Dr Sascha Hardwick
DIRECTOR
Clinical Psychologist & Clinical Neuropsychologist
BA (Hons), PhD (ClinPsych/ClinNeuro), MAPS
Sascha is a Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Neuropsychologist with 25 years worth of experience. She has worked in both the public and private sectors in Australia and the UK. She founded Hardwick Psychological Services in 2012, firstly as a solo psychologist, and then taking on her first team member in 2015. Over the past 12 years she has been committed to building an amazing team of psychologists who are highly qualified, experienced, and driven by genuine care and compassion for their clients. A group of psychologists that have an advanced level of expertise in evidence-based psychology and can be trusted to help clients make real change in their lives.
Clinically, Sascha has worked with clients across the age range, with a focus on adolescents and adults experiencing a variety of emotional challenges. She has a PhD in Clinical Psychology and Clinical Neuropsychology, training in a number of therapies including Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), Schema Therapy and others.
Sascha enjoys providing sensitive and responsive support to help her clients work through current issues to improve their overall well-being and quality of life. Her approach aims to be collaborative, non-judgemental, confidential, caring, and underpinned by an understanding of the client’s true values and goals.
Within the neuropsychological domain, she has experience providing assessment and intervention services for both adults and children within the fields of acquired brain injury, neurological disorders, ADHD, ASD and learning difficulties. Sascha has experience within the Medico-Legal domain, having written numerous reports for the courts both nationally and internationally. She has extensive experience as an Expert Witness, and has given testimony in the Magistrate Courts, County Courts and the High Court in London, UK.
Sascha has also published in peer-reviewed journals. She has been on professional committees in her areas of expertise. Sascha has also been supervising psychologists for the past 10 years, and has a real passion for training and supporting the next generation of practitioners.
Qualifications & Registrations:
- PhD Clinical Psychology and Clinical Neuropsychology – University of Queensland
- Bachelor of Arts – Double Major Psychology – University of Queensland
Bachelor of Arts – (Honours) – University of Queensland - General registration as a Psychologist with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
- Endorsements in Clinical Psychology and Clinical Neuropsychology (AHPRA)
- Member of the Australian Psychological Society (APS)
- Endorsed and Registered Supervisor (AHPRA)
Availability
Limited availability Tuesdays
Therapeutic approaches
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT)
- Eye-Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR)
- Schema Therapy
Client Age Range
+12 Adolescence to Adults
Areas of Treatment
- Supervision and training
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Trauma & PTSD
- Panic Disorder
- Phobias
- Health Anxiety
- Social anxiety and self-esteem
- Perfectionism
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Adjustment to live events
- Relationship problems
- Family conflict
- Stress and burnout
- Sleep problems
- Work or career-related issues
- Adjusting to a health diagnosis
- Difficulties with school and peers
- Social challenges
- Parenting
- Perinatal psychology
- ADHD
- Autism
- Identity issues
- FND
- Brain injury
- Neurological difficulties (e.g. stroke, MS, dementia, epilepsy etc)
- Post-concussion Syndrome
- Cognitive difficulties (e.g. memory, executive functioning, attention etc)
- Schizophrenia
- Personality challenges
Funding Bodies
- Medicare – MHCP/CDMP/EDMP
- NDIS – Self managed
- Private health insurance
- WorkCover
- NIISQ
- BUPA – Defense
Publications
Hardwick, S. A. (1998). Modulation of affective learning: An occasion for evaluative conditioning? In P. J. Broerse, D. Terry, & G. Bellas (Eds.), Abstracts of the fourth annual honours conference (pp. 24). Brisbane: School of Psychology.
Hardwick, S.A. (July 2003). Special focus on relationships, in Communiqué (Psychology Consultants, Newsletter).
Hardwick, S.A. (2003). Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, in Synapse (Brain Injury Association of Queensland, Quarterly Magazine).
Hardwick, S. A., & Lipp, O. V. (2000). Modulation of affective learning: An occasion for evaluative conditioning? Learning and Motivation, 31, 251-271.
Hardwick, S.A., & Lipp, O.V. (2004). The psychophysiology of anticipation. Psychophysiology, 41, S64.
Lipp, O.V., & Hardwick, S.A. (1999). Setting the occasion for hedonic shifts. Australian Journal of Psychology, 51, S34.
Lipp, O. V. & Hardwick, S. A. (2001). Performance feedback, warning stimulus modality, and task difficulty affect attentional blink startle modulation in a reaction time task. Psychophysiology, 38, S61.
Lipp, O.V. & Hardwick, S. A. (2003). Attentional blink modulation in a reaction time task: Performance feedback, warning stimulus modality, and task difficulty. Biological Psychology, 62, 115-132.
Lipp O.V., Hardwick, S.A., & Purkis, H.M. (2000). Affective learning is subject to occasion setting and not found in absence of contingency awareness. Psychophysiology, 37, S64.
Ownsworth, T., Fleming, J.M., & Hardwick, S.A. (2006). Symptom reporting and associations with compensation status, self-awareness, causal attributions, and emotional wellbeing following traumatic brain injury. Brain Impairment, 7, 95 – 106.