Jessica Hack

She/Her

Psychologist

Master of Professional Psychology

Areas of practice:

  • Mood disorders including depressive disorders and bipolar affective disorders

  • Anxiety disorders

  • Psychotic disorders

  • Adjustment disorders and difficult life stages

  • Traumatic experience and adverse life events

  • Difficulties managing emotion

  • Conflict in relationships and problematic patterns of communication

  • Issues with self-worth

Jessica is a registered psychologist with experience across various settings, including private practice, public mental health, emergency departments, and crisis teams. She holds a Master of Professional Psychology and works with adults only. When seeing Jessica you can expect a warm, genuine clinician who makes you feel heard. Whether you are looking for support during a challenging time or wish to gain a deeper understanding of self-defeating interpersonal or coping patterns, she will provide you with a space to reflect and learn about yourself. Jessica is down to earth and likes to use humour in therapy while maintaining a space that is empathetic and non-judgemental. She is passionate about empowering her clients, helping them build resilience, supporting their values and strengths, and working on goal achievement.

Jessica primarily draws on evidence-based therapeutic approaches such as Schema Therapy (ST), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), and Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR). She aims to teach you psychological strategies to manage painful and uncomfortable emotions and memories, disengage from unhelpful beliefs about yourself and others, improve your self-worth, and reaffirm your purpose and direction.  

Jessica is also a board-approved supervisor and passionate about supporting provisional psychologists through their internships. Additionally, she offers individual and group clinical supervision for continuing professional development with an interest in suicide risk assessment, safety planning, acute mental health, and a range of interventions.