Amy Cooper

Pronouns: She/her

M. App. Psych (Sport); B. Psych (Hons); B. Ex Sci & HM

In my own career as a psychologist, I've been really lucky to have worked with a wide range of clients, in a variety of settings. In addition to working at SHIPS, I've worked a lot with adolescents affected by complex trauma (direct, vicarious and intergenerational), clients navigating challenging relationships (familial, platonic, romantic, sexual), neurodivergent people, people from CALD communities and people with intellectual disabilities. I used to work with dancers and actors as a performance psychologist, delivered offender treatment in some forensic settings, and sometimes still work in academia, teaching or assessing sport and exercise psychology. In supervision, I work with psychologists at the very start of their career and psychologists in positions of seniority or team leadership (some in supervisory roles themselves), as well as professionals from other backgrounds like social work, occupational therapy and education. I like to do a lot of supervisory work on transference and countertransference, practitioner self-reflection, responding to client ambivalence and balancing proactive treatment with reactive distress management. I'm especially passionate about teaching practitioners to identify, target and treat clients' underlying issues, rather than circling around superficial issues - this is something that comes up a lot in the kind of work we do at SHIPS.