Speaker, Trainer & Mentor
Dr Johanna Lynch presents generalist whole person approaches to understanding distress. She integrates an understanding of the relational, cultural, environmental, physiological and meaningful aspects of being a person. Believing there is so much to learn from one another - she has integrated years of clinical experience, wisdom from her patients, and expert opinion from different disciplines to focus on healing and hope-filled approaches to suffering. She has carefully developed the Sense of Safety approach to distress (see www.senseofsafety.com) that offers a strength-based and trauma-informed approach that honours personal and communal strengths and does not dismiss or ignore pain.
She is available to teach in schools, workplaces, and community organisations, and offers online individual and group supervision and case consultation.
Upcoming Presentations
Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Specific Interest Group in Violence and Abuse - Online, Feb 10th 2025
Royal Australian College of General Practitioners 62nd Clinical Update weekend. Feb 22nd 2025
Australian Society for Psychological Medicine webinar March 25th 2025
General Practice Conference - Hamilton Island, May 2025
International Childhood Trauma Conference - Melbourne, August 2025
Pelvic Pain Foundation of Australia Conference - September 14th 2025
Other public presentations will be listed here as they draw near.
Professional Supervision and Mentoring
Johanna conducts online individual and small group professional case consultation and supervision for GPs and multidisciplinary clinicians and practitioners (teachers, mental health clinicians, and medical professionals).
She is a skilled facilitator of group case consultation and individual professional supervision and mentoring.
She is passionate about building the confidence and morale of practitioners who undertake frontline work in our community.
Under the auspices of the Mental Health Professionals Network, she has conducted the Integrate Place multidisciplinary case consultation group (including professionals from social work, nursing, physiotherapy, paediatrics, general practice and psychology backgrounds) in Brisbane since 2009. She has also run online case consultation groups for Outback Futures, and for the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and the Australian Society of Psychological Medicine since 2016.
For more information on Dr Lynch’s philosophy of supervision - click here.
For information on costs and appointment availability contact hello@drjohannalynch.com
“The problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but they are incomplete, they make one story become the only story”
Past Presentations: Trauma informed practice, Whole Person Care, and Sense of Safety
Dr Lynch is recognised as a leader in trauma informed practice in primary care, presenting on the topic internationally and nationally. She has presented on whole person care, sense of safety, generalism, grief and loss, complex trauma, spirituality in medical practice, dissociation, and clinician self-care.
Johanna is a trainer with the Australian Society of Psychological Medicine – training GPs in Focussed Psychological Skills since 2015 and convening conferences for ASPM since 2018 - including the recent conference Weaving together life, body, mind: the extraordinary practice of generalism. Contact the ASPM for further information on these courses (admin@aspm.org.au). She has presented at on Trauma informed care as a natural GP paradigm and on practical skills and attitudes at headspace national forum, and on on Sensing safety: a trauma-informed and strengths-based approach to holding the whole in mind and Holding the whole clinician in mind at the Queensland Early Intervention Statewide conference in May 2024 .
Other past resources include Johanna’s presentations as on The JustAGP podcast, the Mental Health Professionals Book Club podcast, the GP Show podcast, and taste of her contribution to the Australian Association of Academic Primary Care conference - Is multimorbidity iatrogenic?, the Mental Health Professionals Network webinars on Recognising and Colllaborative Care of Complex Trauma that were acclaimed internationally by the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (2014)
Watch and listen to more links in the articles section of the website.
Interested in Speaking, Training or Coaching?
If you would like to attend one of Dr Johanna Lynch’s trainings, invite her to speak with your organisation, participate in group or individual case consultations online please email hello@drjohannalynch.com