ABOUT

Jackie's qualifications

Bachelor of Health Science
Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours)(Psychology)
Graduate Diploma in Psychology
Masters of Clinical Psychology (Distinction)
Member of the Australian Psychological Society (MAPS)
Fellow of the Australian College of Clinical Psychologists (FCCLP)
Member of the Australian Disaster Response Network
AHPRA Approved Primary Supervisor (All Training Pathways)
Past Chair of the Gippsland Branch of the APS (2021-2023)

Jackie Hooper

Clinical Psychologist 
supervisor 

I grew up on an intergenerational farm in rural Victoria.
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​You learn quickly on a farm that confident wrongness costs you: animals, crops, sometimes more. Intellectual ability without practical know-how when a calf is in trouble at 2am is useless. That has shaped how I practise more than any single training has, and it’s why I take rural and regional work as seriously as I do. People in country places deserve the same quality of thinking and skill proficiency as people in cities, and most of the time they’re getting less of it.

Twenty years on, I’ve worked across public and private, inpatient and community, clinical and research, teaching and supervision, metro and rural. I’ve trained in most of the modalities you’d expect of a senior clinician: CBT, ACT, schema, EMDR, IFS, mindful compassion, somatic and emotion-focused, play therapy, psychotherapy including Gestalt and existential, and animal-assisted and nature-based work. I don’t list them as a menu.

The work I’m actually known for is complex formulation, differential diagnosis, relational depth, and the ethics of working at the edge of what’s clear, which is most of clinical practice, if we’re being honest about it.

I do this work because I care about the clinicians, and the children and families on the other side of it. That’s the reason the practice is narrow: specific work, where it matters most.

Professional Focus

• Supervising psychologists doing complex work
• Neurodevelopmental assessment, particularly ambiguous presentations
• Contributing to a sustainable rural and regional psychology workforce
• Burnout prevention as a clinical and ethical issue, not a wellness one