Professional experience.
Lucinda has lived and breathed psychology since commencing the Bachelor of Applied Science (Psychology) 10 years ago. After completing her honours, she dived into the Doctorate of Psychology (Clinical) program where her thesis explored the relationships between adolescent depression, families, and mindfulness. Since graduating, Lucinda has worked across public, private, and not-for-profit settings.
Lucinda has years of experience in private practice, working with adolescents and adults presenting with a range of mental health difficulties including anxiety, depression, eating disorders, poor body image, low self-worth, sleep disturbance, perfectionism, grief and loss, and more.
Lucinda also has extensive experience in mindfulness coaching, seeing clients one-on-one for education and practical skills training, as well as facilitating mindfulness workshops for school teachers and in the corporate sector around Australia. She has developed numerous mindfulness programs as well as a complete primary school mindfulness curriculum, and has created and recorded mindfulness meditations for renowned mindfulness meditation apps including Smiling Mind, Buddhify, and Insight Timer.
In addition to her private practice work, Lucinda develops positive psychology resources for psychologists and other mental health professionals around the world.
Publications.
Poole, L. A., Knight, T., Toumbourou, J. W., Lubman, D. I., Bertino, M. D. & Lewis, A. J (2017). A randomised controlled trial of the impact of a family-based adolescent depression intervention on both youth and parent mental health outcomes. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology.
Poole, L. A., Lewis, A. J., Toumbourou, J. W., Knight, T., Bertino, M. D. & Pryor, R. (2016). A multi-family group intervention for adolescent depression: The BEST MOOD program. Family Process.
Poole, L. A., Toumbourou, J. W., Knight, T., Lubman, D. I., Skewes, J., Bertino, M. D. & Lewis, A. J. (2017). Family functioning following a family-based treatment for adolescent depression: Outcomes of a randomized controlled trial. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology.
Hendrieckx, C., Poole L. A., Sharifi, A., Jayawardene, D., Loh M., Horsburgh, J. C., Bach, L. A., O’neal, D. N., Speight, J. (2017). ‘It is definitely a game changer’: A qualitative study of experiences with in-home overnight closed-loop technology among adults with type 1 diabetes. Diabetes Technology and Therapeutics.
Lewis, A. J., Knight, T., Germanov, G., Benstead, M. L., Joseph, C. I., & Poole, L. (2015). The impact on family functioning of social media use by depressed adolescents: a qualitative analysis of the family options study. Frontiers in Psychiatry.