She has earned all her psychology degrees from Macquarie University in Sydney. In her undergraduate program, she majored in Psychology and Philosophy and later completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Psychology, and a Counselling Psychology Masters program. As part of her graduate studies she conducted research into the factors associated with violent behaviours in men, and further, investigated the aspects of entrainment and empathy and its association with peak experiences in music. A later strand of her psychology training centred on behavioural medicine and health behaviour change factors. She received her clinical training and experience through internships in public and private psychology and psychiatric settings across Sydney. 
Lucy is passionate about helping individuals, couple and families and never ceases to be impressed by the extraordinary resilience and resourcefulness that can be found in people who come to seek help from a psychologist.
Lucy has been in private psychology practice since 2007, and she works with children, teens, and adults. 
Apart from clinical work, between 2008 and 2017, she had a successful clinical academic teaching career. She was appointed Lecturer in Behavioural Sciences at The University of Sydney in 2009, and was later promoted to the Head of Discipline (Behavioural Sciences) at the University of Sydney. She developed an innovative teaching curriculum, and supervised and mentored tutors in delivering clinical workshops utilising SIM patients. Additionally, she served as a member of the Academic Board of The University of Sydney, and of the Selection Panel for interviews of candidates applying for postgraduate admission into the program of Medicine and Dentistry, over a period of 10 years.
Being a psychologist, Lucy is a behavioural expert, and unlike medical practitioners, she does not prescribe medication. Instead, the interventions and treatments offered are evidence-based psychologically-focused strategies, and the mode of delivery is predominantly “talk” therapy, that many patients (including some very young ones) find quite agreeable as a form of active treatment. Whenever research evidence is lacking, best practice based on available clinical literature and experience is offered. Lucy undertakes to bring a warm attitude and compassionate understanding to the sessions and aims to provide the highest level of care to her patients.
She enjoys collaborating with teams of medical practitioners to help deliver the best possible treatment outcomes to all patients. 
Lucy’s treatment approach is integrative and developmental - taking into account individual lifespan development, developmental psychopathology and family lifecycle. Psychological solutions may combine multiple perspectives and frameworks ranging from providing consultancy to manage challenging situations and behaviours, psycho-education on stress and coping, life skills training, emotional coaching, conscious relaxation techniques, mindfulness skills, counselling in lifecycle transitions that invoke grief responses, and trauma, cognitive restructuring, re-storying dominant narratives, to psychodynamic interventions, as appropriate.

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Professional Memberships: 
Psychologist registered with APHRA, Specialist Endorsement in Health Psychology
Full Member of the Australian Psychological Society
Fellow of the College of Health Psychologists
International Affiliate of American Psychological Association
Member of various interest groups over the years with the APS: Narrative; Organisational; Buddhism. 

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Past Memberships and Appointments: 
Academic Board Nominee (Selection Panel for Academic Appointments), the University of Sydney
Member of the Faculty Board
Member of the Dean’s Advisory Group
Member of the Learning and Teaching Committee
Expert Knowledge Consultant for Multi-mini-interview process and content
On occasions, providing expert commentary to newspaper and TV media
Inclusion on Register of Academic Supervisors
Presenter at conferences on topics of Health Psychology, Health Promotion, Emotional Intelligence, Behavioural Medicine (2011-2017)

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