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Julie Cochrane

Carlton South,Victoria

Summary

Director of Dynamic Psychotherapy, a psychology practice with 28 psychologists and psychotherapists

Teacher and Supervisor of Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP)

Registered Psychologist with Clinical Endorsement - AHPRA registration number PSY0001120782

Board of Psychology – Certified Supervisor

Overview

40
40
years of professional experience

Work History

Director

Dynamic Psychotherapy
03.2017 - Current

Teacher and Supervisor of ISTDP

ISTDP Australia
03.2014 - Current

Teaching 1, 2 and 3-day courses, and 3-year courses on Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy in Australia, New Zealand, India, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Malaysia, Portugal and Turkey

EAP Provider

Colac Area Health
01.2011 - 12.2019

Supervisor

Colac Maternal Health Nurses
01.2011 - 12.2019

Director

Colac Otway Psychology
11.2010 - 12.2019

Psychologist

Eltham Ridge Medical Centre
12.1995 - 12.1999

Psychologist

St. Michael's Grammar School
02.1997 - 02.1998

Staff Psychologist

Department Of Business And Trade
12.1995 - 09.1996

Provisional Psychologist

Eltham Ridge Medical Centre
07.1994 - 12.1995

30-day University Placement

Geelong CAMHS
06.1995 - 10.1995

Placement for Master of Clinical Psychology course

50-day University Placement

Bouverie Family Therapy Centre
02.1995 - 10.1995

Placement for Master of Clinical Psychology course

Research Assistant to Professor Bob Cummins

Deakin University
01.1994 - 10.1995

Five-day University Placement

Leading Pathways
02.1995 - 03.1995

Placement for Master of Clinical Psychology course

20-day University Placement

Melville Clinic
07.1994 - 03.1995

Placement for Master of Clinical Psychology course

Ten-day University Placement

Royal Park Hospital
01.1995 - 02.1995

Placement for Master of Clinical Psychology course

Member of Victoria Police

Victoria Police Force
03.1983 - 03.1994

Five-day University Placement

North West CATT
01.1994 - 01.1994

Placement for Master of Clinical Psychology course

Probationary Psychologist

The Cairnmillar Institute
01.1993 - 01.1994

Education

Secondary Education -

Ivanhoe Girls' Grammar School
Ivanhoe, VIC
12-1981

Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences (Psychology) -

Monash University
Melbourne, VIC
11-1991

Graduate Diploma of Arts (Psychology) -

Deakin University
Melbourne, VIC
11-1993

Certificate of Counselling And Psychotherapy -

The Cairnmillar Institute
Melbourne, VIC
11-1993

Certificate of Trauma Therapy -

The Cairnmillar Institute
Melbourne
11-1993

Master of Clinical Psychology -

Deakin University
Melbourne, VIC
11-1995

Certificate of Family Therapy -

Bouverie Family Therapy Centre
Melbourne, VIC
11-1995

Interpersonal Psychotherapy -

Professor Christopher Fairburn
06-1995

Certificate of Relationship Therapy -

Relationships Australia
Melbourne, VIC
06-1996

Specialist Certificate in Relationship Counselling -

Relationships Australia
Melbourne, Victoria
06-1996

Graduate Diploma Parent And Infant Mental Health -

The University of Melbourne
Melbourne, VIC
11-1996

ISTDP Immersion Course -

Dr Patricia Coughlin
Melbourne, Australia
08-1999

Six Day Training Course in ISTDP -

VKDP Summer School
Morlet, Cote D'Or, France
06-2011

Spring School in ISTDP -

Dr Allan Abbas
Montegrotto Terme, Italy
06-2011

ISTDP Master Class -

Josette Ten Have-de Labike And Dr Kees Cornelissen
Chiang Mai, Thailand
01-2012

Core Training in ISTDP - Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy.

