A Whole Person Approach to Wellbeing
Building Sense of Safety
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Speaker, Trainer & Mentor
Johanna is a Senior Lecturer at The University of Queensland and presents to diverse audiences internationally and across Australia. She communicates with credibility and practical clinical insights focussing on her internationally acclaimed strength-based and trauma-informed approach to the whole person: Sense of Safety. She trains GPs, GP trainees, multidisciplinary mental health clinicians and medical students in whole person care and mental health skills. She is passionate about caring for clinicians across the disciplines through individual and group supervision and mentoring.
Clinician Researcher & Advocate
Johanna is an Australian GP (family doctor) of 25 years’ experience who has spent the last 15 years developing innovative clinical approaches to those who have survived childhood trauma and neglect. This clinical work lead to her research focussing on the link between life experience and health. She is a passionate advocate for primary care policy that prioritises generalist whole person approaches that do not fragment or objectify the person. Her research continues to explore the clinical usefulness of the concept of Sense of Safety. Her PhD was acclaimed as paradigm changing by international researchers, and is now an academic book accessed round the world.
Author, Integrator & Dreamer
Johanna sees integration of diverse forms of knowledge as an everyday skill of the generalist. Her writing attends to the patterns that link us and help us to see and care for the whole person. She has intentionally walked the boundaries between biomedicine and the social sciences - fascinated by how the mind and body, spirit and community connect and full of dreams about how medicine could relearn how to see the whole person. These are central themes of her internationally acclaimed PhD researching whole person approaches to distress in primary care.
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