Clinical Psychologist | Psychotherapist
Supervision, complex case consultation, and ISTDP training
Supervision, complex case consultation, and ISTDP training
Supervision, complex case consultation, and ISTDP training
Sarah provides board-approved supervision, complex case consultation, and professional development for psychologists, psychiatrists, and allied health clinicians across Australia.
Sarah provides board-approved supervision, complex case consultation, and professional development for psychologists, psychiatrists, and allied health clinicians across Australia.
Board-approved supervision
Supervision is available in person at Robina, Gold Coast, or online across Australia. My supervision focuses on clinical complexity, formulation, countertransference and skill development. Although my work is predominantly informed by ISTDP and psychodynamic thinking, I am comfortable working with clinicians using a range of therapeutic approaches.
Psychology Board of Australia
Board-approved primary supervisor for provisional and registered psychologists undertaking supervised practice.
RANZCP Non-Doctor Approved
Approved supervisor for psychiatry registrars under the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists framework.
STAP Accredited
Accredited through the Supervisor Training and Accreditation Programme, meeting national standards for clinical supervision practice.
Board-approved supervision
Supervision is available in person at Robina, Gold Coast, or online across Australia. My supervision focuses on clinical complexity, formulation, countertransference and skill development. Although my work is predominantly informed by ISTDP and psychodynamic thinking, I am comfortable working with clinicians using a range of therapeutic approaches.
Psychology Board of Australia
Board-approved primary supervisor for provisional and registered psychologists undertaking supervised practice.
RANZCP Non-Doctor Approved
Approved supervisor for psychiatry registrars under the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists framework.
STAP Accredited
Accredited through the Supervisor Training and Accreditation Programme, meeting national standards for clinical supervision practice.
Board-approved supervision
Supervision is available in person at Robina, Gold Coast, or online across Australia. My supervision focuses on clinical complexity, formulation, countertransference and skill development. Although my work is predominantly informed by ISTDP and psychodynamic thinking, I am comfortable working with clinicians using a range of therapeutic approaches.
Psychology Board of Australia
Board-approved primary supervisor for provisional and registered psychologists undertaking supervised practice.
RANZCP Non-Doctor Approved
Approved supervisor for psychiatry registrars under the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists framework.
STAP Accredited
Accredited through the Supervisor Training and Accreditation Programme, meeting national standards for clinical supervision practice.
Complex case consultation
Complex presentations often require more than another opinion—they require a deeper understanding of the psychological processes driving distress and maintaining difficulty. Sarah provides consultation to individual clinicians, multidisciplinary teams, and health services to assist with complex assessment, formulation, treatment planning, and team decision-making.
Consultations may be provided as a single case review or as ongoing support to teams managing challenging presentations, with particular expertise in trauma, personality disorders, eating disorders, functional neurological disorder (FND), persistent physical symptoms, treatment-resistant mental health conditions, and high-risk presentations.
The aim is not simply to answer “What diagnosis does this person have?” but to understand “What is happening here, and what does this patient need from us now?”
Professional development workshops
I provide professional development workshops for clinical teams, training programs and professional organisations. Topics include ISTDP principles and techniques, working with complex presentations, anxiety regulation, defence identification, trauma, formulation and persistent physical symptoms. Workshops can be tailored to the needs and experience of individual teams.
Complex case consultation
Complex presentations often require more than another opinion—they require a deeper understanding of the psychological processes driving distress and maintaining difficulty. Sarah provides consultation to individual clinicians, multidisciplinary teams, and health services to assist with complex assessment, formulation, treatment planning, and team decision-making.
Consultations may be provided as a single case review or as ongoing support to teams managing challenging presentations, with particular expertise in trauma, personality disorders, eating disorders, functional neurological disorder (FND), persistent physical symptoms, treatment-resistant mental health conditions, and high-risk presentations.
The aim is not simply to answer “What diagnosis does this person have?” but to understand “What is happening here, and what does this patient need from us now?”
