Loyola McLean

A/Prof Loyola McLean is a Consultation-Liaison Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist in public, private and academic practice, with interests in the relational bodymind interface, stress system disorders, attachment, trauma, psychotherapy and integrated trauma-informed care (TIC), and the care and supervision of teams. She applies mixed methods approaches to her research and integrates the Conversational Model, attachment, bodymind and systems thinking into her therapeutic and supervisory approaches. Her Adult Attachment Interview Coder and Trainer experience influences her work, as does her family's Stolen and Hidden story as Indigenous Australians and her lived experience as a carer and a child of parents with mental illness. She is part of the Westmead Psychotherapy Program for Complex Traumatic Disorders, designing and delivering the new online Masters of Trauma-Informed Psychotherapy, and part of the MMed Psychiatry/FEC team at the Brain and Mind Centre, The University of Sydney. For joy and healing she makes music and values our Australian shared journey to reconciliation: Ngahnu wanarayimanha nurragi (Wajarri) - We are all walking home, together.