Ersta Skandal
Stockholm, Sweden
12-2014

Three-day Intensive ISTDP Training -

Jon Frederickson MSW
Melbourne, Victoria
08-2014

Advanced Training in ISTDP - Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy

Jon Frederickson MSW And The ISTDP Institute
Stockholm, Sweden
11-2017

Across The Spectrum of Psychopathology -

Dr Patricia Coughlin PhD
Melbourne, Victoria
02-2015

Training of Trainers in ISTDP - Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy

Jon Frederickson MSW And The ISTDP Institute
11-2018

Working With The Highly Resistant Patient -

Jon Frederickson
Carlton, Melbourne
08-2015

Facilitating Transformational Change -

Patricia Coughlin PhD
Carlton, Victoria
01-2016

Working With Treatment Resistant Depression -

Jon Frederickson
Carlton, Melbourne
08-2016

Working Towards Deep And Enduring Character Change -

Dr Patricia Coughlin PhD
Melbourne, Victoria
02-2017

The Man Who Thought Therapy Was Bullshit -

Jon Frederickson
Melbourne, Victoria
08-2018

Head And Collision -

John Rathauser
Carlton, Victoria
10-2018

Whatever Happened To The Oedipal Complex? -

ISTDP Seminar With Dr Patricia Coughlin
Melbourne, Victoria
03-2019

Trauma - Living Through And Working Through -

Jon Frederickson
Melbourne, Victoria
08-2019

Working With Fragility -

Johannes Ermagan
Via Zoom
10-2020

Working With Splitting And Dissociation -

Jon Frederickson
Via Zoom
02-2021

Developing A Therapeutic Alliance With ISTDP -

Jon Frederickson & Julie Cochrane
Via Zoom
05-2021

The Wish To Suffer -

Jon Frederickson
Via Zoom
06-2021

Repression: When Anger Goes Inward -

Jon Frederickson
Via Zoom
11-2021

Building An Alliance -

Jon Frederickson
Via Zoom
02-2022

Workings With Thresholds Across High Resistance -

Jon Frederickson
Via Zoom
08-2022

Additional Information

Professional Development: 2022 - 2023

  • Current trends in neuroscience in regards to attachment theory and psychotherapy practice - APS Webinar
  • A Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy (PACT): What is it and how does it differ from other couples therapies? - APS Webinar
  • Time-limited psychodynamic psychotherapy with adults, children, adolescents, and parents - APS Webinar
  • Managing the risks of multiple relationships and multiple clients - APS Webinar
  • Men in Mind. Understanding and responding to male distress and suicidality - APS Webinar
  • Trauma-focused Therapy for PTSD and Complex PTSD - APS Webinar Schema Therapy:Treating Trauma - APS Webinar
  • Evaluation of Supervisees Using Outcome Measures - STAP Training with Vanessa Spilling • 2023
  • The Patient Who Beat His Child - One day workshop with Jon Frederickson MSW • 2023
  • The ISTDP Trial Therapy Course - Assistant Professor Joel Town, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada• 2023


Professional Development relating to supervising: 2022 - 2023

  • Clinical Supervision with Jon Kettle - specific to supervision, including reading and discussing chapters from Nancy McWilliams' (2021)
  • Clinical Supervision with Jon Frederickson MSW specific to supervision



Books Read 2022-2023 relating to supervising:

  • Becoming An Effective Supervisor: A Workbook for Counselors and Psychotherapists -Campbell, Jane M. (2000)
  • Psychoanalytic Supervision -McWilliams, Nancy (2021)
  • Psychodynamic Supervision:Perspectives of the Supervisor and the Supervisee - Rock, Martin H. (1997)
  • The Cycle of Excellence: Using Deliberate Practice to Improve Supervision and Training - Rousmaniere, T., Goodyear, R. K., Miller, S. D., and Wampold, B. E. (Eds). (2017)
  • Simply Effective CBT Supervision - Scott, Michael, J. (2013)


Summary

1981 - Completed Year 12 Ivanhoe Girls' Grammar School (academic scholarship)

1982 - LaTrobe University BBSc (psychology) - deferred

1982 - State Bank of Victoria - clerk and teller (6 months)

7 March 1983 - 7 March 1994: Victoria Police

Five years in uniform including inner suburban police stations. Special assignments based on aptitude including assignment to special duties. I attended multiple serious crimes including the mass murder at Hoddle Street by Julian Knight in 1987.

