Dr Leah Brennan
Significant Contribution to Rural and Remote Communities

Award type: Showcase

Professor Leah Brennan is a rurally-based clinical, health, educational and developmental psychologist and a Professor in Psychology at La Trobe University Albury-Wodonga Campus. Leah’s education, clinical and research work focuses on supporting the availability of evidence-based practice in the community, specifically in rural communities.

Leah has coordinated La Trobe University’s Masters of Professional Psychology which specifically targets the training of psychologists to work in rural and remote settings. Supporting this program has involved developing partnerships with rural services, and supporting rural psychologists to become board approved supervisors, to enable rural placements. Her research includes an exploration of telehealth best-practice and understanding barriers and facilitators of effective use of telehealth psychology, and exploration of models of dissemination to support availability of evidence-based eating disorder interventions in rural communities. Leah also has a small private psychology practice, Yarrawonga-Mulwala Psychology, that provides a range of psychological services to the local community.

This has involved developing novel ways to support the development and engagement of local psychologists, and engaging a broader range of psychologists to support local needs. Leah is driven by a belief that the quality of psychological care available should not be determined by postcode, and she is committed to continuing to do all she can to facilitate access to best available psychological services in rural communities.

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