Supervision with
Dr Johanna Lynch
PhD | MBBS | FRACGP | Grad Cert (Grief & Loss) | FASPM
Valuing the art and science of caring for the whole person
Dr Johanna Lynch
Dr Johanna Lynch is a highly experienced GP psychotherapist with over 15 years of dedicated work supporting adult survivors of childhood trauma and neglect. She specialises in addressing dissociative processes that disconnect individuals from themselves, their values, relationships, and context. Through her clinical work, Dr Lynch focuses on rebuilding connection and fostering unity in each of these areas.
Her PhD, titled Sense of Safety: A Whole Person Approach to Distress in Primary Care, translates trauma-informed care into a practical framework usable across disciplines. In 2025, her work has grown to be considered a theoretical framework with a paper being published online this month - you can read more here. This evolution uniquely positions her for transdisciplinary consultation on wellbeing and distress in our communities. She further expanded on her research by translating her PhD into an academic book, titled A Whole Person Approach to Wellbeing: Building Sense of Safety.
Dr Lynch’s clinical focus lies in sensing and attending to the whole person, which includes their relationships, values, and meaning-making processes. She emphasises the development of autobiographical coherence - integrating all aspects of a person’s story, including the unpresentable parts. As a generalist, she incorporates her training in trauma-specific therapy, internal family systems, hypnosis, and grief into her work with adults and adolescents in the community.
Passionate about supporting frontline workers who encounter the impact of social and relational experiences on the distress of our community, her supervision philosophy is to offer a safe place for the practitioner to be themselves and reflect on the impact of their encounters on their own experiences. Dr Lynch prioritises awareness of emotional and bodily intuition, evidence-based approaches, and the holistic perspective of seeing the whole person in both patients and practitioners.
Dr Lynch has offered individual supervision and group case consultations for over a decade. Additionally, she has co-facilitated a multidisciplinary case consultation group for more than 12 years and serves as a long-standing coordinator for the Mental Health Professionals’ Network. Her teaching contributions extend nationally through online case consultations for the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Rural and the Australian Society for Psychological Medicine. She also holds a Senior Lecturer position at The University of Queensland.
Dr Lynch completed a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS UQ 1992), Fellowship of General Practice (RACGP 2003), Grad Cert Grief and Loss (Health Sciences UQ 2007), Fellowship of the Australian Society for Psychological Medicine (FASPM- 2016) and Dissociative Disorders Psychotherapy (International Society for the Study Trauma and Dissociation 2011).
She is committed to personal and professional growth and has had extensive training on attachment and trauma, dissociation, and hypnosis. She has attended workshops and training sessions with esteemed leaders in the field, including Daniel Siegel, Lou Cozolino, Allan Schore, Ed Tronick, Colin Ross, Stephen Porges, Peter Fonagy, Anthony Bateman, Ruth Lanius, Pat Ogden, Christine Courtois, Julian Ford, Dan Hughes, and John Briere.
Dr Lynch is the Immediate Past and Advisor to the Australian Society of Psychological Medicine, Clinical Advisor to the Brisbane South PHN Domestic and Family Violence Team. She is also an Advisor to the Blue Knot Foundation, and Past Consortia Chair for Headspace Capalaba (Brisbane). She consults to the Safer Families Centre for Research Excellence, RACGP, the ALIVE National Centre for Mental Health Research, and Outback Futures.
If you are interested in pursuing clinical supervision with Dr Johanna Lynch or would like to know more, please email hello@drjohannalynch.com.