I was accepted into the Criminal Investigation Bureau less than five years after graduation and worked in various roles including as a detective senior constable investigating organised crime at the Tactical Investigation Group and was repeatedly briefly seconded to the Drug Squad to perform undercover work on various crime groups including individuals considered so dangerous that I was repeatedly accompanied at close proximity by covert teams from the Special Operations Group.

I was included in a small group that performed work within but separate to mainstream Drug Squad activities in an attempt to circumvent allegedly corrupt police knowing of the investigations. This was considered dangerous as we could not rely on the usual range of police resources in order to remain covert. I was asked to participate in this group because my integrity was very high. I was part of the investigation into the "Hamilton-Byrne Family" including being assigned to obtain statements from children who were raised in a cult.

I also worked at Brunswick C.I.B. and Flemington C.I.B. including undertaking the first investigation into the systematic abuse of special needs patients by their carers. Over a six-year period I regularly performed in excess of 20 hours per week of unpaid overtime.


15.02.83 - commenced two courses at The Cairnmillar Institute and work as a provisional psychologist. I was given four hours of free training in return for working in an unpaid position in the low-cost clinic. I was also given access to a free 1.5 hour group supervision per week with Dr Francis Macnab and one hour of individual supervision per week. I organised to be rostered on leave on Tuesdays and Wednesday evenings, on a permanent basis, to enable me to undertake this opportunity which I thought would help me to become a more rounded person and a better detective. My colleagues at Brunswick C.I. B. facilitated this in exchange for that I undertook to work every weekend unless on annual leave i.e. it took considerable organising and commitment to take part in this opportunity.


28.09.93 - I took sick leave from the Victoria Police due to a significant trauma

07.03.94 - I commenced a Master of Clinical Psychology degree at Deakin University

When I left the Victoria Police to undertake a Master of Clinical Psychology, my intention was to become as effective as possible as a psychologist to help address psychological distress. I read widely and canvassed psychologists that I met in the course of my studies and when in 1995 I learned of Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) I decided that in learning ISTDP it would possibly help me in this goal. I studied under the supervision of a U.S.-based clinical psychologist for some time. She helped me understand the importance of being able to see exactly what happened in the therapy session for optimal learning and understanding, and to optimally help a patient. I was becoming familiar with video recording sessions as I was on a 12-month university placement at Bouverie Family Therapy Centre at the time, in addition to attending their 12-month family therapy training (that I was given at a reduced cost in return for undertaking administration tasks for them), and video recording sessions was common practice at Bouverie Family Therapy Session, now know as The Bouverie Centre and attached to LaTrobe University.


I waited until my youngest child was six years old before commencing formal training in ISTDP which meant travelling overseas for three days at a time four times a year, for three years. I had the option of training in Canada, the U.S., or a number of European countries and I elected to train in Sweden. Undertaking this three-year course was a very big commitment, in terms of time and financially. My closest friend lives in Western Australia but undertook to come to my home to help my youngest child to manage my absence i.e. it was also a big commitment for my friend. Each three-day block of training cost me approximately $10,000 - over $2,200 in training fees and the remainder being airfares, accommodation, food, and time lost from work in that I was usually absent for six days. I did not hesitate to undertake this training. I had seen a lot of emotional suffering in the Victoria Police - both in members of the public and in members of the Victoria Police. It was important to me that I tried to become as effective as possible as a therapist if I was to work as a therapist.

I began to get requests from other Australian therapists to help them train. I also got requests from therapists wanting to work with me. From 2017 I accepted psychologists to come and work with me which by 2019 led to the establishment of the private practice that I now head, Dynamic Psychotherapy. In the third year of my Core Training in ISTDP, I was asked to join an Advanced Training and then a training for teachers and supervisors of ISTDP. I was initially reluctant to do so but the teacher was persistent and in 2015 I began a 3.5 year "Training of Trainers" course with Jon Frederickson who remains my supervisor and now I co-teach with him. It is unusual for students to be approached to join these trainings - usually they request to join. I now run more trainings within Australia and internationally than any other teacher including that I have this year had requests from three U.K.-based psychologists to train with me, despite that they have a number of local Core Trainings that they can choose from. I am told that I am exceptionally "kind" as a teacher and promote groups that are non-competitive but generally excel at learning. There are still exceptions to this and I do not manage to help all students to become proficient in ISTDP including that learning is also very dependant on the individual student

