Trudi Mackenzie

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Bachelor of Science (Pharmacology and Psychology) with Honours 

Masters of Psychology (Clinical) [University of Melbourne]

Member ACPA, APS

Psychology Board of Australia Endorsed Supervisor 

Trudi started her career in mental health research (ORYGEN, Centre for Clinical Research in Neuropsychiatry, UWA) prior to completing her training as a Clinical Psychologist in 2009. 
She was a Senior Psychologist at Austin Health at the Psychological Trauma Recovery Service for over nearly 15 years, where she worked since graduating, providing individual and group treatments to clients affected by natural disasters, occupational trauma, accidents, and violent crime. In this role, she has worked extensively with police officers, military personnel, veterans and the general public. 

She has also worked at Foundation House for five years, providing trauma-informed assessment and treatment of asylum seekers. 

Trudi recently commenced work at Turning Point as a Senior Psychologist working on their COPE team; concurrently treating clients with co-occurring PTSD and substance use disorders. She is also a therapist on the MPATHY trial - exploring the addition of MDMA-assisted therapy into a more traditional treatment protocol for PTSD and Alcohol Use Disorder.  

She provides clinical supervision in these roles and presents workshops on trauma interventions. 

Trudi has worked extensively with clients who have experienced a wide range of life stress and trauma, and associated issues including Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, relationship difficulties, anxiety, depression, addictive behaviours, eating disorders, grief, and physical problems including chronic pain. 

She is also interested in issues related to life transitions, grief and loss, infertility/IVF, and is welcoming of LGBTI and culturally diverse clients. 

She draws upon a developmental perspective in her work with clients, looking at how experiences across the lifespan have cultivated certain patterns of coping that may previously have been helpful but are now limiting. She is focussed on developing self-understanding, compassion and personal growth. 

Trudi is committed to evidence-based practice and draws upon Trauma-Focussed Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Schema Therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy, Yoga and Meditation, and Mindfulness based therapies along with psychodynamic concepts in her treatments. 

Publications

Lubman, D. Yucel, M., Kettle, J., Scaffidi, A.,   Mackenzie, T., Simmons, J., & Allen, N. (2008). Responsiveness to Drug   Cues and Natural Rewards in Opiate Addiction, Archives of General Psychiatry, 66(2), 205-213.

Jovev, M.,   Mackenzie, T., Whittle, S., Simmons, J., Allen, N., & Channen A. (2013). Temperament and maltreatment in the emergence of borderline and antisocial personality pathology during early   adolescence, Journal of the Canadian   Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 22(3), 220-229.PhD and Master of Psychology (Clinical), University of Melbourne