Professional development workshops
I provide professional development workshops for clinical teams, training programs and professional organisations. Topics include ISTDP principles and techniques, working with complex presentations, anxiety regulation, defence identification, trauma, formulation and persistent physical symptoms. Workshops can be tailored to the needs and experience of individual teams.
Complex case consultation
Complex presentations often require more than another opinion—they require a deeper understanding of the psychological processes driving distress and maintaining difficulty. Sarah provides consultation to individual clinicians, multidisciplinary teams, and health services to assist with complex assessment, formulation, treatment planning, and team decision-making.
Consultations may be provided as a single case review or as ongoing support to teams managing challenging presentations, with particular expertise in trauma, personality disorders, eating disorders, functional neurological disorder (FND), persistent physical symptoms, treatment-resistant mental health conditions, and high-risk presentations.
The aim is not simply to answer “What diagnosis does this person have?” but to understand “What is happening here, and what does this patient need from us now?”
Professional development workshops
I provide professional development workshops for clinical teams, training programs and professional organisations. Topics include ISTDP principles and techniques, working with complex presentations, anxiety regulation, defence identification, trauma, formulation and persistent physical symptoms. Workshops can be tailored to the needs and experience of individual teams.
New professional development opportunities for 2027
2027 Workshops & Clinical Groups
Practical, clinically focused learning for psychologists, psychiatrists and mental health professionals. Expressions of interest are now open for the following workshops and small-group consultation.
When Therapy Gets Stuck
Understanding what gets in the way of therapeutic change
A practical one-day workshop exploring what happens when therapy becomes repetitive, stalled or difficult to move forward.
Using clinical examples and experiential learning, we will explore anxiety, avoidance, defences and the therapeutic relationship — and how clinicians can recognise and respond to the processes that keep patients stuck.
One-day workshop · First half of 2027
No previous ISTDP or psychodynamic training required.
EXPRESS INTEREST
Is It Me, or Is It the Patient?
Understanding projection, projective processes and the therapist’s emotional response
Have you ever left a session feeling unusually inadequate, frustrated, helpless, anxious or responsible — and wondered what just happened?
This one-day workshop explores how projection and projective processes unfold within therapy, and how our emotional responses as therapists can become valuable clinical information rather than something we simply react to.
One-day workshop · First half of 2027
No previous ISTDP or psychodynamic training required.
EXPRESS INTEREST
Complex Case Consultation Group
A small, closed group for clinicians working with complexity
A six-session consultation group for clinicians working with complex presentations, therapeutic impasses and cases that can leave both patient and therapist feeling stuck.
Using participants’ own clinical material, we will explore formulation, trauma, personality vulnerability, somatic presentations, anxiety, defensive processes and the therapeutic relationship.
6 fortnightly sessions · 2 hours · Online · Maximum 6 clinicians
Informed by ISTDP and psychodynamic thinking, but open to clinicians from a range of therapeutic approaches.
EXPRESS INTEREST
ISTDP Core Training
Three-year hybrid ISTDP Core Training combining online teaching, face-to-face learning, clinical integration and group supervision. The current cohort commenced in 2026. Enquiries are welcome regarding future training opportunities.
New professional development opportunities for 2027
2027 Workshops & Clinical Groups
Practical, clinically focused learning for psychologists, psychiatrists and mental health professionals. Expressions of interest are now open for the following workshops and small-group consultation.
When Therapy Gets Stuck
Understanding what gets in the way of therapeutic change
A practical one-day workshop exploring what happens when therapy becomes repetitive, stalled or difficult to move forward.
Using clinical examples and experiential learning, we will explore anxiety, avoidance, defences and the therapeutic relationship — and how clinicians can recognise and respond to the processes that keep patients stuck.
One-day workshop · First half of 2027
No previous ISTDP or psychodynamic training required.
EXPRESS INTEREST
Is It Me, or Is It the Patient?
Understanding projection, projective processes and the therapist’s emotional response
Have you ever left a session feeling unusually inadequate, frustrated, helpless, anxious or responsible — and wondered what just happened?
This one-day workshop explores how projection and projective processes unfold within therapy, and how our emotional responses as therapists can become valuable clinical information rather than something we simply react to.
