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Kaye Frankcom
Kaye Frankcom is a highly accomplished psychologist, consultant, business coach, speaker and trainer, with extensive experience across psychology regulation, professional standards, clinical governance and private practice leadership. She is an endorsed clinical and counselling psychologist, Board approved supervisor, Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society, and former Associate Professor of Psychology at Deakin University.
Kaye Frankcom is an endorsed clinical and counselling psychologist, consultant and business coach to psychologists. She has held national roles in psychology regulation and professional standards, including as the first female President of the Psychologists Board of Victoria and as a member of the first Psychology Board of Australia, where she contributed to the development of national standards for the psychology profession.
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Kaye built a successful group psychology practice in Williamstown, Victoria, which she sold in 2018. Her wider leadership experience includes clinical governance roles in Primary Health Networks, non-executive director roles across primary care and social welfare, and mentoring psychology practice directors nationally. She is also a Board approved supervisor and was the foundational trainer for the APS supervisor training program.
She is the lead author of Fit for Practice: Everything you wanted to know about starting your own psychology practice in Australia but were afraid to ask and co-author of Creating Impact: The four pillars of private psychology practice.
Fit to Practice: Competence, Conduct, and Care
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An integrated approach to ethical and sustainable psychological practice.
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This 12-hour professional development workshop examines how the Code of Conduct and Professional Competencies intersect with contemporary expectations of professional practice, including risk management, client-centred care, cultural responsiveness, reflective practice and ongoing competence development.
This workshop is suitable for psychologists working across private practice, public health, community services, education and leadership roles who want to strengthen their understanding of the reforms and apply them in a practical, clinically relevant way.
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It is especially relevant for psychologists who want to build confidence around ethical decision-making, professional judgement, risk management, reflective practice, supervision, practitioner wellbeing and sustainable long-term practice.
Participants will explore the key changes introduced by the new Code of Conduct and Professional Competencies, and how these expectations translate into everyday clinical decision-making. The program will cover ethical challenges, professional boundaries, reflective practice, supervision, competence development and risk management.
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The workshop also recognises that high-quality psychological practice depends on the wellbeing of the practitioner. Participants will explore evidence-informed approaches to self-care, burnout prevention, compassion fatigue, professional drift and maintaining effectiveness in demanding clinical environments.
This workshop brings together the regulatory, ethical and human sides of psychological practice. It supports psychologists to understand current professional expectations while also building the systems, habits and reflective practices needed to sustain safe, effective and meaningful work over time.
Philipa Thornton
Philipa Thornton is a highly respected psychologist, relationship specialist, clinical supervisor, and President of Resource Therapy International, with more than 30 years of experience working across trauma, attachment injury, and relationship distress. Known for her warm, grounded, and practical style, she is recognised for translating complex psychological and neurobiological concepts into clear, structured frameworks that clinicians can apply in real-world practice. Her work bridges deep trauma expertise with practical skills that therapists can take directly into the therapy room.
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Philipa Thornton is a psychologist, relationship specialist, clinical supervisor, and President of Resource Therapy International. With more than 30 years of experience, her career has included senior roles across organisations such as NSW Health, Victims Services, The Langton Centre, Relationships Australia, and the William Booth Institute. She continues to support both individuals and couples through counselling, training, and professional supervision.
At CPD on the Sea, Philipa will present Structured Trauma Intervention: A Diagnostic and Action Based Framework for Parts Work. This workshop is designed to help clinicians move beyond insight alone and into a structured, action-based framework for identifying activated trauma parts and responding in a way that is safe, grounded, and effective.
This training is designed for psychologists, counsellors, psychotherapists, mental health clinicians, and therapists working with complex trauma and attachment injury. It is especially relevant for practitioners seeking greater clarity, confidence, and precision when trauma is present in the therapy room.
Participants will deepen their understanding of how trauma can be encoded within specific personality parts and learn how to assess which trauma-holding part is activated in session. The workshop explores how to work with fear-based, rejection-based, protective, and conflicted parts, while reducing dissociation and emotional flooding and maintaining therapeutic containment.
Philipa is especially known for helping practitioners move beyond theory into confident, structured intervention that is both trauma-informed and clinically precise. With an emphasis on compassion, containment, and action-based treatment steps, this workshop offers a practical roadmap for therapists seeking to strengthen both intervention confidence and therapeutic precision.
