Marianna Jaross The Psychology Board of Australia has proposed a model that would take training to become a psychologist from six to five years in order to address workforce shortages: This means culling the postgraduate degree requirements of the profession, and condensing the degree into a bachelor’s degree leading to general registration. There has been an air of discontent with individuals and groups advocating against the change. Perhaps this is more feedback than being

Marianna Jaross I spent the first several years of my working life in some form of counselling role: Support worker, counsellor, and psychotherapist. When you start working with people coming out of extended psychiatric care at the age of twenty-one, you see some things at an early age you may not have otherwise been exposed to. I started working as a counsellor at twenty-three; liaising with parole officers, running groups, and seeing clients for individual therapy. I comple

Marianna Jaross “I’m giving up my registration,” was not a sentence I had expected to say last year. This career was and is a huge part of my life and identity. Not-for-profit work. Private practice. Project work. Trying to carve out a role within psychology that expanded beyond one-to-one work and into the conversations I thought that we needed to be having within healthcare. I had thought that seeing 5-6 clients a day over a few days a week would be my life. And it just