Further details on each Special Interest Group can be found below:
AAPi Northern Territory Group
A space for psychologists across the Northern Territory to connect, share resources, discuss local challenges, and support one another in professional practice.
AAPi Queensland Members
A space for psychologists across Queensland to connect, share resources, discuss local challenges, and support one another in professional practice.
AAPi Tasmanians
A space for psychologists across Tasmania to connect, share resources, discuss local challenges, and support one another in professional practice.
BIPOC Psychologists
A space for BIPOC psychologists interested in exploring their racialised experience.
Central Coast AAPi Members
A space for psychologists across the Central Coast to connect, share resources, discuss local challenges, and support one another in professional practice.
Christianity & Psychology Interest Group
A group for psychologists who are Christians and who work with Christian clients, who are looking to collaborate, support and inspire each other to work integratively to support clients and our own selves in this work.
Chronic Disease and Health Psychology Interest Group
This group provides a space for professionals to connect, collaborate, and share insights related to the psychological aspects of chronic disease and health.
Coaching Psychology
This Interest Group is for those working in or interested in coaching. It is a meeting place for ideas, experiences, learnings, theories, latest research and thinking and peer support/supervision.
Couples Therapy Interest Group
This interest group aims to unite therapists who share an enthusiasm for understanding and improving the quality of intimate relationships. Through peer support, networking, mentorship, training, and collaboration it hopes to promote enriched and evidence based conversations.
Creative Arts Therapy Interest and Support Group
A supportive space for psychologists and allied professionals interested in creative arts therapies to share ideas, resources, and practices that integrate art, music, drama, or movement into mental health care.
Cultural Responsiveness 'Yarning Circle'
A 'Yarning Circle' giving the opportunity for reflexivity and ongoing learning, and to share information, concerns or questions about working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients.
Digital Mental Health Interest Group
Join peers who are interested or working in digital mental health. Share ideas, resources, challenges and solutions!
Diverse Sexes, Sexualities and Genders (Allies Welcome)
This is a group for practitioners who are both within the LGBTAIQ+ community and those who are allies working within the space. This is a forum for sharing of resources, practice tips, strategies, and challenges.
EcoPsychology Interest Group
This Interest Group is for those working in or interested in a diverse range of fields associated with ecopsychology, ecotherapy, outdoor / nature based therapies, animal assisted therapies, natural systems and systems thinking, and the like. It is a meeting place for ideas, experiences, learnings, theories, latest research and thinking and peer support. This group is interested in, but does not exclusively focus on, the nexus of climate change and mental health, environmental psychology and other aligned approaches.
EMDR Therapy
A dedicated forum for EMDR-trained therapists to exchange ideas, offer peer support, and share referral opportunities.
Gut-Brain Interest Group
A group for those exploring the gut-brain connection and the impact of gut health on psychological wellbeing, treatment, and research.
IFS Focused Peer Supervision Group
A peer supervision group dedicated to exploring and applying the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model in clinical practice.
Menopause/Perimenopause Interest Group
This group is for psychologists who may be working with women (and their families) during the perimenopausal and/or menopausal stage of their lives and the impact it is having on them and those around them. It's also applicable for psychologists who are also personally navigating this stage and the challenges this presents professionally.
NDIS Interest Group
The purpose of this group is to share resources, provide professional development opportunities, peer-to-peer consultation and networking for Psychologists who are working in the NDIS space.
Neurodiversity Interest Group
The aim of this group is to provide education for group members around the Neurodiversity Affirming Framework, and assist members to support clients and families. This group also provides a lobbying function for Australia.
Occupational Health Psychology Interest Group
This group focuses on Occupational Health Psychology, Injury Management, and Rehabilitation - an interdisciplinary field addressing worker health and safety, including the impact of occupational stressors, psychosocial risks, mistreatment, unemployment, and workplace interventions that support mental health, wellbeing, and recovery.
Older Adults interest group/peer supervision
An interest group for working with older adults as well as peer supervision group particularly focussed on working with older adults.
Organisational Psychology Group
A space for professionals working in Organisational Psychology, including areas such as HR, Learning & Development, business consulting, occupational health and safety, and workplace wellbeing.
Pain management
A collaborative space for practitioners, supervisors, researchers, students, people with lived experience, and supporters to share resources and consolidate efforts toward effective, evidence-based interventions that improve quality of life for those living with chronic pain.
Peer Consultation Group for Psychologists Running/Developing Online Training
A peer consultation group for psychologists developing or running online training / courses for clients, community groups or other professionals.
