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#195 Trauma-Informed Primary Care and Sense of Safety with Dr Johanna Lynch

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Host Dr Sam Manger is joined by Dr Johanna Lynch, an Australian General Practitioner who has spent the last 15 years working as a psychotherapist with adult survivors of childhood trauma and neglect. She founded a transdisciplinary trauma-informed clinic in Brisbane named Integrate Place which operated from 2009-2013 offering psychology, social work, trauma-informed yoga, art therapy and mental health nurse support. In 2019 she completed a PhD, in whole person approaches to distress, championing the sophisticated craft of generalist approaches to distress – integrating social science and biomedicine. This PhD, entitled Sense of Safety: a whole person approach to distress in primary care sought to integrate trauma-informed care into primary care. Dr Johanna Lynch works as a Senior Lecturer at The University of Queensland, teaching medical students about trauma-informed whole person care. She is an advisor to BlueKnot foundation, trains rural GPs as a Fellow of the Australian Society for Psychological Medicine and The Royal College of General Practitioners. Her website and Sense of Safety for Practitioners Course is available at https://www.drjohannalynch.com/ and you can use the code "PODCASTGIFT" to receive 5% off. Other resources mentioned: Australian Childhood Foundation Number Story BlueKnot Australian, New Zealand and Asian Creative Arts Therapies Association ... Job opportunity: Are you a GP, psychiatrist or nurse based in Sydney interested in mental health and whole of person health care? Exciting job opportunities have come up, please contact Dr Sam Manger for more [email protected] Interested in whole of person clinical practice and research that addresses the lifestyle and social determinants of illness and wellbeing? Check out the JCU postgraduate courses: Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma, and Master in Lifestyle Medicine. Dr Sam Manger on YouTube: Using lifestyle as medicine: A new era in chronic disease remission Our 3 week online microcredential in Lifestyle Medicine and Mental Health: Life and Mind available here. If you find this podcast valuable then subscribing, sharing, rating it 5 stars and leaving a review is appreciated. If you would like to join the team, send in feedback or request a topic, please contact me via thegpshow.com or [email protected] Thank you for listening and your support.

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