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Immediate Past ASPM President
Dr Johanna Lynch has championed primary care approaches to mental health that integrate physical, psychological, relational and meaning making across her 25 year career as a GP. She shifted her practice to care for adult survivors of trauma and neglect 15 years ago and established a transdisciplinary clinic in her community – Integrate Place (2009–2013). She writes about how GPs offer care ‘beyond symptoms’ and have different priorities and processes of care to those who offer tertiary mental health. She contributes internationally to conversations about the philosophy of generalism and whole person car. Her PhD in primary care approaches to ‘distress’ (not ‘disorder’) explored ‘Sense of Safety’ – as a strength-based and trauma-informed approach to the whole person. This has been published in an internationally acclaimed academic book: A whole person approach to wellbeing: Building Sense of Safety (2021).
Johanna is a Clinical Advisor to her local PHN on the Recognise Respond Refer Domestic Violence Project. She has been a trainer with ASPM and with RACGP since 2015, and facilitator of multidisciplinary case consultation groups with Mental Health Professionals Network since 2009. She is a Senior Lecturer at UQ School of Medicine where she teaches whole person care and helps students face their own vulnerability and humanity. She sits on a number of national committees – including the Intersectoral and Policy Committee for the ALIVE National Centre for Mental Health Research.
Member of the Education Sub-Committee
What do you do to relax?
Read, paint watercolours, embroider, crochet, watch for whales, or walk the dogs!
What is your favourite book that you are reading at the moment?
The White Girl by Tony Birch
Why have you decided to join the ASPM Board?
Because I believe that GPs who do complex psychosocial care alongside biomedicine are not represented in many of the current GP or mental health organisations, because ASPM provided a place for me to meet like-minded GPs and I want others to experience that support, and because I believe generalist approaches to the whole person are the most scientifically coherent approach to wellbeing!
Do you have any particular interests in the Education, Collegiate Connection, or Political Advocacy agendas of the ASPM?
I have a interest in each of these – but have more skills in Education than the other areas – I hope that as a team we can all contribute in each of these important aspects of ASPM’s vision