One-day workshop · First half of 2027
No previous ISTDP or psychodynamic training required.
EXPRESS INTEREST
Complex Case Consultation Group
A small, closed group for clinicians working with complexity
A six-session consultation group for clinicians working with complex presentations, therapeutic impasses and cases that can leave both patient and therapist feeling stuck.
Using participants’ own clinical material, we will explore formulation, trauma, personality vulnerability, somatic presentations, anxiety, defensive processes and the therapeutic relationship.
6 fortnightly sessions · 2 hours · Online · Maximum 6 clinicians
Informed by ISTDP and psychodynamic thinking, but open to clinicians from a range of therapeutic approaches.
EXPRESS INTEREST
ISTDP Core Training
Three-year hybrid ISTDP Core Training combining online teaching, face-to-face learning, clinical integration and group supervision. The current cohort commenced in 2026. Enquiries are welcome regarding future training opportunities.
New professional development opportunities for 2027
2027 Workshops & Clinical Groups
Practical, clinically focused learning for psychologists, psychiatrists and mental health professionals. Expressions of interest are now open for the following workshops and small-group consultation.
When Therapy Gets Stuck
Understanding what gets in the way of therapeutic change
A practical one-day workshop exploring what happens when therapy becomes repetitive, stalled or difficult to move forward.
Using clinical examples and experiential learning, we will explore anxiety, avoidance, defences and the therapeutic relationship — and how clinicians can recognise and respond to the processes that keep patients stuck.
One-day workshop · First half of 2027
No previous ISTDP or psychodynamic training required.
EXPRESS INTEREST
Is It Me, or Is It the Patient?
Understanding projection, projective processes and the therapist’s emotional response
Have you ever left a session feeling unusually inadequate, frustrated, helpless, anxious or responsible — and wondered what just happened?
This one-day workshop explores how projection and projective processes unfold within therapy, and how our emotional responses as therapists can become valuable clinical information rather than something we simply react to.
One-day workshop · First half of 2027
No previous ISTDP or psychodynamic training required.
EXPRESS INTEREST
Complex Case Consultation Group
A small, closed group for clinicians working with complexity
A six-session consultation group for clinicians working with complex presentations, therapeutic impasses and cases that can leave both patient and therapist feeling stuck.
Using participants’ own clinical material, we will explore formulation, trauma, personality vulnerability, somatic presentations, anxiety, defensive processes and the therapeutic relationship.
6 fortnightly sessions · 2 hours · Online · Maximum 6 clinicians
Informed by ISTDP and psychodynamic thinking, but open to clinicians from a range of therapeutic approaches.
EXPRESS INTEREST
ISTDP Core Training
Three-year hybrid ISTDP Core Training combining online teaching, face-to-face learning, clinical integration and group supervision. The current cohort commenced in 2026. Enquiries are welcome regarding future training opportunities.
Express interest
Express interest
Register your interest in a 2027 workshop or the Complex Case Consultation Group. There’s no commitment — Sarah will be in touch with dates and details as they’re confirmed.
Sarah will only use your details to respond to your expression of interest and send related training updates. You can unsubscribe at any time.
Ready to work together?
Whether you’re seeking supervision, complex case consultation, professional development or ISTDP training, you’re welcome to get in touch to discuss what you need.
Ready to work together?
Whether you’re seeking supervision, complex case consultation, professional development or ISTDP training, you’re welcome to get in touch to discuss what you need.
Ready to work together?
Whether you’re seeking supervision, complex case consultation, professional development or ISTDP training, you’re welcome to get in touch to discuss what you need.
Dr Sarah Walker
Clinical Psychologist | Psychotherapist
Clinical Psychologist, Psychodynamic Psychotherapist.
AHPRA Licence number: PSY0000966143
Robina, Gold Coast · Online
contact@drsarah-walker.com · 07 5575 8855
© 2026 Dr Sarah Walker. All rights reserved.
© 2026 Dr Sarah Walker. All rights reserved.
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AHPRA PSY0000966143