including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy-Enhanced, Maudsley Family Based Therapy and Schema Therapy for Eating Disorders. She believes in taking a person-centred and evidence-based approach and is passionate about empowering others to live meaningful lives.
Joelle is fully registered with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency with clinical endorsement. She is a board approved supervisor with the Psychology Board of Australia and a member of the Australian Clinical Psychology Association.
Across NSW, health services are increasingly involving people with a lived experience of an eating disorder and/or of caring for a loved one with an eating disorder in Service planning and improvement. This aims to ensure the skills, voices, experiences and contributions of those with a lived experience are effectively implemented, including Resources have been developed to support LHD Coordinators in meaningfully engaging these individuals.
In Progress
The NSW Service Plan emphasises having the Right People with the Right Skills in the Right Place. This highlights the need for a skilled, multidisciplinary workforce to support people with eating disorders across all levels of care. To achieve this, InsideOut efforts focus on building workforce Capacity and Capability across all NSW Health Services, providing NSW Health staff with training opportunities. This helps to ensure that individuals and their families receive high-quality, evidence-informed care close to home.
In Progress
The 2014 ‘Guidelines for the Inpatient Management of Adult Eating Disorders in General Medical and Psychiatric Settings in NSW’ provides valuable guidance for clinicians in services across the state in the care of a person with an eating disorder in a medical setting. InsideOut Institute in partnership with NSW Health and medical and psychiatric leads across the state have embarked on a full review and redesign of this guideline. The revised guidelines will reflect current evidence and best practice, provide consistent admission criteria, and ensure people with eating disorders can access the appropriate level of inpatient care across NSW.
In Progress
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