Psychology Board members

Ms Rachel Phillips

Appointed as Chair and a practitioner member from Queensland

General Registration (Higher Degree pathway), Endorsement in Clinical Psychology

• B Arts (Hons), M Clin Psych

Rachel Phillips is an endorsed Clinical Psychologist and Board-approved supervisor of provisional psychologists. Rachel has worked predominantly in the public health sector across a variety of settings, including acute hospital, community child and youth mental health, and alcohol and drug outpatients. She has more recently worked in psychology leadership positions and hospital administration roles. She has also worked in private practice – as a sole practitioner, within large practices, and with psychiatrists. Rachel has had a longstanding role as a clinical supervisor of provisional psychologists completing the different pathways to general registration as well as registrars in clinical psychology.

Rachel’s experience in psychology regulation started when she was appointed to the National Psychology Examination committee in 2010 and assumed the Chair role in 2017. She was appointed to the Queensland Regional Board in 2014 and to the Psychology Board of Australia in August 2015.

Chris Willcox

Appointed as a practitioner member from New South Wales

Chris is a clinical psychologist who worked in public mental health for over 3 decades. He was head of Hunter New England Mental Health Psychology for 15 years and co-chair of the NSW Ministry of Health’s Psychology Advisory Network for 5 years.

He is a clinical professor at the University of Newcastle having taught into the undergraduate psychology and medical programs, professional and clinical psychology post graduate programs, and psychiatry training programs. Prior to national registration he chaired the Psychology Care and Assessment Committee of the Psychology Board of NSW.

Chris is the deputy president of the Psychology Council of NSW and immediate past chair of the PsyBA Registration and Compliance Committee. He is currently a senior professional member of the Guardianship Division of NCAT and a panel member of the NSW Mental Health Review Tribunal.

Costa Loucopoulos

Appointed as a community member

Costa has been an educator for over 30 years having worked as a subject coordinator, lecturer and tutor in Education at the University of New South Wales, University of Sydney and Western Sydney University.

Costa has worked with Aboriginal communities, engaging students in leadership, career and work planning in Sydney, and a project in Mornington Island, Queensland. He was the Curriculum Specialist, The Arts at the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority, and was awarded an Outstanding Professional Service Award by the Professional Teachers Council of New South Wales.

Most recently he has worked with 4C Transformative Learning as a Practice Leader in schools in NSW and QLD. He also has experience in facilitating transformative education practices in the health sectors since 2022, in particular, with the SCN8A Syndrome communities here and overseas. He sits on the Family and Consumer Committee for the Sydney Children's Hospital Network, and is the Director of Layla: The Festival of Mark Making; an event that celebrates and showcases artwork from children with SCN8A Syndrome from around the world.

Judi Walker

Appointed as a community member

Judi Walker has extensive skills in governance including clinical system governance. She understands the complexities of rural health service delivery and appreciates the values of health consumers as a person with lived experience of cancer. She is highly experienced in rural health policy and health services development and has a distinguished reputation in higher education research, medical education, academic and public sector governance, and strategic policy development.

Currently she holds a professorial position in the School of Medicine at the University of Tasmania and supports the Medicine Program through course review and accreditation work. She is non-executive director for two Not-For-Profit healthcare-related organisations and a member of several statewide committees, including the Tasmanian Health Senate.

Judi Walker was the inaugural Director of the University of Tasmania’s Department of Rural Health, and of its Rural Clinical School. At Monash University she was Professor and Head of the School of Rural Health. She was appointed to the Psychology Board of Australia in 2024.

Ms Miranda Bruyniks

Appointed as a community member

• MBA, B Occ Thy, GAICD

Miranda Bruyniks is a non-executive director and consultant who has worked in regulatory and human services roles. Miranda provides advice to government, boards, committees, and service providers about building safe and accessible services, and works with services, to use consumer feedback as an opportunity for improvement.

As Complaints Commissioner, National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Quality and Safeguards Commission, Miranda led the establishment of the first national complaints system about the quality of NDIS services, and the mandatory system for NDIS registered providers to respond to, and report, the abuse and neglect of people with disability.

At the Disability Services Commissioner in Victoria, Miranda led the oversight, investigation and resolution of critical incidents and complaints. Her experience includes oversight of service providers at the Department of Human Services and the Transport Accident Commission in Victoria, and managing the Medical Assessment Tribunals, a dispute resolution service in Queensland. Miranda was appointed to the Psychology Board of Australia in December 2021.

Sean Hambrook

Appointed as a practitioner member from ACT

General Registration (Higher Degree pathway), Endorsement in Clinical Psychology 

• B Arts, Grad Dip App Psych, M Clin Psych, Grad Cert Pub Admin

Sean Hambrook is an endorsed Clinical Psychologist and Board-approved supervisor of provisional psychologists, including registrars in clinical psychology. Sean has worked in the public health sector for over 15 years, predominantly in multidisciplinary teams across rehabilitation and geriatric settings. He has worked in psychology leadership positions over the past decade and more recently as the Professional Lead for Psychology at Canberra Health Services (CHS). He chaired the CHS Delirium Clinical Care Standard Implementation Working Group with responsibility for the development and implementation of policy to meet national accreditation standards.

Sean is currently working with the ACT Office of Industrial Relations and Workforce Strategy, and the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) on cultural reform across the ACT Public Health System and has been actively involved in industrial relations and enterprise agreement negotiations. Sean is an elected Governing Councillor for CPSU, and maintains a keen interest in public administration, governance, and accountability. He previously worked at the Commonwealth Attorney-Generals' Department in Territory Administration.

Professor Kimberley Norris

Appointed as a practitioner member from Tasmania

General Registration (Higher Degree pathway), Endorsement in Clinical Psychology

• B Arts (Hons), PhD Clin Psych

Kimberley Norris is an endorsed Clinical Psychologist and Board-approved supervisor of provisional psychologists. Kimberley works across clinical practice, education, research and evaluation contexts across a variety of settings, including community adult mental health, child and parental mental health, and extreme environments such as first responder and Antarctic populations.

She has more recently worked in psychology leadership positions and is currently employed as the Head of Discipline and Director of Postgraduate Professional Training Programs (Psychology and Counselling) at the University of Tasmania. She has also worked in private practice, and is the Consultant Clinical Psychologist for the Australian Antarctic Program. Kimberley has had a longstanding role as a supervisor of provisional psychologists completing the different pathways to general registration as well as registrars in clinical psychology.

Kimberley's experience in psychology regulation started when she was appointed to the ACT/VIC/TAS Regional Board in 2021. She was appointed to the Psychology Notifications Committee: Assessment and Psychology Immediate Action Committee in 2022, and to the Psychology Board of Australia in September 2023.

Mr Timothy Ridgway

Appointed as a practitioner member from South Australia

General Registration (4+2 pathway), Endorsement in Organisational Psychology

• B Arts (Hons)

Tim Ridgway is an endorsed organisational psychologist and a Board-approved supervisor for provisional psychologists. Tim has worked predominantly in private practice as a consultant to both public and private organisations across Australia and internationally, working on individual, team and organisational level assignments. He has extensive consulting experience in leadership, learning and development, executive coaching and psychological assessment. More recently Tim has worked with sporting organisations at state and local levels and with AFL clubs in South Australia, Queensland and Victoria.

Tim has held a board position with the Leukaemia Foundation of Australia since 2009 and provides consulting services to other boards on their performance, review and strategic planning. Tim was a foundation member of the advisory group to the Adelaide University Masters of Organisational Psychology program and has delivered lectures and supervised students of this program over many years. He is also a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Tim was appointed to the Psychology Board of Australia in October 2018.