Professional


Timeline

Director

Dynamic Psychotherapy
03.2017 - Current

Teacher and Supervisor of ISTDP

ISTDP Australia
03.2014 - Current

EAP Provider

Colac Area Health
01.2011 - 12.2019

Supervisor

Colac Maternal Health Nurses
01.2011 - 12.2019

Director

Colac Otway Psychology
11.2010 - 12.2019

Psychologist

St. Michael's Grammar School
02.1997 - 02.1998

Psychologist

Eltham Ridge Medical Centre
12.1995 - 12.1999

Staff Psychologist

Department Of Business And Trade
12.1995 - 09.1996

30-day University Placement

Geelong CAMHS
06.1995 - 10.1995

50-day University Placement

Bouverie Family Therapy Centre
02.1995 - 10.1995

Five-day University Placement

Leading Pathways
02.1995 - 03.1995

Ten-day University Placement

Royal Park Hospital
01.1995 - 02.1995

Provisional Psychologist

Eltham Ridge Medical Centre
07.1994 - 12.1995

20-day University Placement

Melville Clinic
07.1994 - 03.1995

Research Assistant to Professor Bob Cummins

Deakin University
01.1994 - 10.1995

Five-day University Placement

North West CATT
01.1994 - 01.1994

Probationary Psychologist

The Cairnmillar Institute
01.1993 - 01.1994

Member of Victoria Police

Victoria Police Force
03.1983 - 03.1994

Secondary Education -

Ivanhoe Girls' Grammar School

Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences (Psychology) -

Monash University

Graduate Diploma of Arts (Psychology) -

Deakin University

Certificate of Counselling And Psychotherapy -

The Cairnmillar Institute

Certificate of Trauma Therapy -

The Cairnmillar Institute

Master of Clinical Psychology -

Deakin University

Certificate of Family Therapy -

Bouverie Family Therapy Centre

Interpersonal Psychotherapy -

Professor Christopher Fairburn

Certificate of Relationship Therapy -

Relationships Australia

Specialist Certificate in Relationship Counselling -

Relationships Australia

Graduate Diploma Parent And Infant Mental Health -

The University of Melbourne

ISTDP Immersion Course -

Dr Patricia Coughlin

Six Day Training Course in ISTDP -

VKDP Summer School

Spring School in ISTDP -

Dr Allan Abbas

ISTDP Master Class -

Josette Ten Have-de Labike And Dr Kees Cornelissen

Core Training in ISTDP - Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy.

Ersta Skandal

Three-day Intensive ISTDP Training -

Jon Frederickson MSW

Advanced Training in ISTDP - Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy

Jon Frederickson MSW And The ISTDP Institute

Across The Spectrum of Psychopathology -

Dr Patricia Coughlin PhD

Training of Trainers in ISTDP - Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy

Jon Frederickson MSW And The ISTDP Institute

Working With The Highly Resistant Patient -

Jon Frederickson

Facilitating Transformational Change -

Patricia Coughlin PhD

Working With Treatment Resistant Depression -

Jon Frederickson

Working Towards Deep And Enduring Character Change -

Dr Patricia Coughlin PhD

The Man Who Thought Therapy Was Bullshit -

Jon Frederickson

Head And Collision -

John Rathauser

Whatever Happened To The Oedipal Complex? -

ISTDP Seminar With Dr Patricia Coughlin

Trauma - Living Through And Working Through -

Jon Frederickson

Working With Fragility -

Johannes Ermagan

Working With Splitting And Dissociation -

Jon Frederickson

Developing A Therapeutic Alliance With ISTDP -

Jon Frederickson & Julie Cochrane

The Wish To Suffer -

Jon Frederickson

Repression: When Anger Goes Inward -

Jon Frederickson

Building An Alliance -

Jon Frederickson

Workings With Thresholds Across High Resistance -

Jon Frederickson
Julie Cochrane