Peer Supervision Group - Supervision of Supervision
An ongoing online peer supervision group focused on 'supervision of supervision' for those of us providing board-approved (or other) supervision.
Peer-led support for those facing Ahpra complaints
This peer-run support group provides informal, compassionate support for psychologists facing Ahpra or state board complaints (HCCC, HSC, HCSCC, HCC, MHCC, HaDSCO), notifications, or registration conditions.
Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Virtual Peer Support Group
A welcoming virtual peer support group for psychologists working in perinatal and infant mental health to connect, share resources, and collaborate on treatment, prevention, research, and training across Australia.
Personality Disorders
This group is to share ideas and training, collaboration, and support for working with people with personality disorders.
Practice Management Support Forum
This is a group for practice managers and owners to discuss issues around the management of their business.
Provisional and Early Career Psychologist Group
A space for provisional and early career psychologists to connect, share support, and navigate the early stages of their professional journey.
Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy Interest Group
This group aims to support peer education on psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy and complementary treatments, while staying up to date with current research in Australia and internationally.
Psychoanalytically Oriented Psychology
Peer supervision and interest group for psychodynamically or psychoanalytically orientated psychologists.
Psychoeducational assessment peer supervision
Psychoeducational assessment peer supervision group with like-minded practitioners with an interest in SLDs, academic giftedness, ADHD, intellectual disability, cognitive ability and academic achievement.
Psychologists as Expert Witnesses
This is a group for those with interest in discussing particularly the experiences of psychologists when needing to appear in court, subpoenas, case notes when under scrutiny from legal perspectives, and anyone with a special interest in forensic aspects of psychology.
Psychologists in Schools Interest Group
This interest group is for psychologists who are directly involved in working in schools or interested in this area.
Psychology & (Contemporary) Buddhism Interest Group
A collaboratively facilitated group focusing on the psychological applications of Buddhist approaches - especially mindfulness and the critical accompanying use of compassion and self compassion, to help understand and address the interface of conscious and unconscious levels of self.
Psychology and AI
A group for psychologists interested in exploring Artificial Intelligence and engaging in peer supervision.
Psychology and Yoga
This group is designed around all things at the intersection of psychology and yoga - for yoga teachers and just those who may also be interested in the space.
Psychotherapy and Poetry Reading Group
A reading group focused on psychotherapy and poetry, aiming to support members’ professional development with readings chosen collaboratively.
Reflexivity and Reflection in Psychological Practice Interest Group
An interest group focusing on peer supervision and sharing understandings about best practice for reflexive and reflective skills building.
Retirement Interest Group
This interest group supports psychologists contemplating or recently in retirement by sharing resources, offering guidance on transitioning, exploring ongoing professional engagement, and fostering community connection.
Rural Practitioners Peer Supervision
A supportive space for rural and regional practitioners to connect, share case studies, learn collaboratively, and enhance meaningful, multifaceted care for their communities.
South Australian Psychologists
A space for psychologists across Southern Australia to connect, share resources, discuss local challenges, and support one another in professional practice.
Spirituality and Psychology Interest Group
This Interest Group unites psychologists interested in spirituality, providing a safe space to explore its intersection with psychology, share ideas, and develop competencies for respectfully addressing clients’ spiritual beliefs.
Sport and Exercise Psychology
This group is concerned with Sport & Exercise psychology. It is a meeting place for ideas, experiences, learnings, theories, latest research and thinking and peer support/supervision.
Transpersonal Psychology Interest Group
Transpersonal psychology makes space for the big questions in life to be asked, studied and answered. From theory to research, and from organizational psychology to individual psychotherapeutic practice, a transpersonal bent incorporates the notion of the 'Self and'. More than just the self or a disperate collection of selves. And more than just a social self with all it's construction.
Trauma Interest Group
This is an interest group focusing on the treatment of Trauma. It is a meeting place for those working with Trauma as well as a space for peer support, supervision and identifying the care needs of those working in this space.
Victorian Psychologists
This group is a meeting place for all psychologists based in Victoria. It is a forum for sharing information, resources, peer connection and for organising peer supervision groups.
Western Australian AAPi Psychologists
A space for psychologists across Western Australia to connect, share resources, discuss local challenges, and support one another in professional practice.
Working with Children - Peer Supervision Group
A peer supervision group dedicated to supporting clinicians working with children and adolescents.
Working With Eating Disorders - Interest Group
A special interest group for professionals focused on working with clients experiencing eating disorders.
Working With Veterans Interest Group
This is an interest group for people who are working with Veterans in order to provide peer to peer support and information sharing.