About Psychs in Schools

The Psychs in School Program was developed by Jesse Diggins and Nathan Castle who identified a need to access the best quality mental health support in schools. For students, teachers and families.

In 2020, they started partnering with Universities to find a way to provide an approach that improved student wellbeing at low cost. The result was developing a co-therapy model based on CBT and Feedback Informed treatment to improve mental health across schools. A support system to monitor success of treatments was integrated into the program and Senior Psychologists provide oversight and support to all student treatments.

The cornerstone of a great education is students feeling good in themselves first. Psychs in Schools makes this accessible to every school.

  • "Having Psychs in Schools working with us at Coral Park Primary School has been amazing. From the simple, straight forward on-boarding process to begin with, to working with the service on site two days a week through to hearing the positive and proactive engagement between the Psychs in Schools team and teaching staff. All elements have been a worthy addition to our wellbeing at school. We very much look forward to working with them again in 2024. "

    Melina Couper - Assistant Principal Wellbeing - Coral Park Primary School

  • "We've been connected with the Psychs in Schools program during 2023 and have nothing but positives to say. Communication with their team has been easy, timely and proactive. Any queries we've had have been followed up and the online consent form has made the process accessible to our families. The ability to provide psychology supports in school, with session numbers not limited has been invaluable. We would definitely recommend the Psychs in Schools service and hope to continue using them in the future. "

    Georgie McIlvenny, Student Wellbeing, North Geelong Secondary College

Our Values

 

Best Practice

Providing the highest quality support for student means best-practice is integrated into all that we do.

Integrity

Working within schools is a privilege and maintaining our integrity means being accountable to students, teachers and the school system as a whole.

Leadership

We want to lead by example. Providing best support within the Geelong community and publishing our results for full transparency.

Meet the Team

  • Jesse Diggins

    DIRECTOR

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  • Nathan Castle

    DIRECTOR

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  • Jen Lyons

    COMPANY OPERATIONS MANAGER

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  • Jodie Cooper

    PRACTICE MANAGER

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  • Belynda Evans

    PSYCHOLOGIST SUPERVISOR

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  • Brydie Huggins

    PSYCHOLOGIST SUPERVISOR

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  • Cindy Dvorscak

    PSYCHOLOGIST SUPERVISOR

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  • Clare Panetta

    REGIONAL MANAGER | PSYCHOLOGIST SUPERVISOR

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  • Dianne Summers

    PSYCHOLOGIST SUPERVISOR

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  • Jake Kraska

    REGIONAL MANAGER | PSYCHOLOGIST SUPERVISOR

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  • Kate Crosher

    PSYCHOLOGIST SUPERVISOR

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  • Samuel Pearce

    PSYCHOLOGIST SUPERVISOR

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  • Tori Etherington

    Psychologist Supervisor

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