On Tuesday 8th November 2022 Dr Kellie Cassidy attended the inaugural Clinical Psychology Career Expo hosted by the WA Clinical Psychology Placement COnsortium. For those of you who are not aware, the consortium meets to arrange the clinical placements for masters students across the WA universities and includes Rebecca Anderson (Curtin), ALison Marsland (Murdoch), Lisa Saulsman (UWA), Raffia Salvo (ECU) and ICP’s own Helen Correia.

This expo is an opportunity for all Clinical Masters students to hear more about placement and employment opportunities available to them in the public and private sectors in WA.

The expo had 100 students registered with approximately 30 attending on the day. Others due to other commitments were to watch the recording at a later time.

The expo afforded the ICP the opportunity to raise its profile to a new cohort and discuss the benefits of students and registrarsof joining the ICP. We are hopeful that this may lead to increased members for us in the future.

In her presentation Kellie discussed the pros and cons to registrars undertaking their registrar program within a private practice setting. Specifically she explored points that registrars must consider to evaluate whether a particular workplace (public or private) is going to be able to offer them what they need to thrive in their career.

Positive feedback was received from the consortium members. Dr Rebecca Anderson from Curtin University commented that the presentation “gave a really balanced view on private practice and answered so many of the questions students come to us with about PP work.” She further noted that there is “lots of great work being done by ICP and we (the consortium) are grateful.”  Following on from this the ICP has been invited to provide information to all new clinical masters students in 2023.

Following on from his success, our next task is to set up some support groups for students and registrars in private practice which will be provided in 2023.