Luke Smith

Professional experience

Luke is a Registered Psychologist with six years’ experience working in various roles in the mental health industry. His clinical areas of interest include trauma, interpersonal conflict resolution and chronic pain, and he is trained in CBT, ACT, Schema, and DBT. Luke has experience working with clients from 17 to 70 years of age, as well as a wide range of cultural and socio-economic backgrounds including indigenous clients.

With an aptitude for facilitating meaningful conversations, Luke also offers his services as a Trainer with Access Psych. Over the past three years Luke has been responsible for presenting a range of external and internal training on a recurring basis, including on suicide risk management, and a range of psychological presentations including Cluster B Personality Disorders, trauma presentations, chronic pain presentations, and neurodiversity.

He has also delivered interactive training on a range of specific assessment and intervention services in the Occupational Rehabilitation space, and mental health in the workplace. His areas of interest for training includes workplace and occupational mental health, psychological safety, conflict resolution, trauma, and suicide risk management and prevention.

Interests

• Soccer
• Running
• Gym

What Luke loves about working in mental health

“I get a lot of satisfaction from seeing someone go from some of their lowest points in their lives to being right back on track. I also love the lightbulb moment when you make a breakthrough with a client, and they learn something about themselves that helps them understand their behaviour and a way to change to a more helpful mindset.”