Jessica Wang, clinical psychology registrar

Jessica is a Clinical Psychology Registrar with experience in treating a diverse range of issues for children, adolescents, young adults, and families across hospital, outpatient, and community clinic settings.

Jessica works with clients with a range of difficulties, including anxiety, low mood, difficulties managing emotions, behavioural concerns, attention difficulties (ADHD), autism, school avoidance, academic stress and perfectionism, family relationship challenges, specific phobias, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), stress and adjustment issues, and early childhood developmental and emotional needs. Jessica has specialist skills in supporting children with emotion regulation challenges. She also enjoys working with children and families from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

Providing a compassionate, safe, and collaborative therapeutic environment is central to Jessica’s work. Jessica’s therapeutic style is warm and authentic, and she tailors interventions to each client’s developmental needs, personal goals, values and cultural context, working closely with families, schools, and other support systems.

Jessica uses Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), attachment-informed approaches, and family systems principles to develop individualised, evidence-based interventions. She also has experience providing play-based and attachment-focused work with young children and their caregivers.

Jessica is skilled in psychometric assessment, including assessment of attentional difficulties (e.g. ADHD), intellectual ability, autism, and learning difficulties.

When not working at Approach Psychology, Jessica is completing a PhD at the University of New South Wales, where she is developing a novel digital intervention for adolescents with anxiety in partnership with the Black Dog Institute.