Practical Health is with you in life, genuinely wishing for you to be your best self. We have the expertise, knowledge, background, and evidenced based skills to walk beside you in challenging times. We are rural and pride ourselves in our outstanding Telehealth service to reach the needs of our rural community.

We are a boutique psychological and allied health practice offering the highest level of professional, discreet, and ultimate standard of service within our rural community.

We get rural, are rural, and offer face to face, and specialty Telehealth options. We use the highest standard of medical based technologies to ensure your privacy is our priority.

We work flexibly, work to support you through life, and seek for you to flourish and thrive.

About

Dr. Amanda Jefferys
Senior Clinical & Health Psychologist

B. Psych (Hons), Doctorate in Clinical and in Health Psychology. MAPS, FCCLP, FCHP.

Psych. Board Approved Clinical Supervisor.

Fitness Professional.

Dr Amanda Jefferys, is a Senior Clinical and Health psychologist, she has a wealth of experience in psychology, well-being, and sports domains. Amanda’s background and advanced tertiary level training has developed specialties in working into trauma exposure, disordered eating behaviours, and complex physical and psychological health conditions.

She is also highly skilled in offering and interpretation of psychological assessments for legal, medico-legal, and the justice system.

Amanda has a broad range of demands coupled by her work with the University, work in corporate presentations, writing for media, and in her specialty work with military personnel.

Karlie McDonald

Registered Psychologist

B Psych (Hons)

Karlie McDonald is a registered Psychologist with vast experience using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), mindfulness and solution focused interventions to help people overcome feelings of anxiety and depression, increase self-esteem and confidence, enhance personal relationships, manage stress and conflict at home and work, deal with grief and loss and work through problems related to alcohol and drug use.

Psychology

Our team have extensive
experience in working into trauma related fields, and exposure to grief and loss events, this is balanced brilliantly with Dr Amanda Jefferys work into sports and health domains.

Her expertise extends to the provision diagnosis, assessments and reports in the criminal justice, legal and neuropsychological areas.

Education

Practical Health Consulting is a provider of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for Health Professionals, including

Psychologists, Allied Health

workers, and workers within health and mental health domains, with a strong focus on rural issues.

We also offer professional speakers on a range of health topics.

Consulting

Offering management consulting to help organisations improve their performance, operating primarily through the analysis of existing organisational problems and the development of plans for improvement.

We aim to assist organisations to implement more effective or

efficient ways of performing work tasks and growing the business.