J.M Lynch

Biography

Dr Johanna Lynch PhD MBBS FRACGP Grad Cert (Grief and Loss) is a General Practitioner who researches whole person care and mentors, trains and supervises medical students, GPs, and multidisciplinary mental health clinicians. She advocates for whole person care in national and international healthcare policy in her role as President of the Australian Society for Psychological Medicine. She also consults on national domestic and family violence policy and training, rural mental health provision, and national mental health research. She has a post graduate training in grief and loss and ongoing professional education in dissociation, trauma and attachment.She was founding director of Integrate Place, a multidisciplinary mental wellness centre which had a focus on sensorimotor approaches to recovery from childhood trauma. She completed her PhD in whole person approaches to distress in primary care in September 2019 and published the findings in a book: A whole person approach to wellbeing: Building sense of safety (2021) Routledge. Her research interests include transdisciplinary methodology, generalism, trauma-informed approaches to care, and integrative understanding of the breadth and depth of whole person care. She is fascinated about the interweaving of experience and biology and the sophisticated clinical task of seeing the parts as well as the whole. She is a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners , Fellow and President of the Australian Society of Psychological Medicine, and Member of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, the Australian Association of Academic Primary Care and North American Primary Care Research Group