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Teaching commitmentBiographyJanette has specialist qualifications and extensive experience in counselling psychology, individual, relationship and group psychotherapy, and psychoanalytic psychotherapy and group analysis. She is enthusiastic about helping psychologists develop into excellent clinicians and researchers, with the ability to develop sensitivity, depth, and strength in their work.
Research InterestsPSYCHOTHERAPY PRACTICE ISSUES including:
Spirituality and psychotherapy interface; spirituality, meaning and wellbeing; individual meanings of religion
Environment, wellbeing and spirituality issues
Culture and diversity sensitive psychotherapy
Clinical pedagogy and professional learning in training psychotherapists
Psychotherapy research evidence issues
Clinician development and self care
Creative and performing arts and wellbeing
Depth psychotherapy: Psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy issues (individual, relationship and group)
RESEARCH METHODS
Qualitative (including thematic analysis and narrative approaches), mixed methods and quantitative
Professional Associations
- Registered Psychologist (and registered Supervisor) with the Victorian Psychologists Registration Board
- Clinical Member of the Group Analytic Society of London
- Clinical Member of the Australian Association of Group Psychotherapists
- Member of:
- Australian Psychological Society
- APS College of Counselling Psychologists
- Society for Psychotherapy Research
- Psychoanalytic Studies Association of Australasia
- Australian Society for Performing Arts Healthcare
Community Service
- National Executive of Australian Psychological Society Counselling Psychology College, Co-opted Member
- Presenter, Australian Psychological Society Professional Development Workshops (Group Psychotherapy)
- Monash University Ethics Framework Expert Advisory Group
SupervisionCLINICAL PRACTICE ISSUES, INCLUDING:
Culture and diversity sensitive psychotherapy
Spirituality, meaning and wellbeing; Spirituality and psychotherapy
Environment, wellbeing and spirituality issues
Creative and performing arts and wellbeing
Therapeutic relationship issues
Public perceptions of psychotherapy, counselling and practitioners and effects on uptake of services
Relationship and group psychotherapy
Clinician self-care and development
RESEARCH METHODS
Qualitative (including thematic analysis, narrative approaches, & IPA), mixed methods and quantitative
EXAMPLES OF RESEARCH TOPICS SUPERVISED (COMPLETED)
The cross cultural counselling experience: An investigation of perspectives of international students and counsellors
Filipino conceptions of depression and anxiety
Relationships between Chinese cultural values, personality and the counselling process in a Chinese Catholic sample
Attachment, commitment and marital satisfaction in Maltese couples in Malta and in Melbourne
Spiritual well-being, burnout and trauma in psychologists working as counsellors and psychotherapists
Perceptions of life, death and dying from a Spiritualist perspective
The influences of varying beliefs in an afterlife
Altered states of consciousness and spiritual development
Spirituality, locus of control and well-being
Psychologists' experience of the wounded healer paradigm and its influence on counselling practice
The identification of spiritual emergencies in the practice of psychology in Australia
Police/gender response to colleague assault
Public attitudes to psychologists and expectations of counselling
An investigation of treatment outcome and client experiences of a pre-marriage education program
Therapists perspectives of factors which influence the therapeutic alliance with children and adolescents
Supervisor stress, workload and the working alliance
Performance tension experienced by university students and the influence of family communication: A mixed methods study
Stress in fly in/fly out marriages
A retrospective look at the reasons people said no to drugs as adolescents
PublicationsREFEREED PUBLICATIONS/PAPERS
Hamid, P., Simmonds, J. G., & Bowles, T. (2009). Asian-Australian acculturation and attitudes towards seeking professional psychological help. Australian Journal of Psychology, 61(2), 69-76.
Zammit, C. R., & Simmonds, J. G. (2009 in press). Maltese married couples in two disparate cultural locations - Malta and Melbourne, Australia. Australian Journal of Counselling Psychology.
Simmonds, J. G. (2008). The research evidence base of counselling psychology. Paper presented at the 43rd Annual Australian Psychological Society Conference, Hobart.
Melder, N., & Simmonds, J. G. (2008). 'Someone who can understand us': Identifying and addressing barriers to counselling for Indigenous students. Australian Journal of Counselling Psychology, 9(1), 4-11.
Southcott, J. E., & Simmonds, J. G. (2008). Performance anxiety and the inner critic: A case study. Australian Journal of Music Education(1), 32-37.
Simmonds, J. G. (2008, August). Spirituality and psychotherapy in the current climate. Paper presented at the 14th European Symposium in Group Analysis, Dublin.
Simmonds, J., & Southcott, J. (2008, August). Relating to the audience and the group/troupe: Performance tension perceived in relationship. Paper presented at the 14th European Symposium in Group Analysis, Dublin.
Simmonds, J. G. (2008). In the then and now of spirituality and psychotherapy: Researching, practicing, writing. Invited Keynote Address presented at the Australian Psychological Society Transpersonal Psychology Symposium, Melbourne, September 13.
Zammit, C., & Simmonds, J. (2008). Valuing diversity and culture: The impact of Australian culture on Maltese marriages. Paper presented at the Fifth Australian Family & Community Strengths Conference, University of Newcastle.
Southcott, J., & Simmonds, J. (2007). Someone is always listening: Performance anxiety and the perception of audience. In A. Stanberg, J. Mcintosh & R. Faulkner (Eds.), Australian Society for Music Education 40th National Conference Proceedings, Perth (pp. 203-206).
Southcott, J. E., & Simmonds, J. G. (2007). "It goes to where you live": physiological and psychological manifestations of performance anxiety. Paper presented at the 29th Australian Association for Research in Music Education Conference, Perth, Australia (in press).
Simmonds, J. G. (2006). The oceanic feeling and a seachange: Historical challenges to reductionist attitudes to religion and spirit from within psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 23, 128-142.
Simmonds, J. G. (2006). Freud and the American physician's religious experience. Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 9, 401-405.
Simmonds, J. G. (2006). Being and potential: Psychoanalytic clinicians' concepts of God. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 3, 221-241.
Smith, A. F., & Simmonds, J. G. (2006). Help-seeking and paranormal beliefs in adherents of mainstream religion, alternative religion, and no religion. Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 19(4), 331-341.
Southcott, J. E., & Simmonds, J. G. (2006). A case study in performance tension: Responding to the vulnerable child. The Australian Association for Research in Music Education Annual Conference Proceedings, 111-115, Melbourne, Australia.
Simmonds, J. G. (2005). Other than 'the set pattern': Developing one's own thoughts about spirituality and religion. Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 8, 239-251.
Simmonds, J. G. (2005). Myths, models, and misconceptions regarding evidence in psychotherapy: Implications for conducting psychoanalytic research. Paper presented at the 13th European Symposium in Group Analysis, Molde, Norway.
Simmonds, J. G. (2004). Heart and Spirit: Research with psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists about spirituality. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 85, 951-971.
Simmonds, J. G. (2001). A space for Spirit in therapist, patient and the psychoanalytic group? International Association of Group Psychotherapy 5th Pacific Rim Congress, Melbourne, Australia.
Simmonds, J. G. (2000). 'The ground of one's being': Psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists on spiritual issues as patients and practitioners. Australian Association of Group Psychotherapists Conference, Melbourne, 17 - 19 November, 2000.
Simmonds, J. G. (1999). Recovering a space for Spirit in psychoanalytic thought. Scientific and Medical Network Explorations in Science and Human Experience Annual Conference, Cret-Berard, Switzerland.
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