Helen-May Johnston

Conduct psychological and risk assessments and provide individual and group psychotherapy to remanded individuals, informing rehabilitation and parole planning while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to support reintegration.

Managed end-to-end digital mental health projects, coordinating content, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to deliver articles, campaigns, webinars and online courses while optimizing engagement via performance metrics.

Completed rotations across substance use, acute inpatient and outpatient services delivering assessments, individual and group interventions, and crisis management while developing skills in addiction care and motivational interviewing.

Designed and delivered online courses and live workshops for corporate clients on mental health and wellbeing, creating bespoke psychoeducational programs and iterating content based on participant outcomes.

Undertook forensic and acute inpatient rotations providing assessments, risk evaluations, therapeutic interventions and primary healthcare outreach while strengthening forensic report writing and multidisciplinary case management skills.

Provided assessments, psychotherapy and interventions across forensic, child & adolescent, outpatient and primary care settings, producing court-related reports and delivering community-based mental health services.

Recruited participants and facilitated psychoeducational groups for Grade 8 learners in low-income communities, meeting research aims and supporting data collection for program evaluation.

Lectured research methodology, coordinated module delivery and assessments, and ensured academic standards for undergraduate coursework.

Designed and facilitated empowerment and resilience group sessions for women survivors of abuse, delivering trauma-informed psychoeducation and maintaining ethical confidentiality standards.

Recruited and screened research participants, conducted interviews, transcribed and coded qualitative data and maintained datasets in line with ethical protocols.

Completed a Master of Social Science in Clinical Psychology with training in assessment and evidence-based therapeutic modalities.

Completed a Bachelor of Arts Honours in Psychology focusing on psychological assessment, interventions, and research methods.

Completed an honours-level degree in Music with coursework and practical training in music performance and theory.