Vicki Williams, PhD is a psychologist who has a particular interest in the developmental origins of the links between stress and physical health. Special interests include the relationship between early life stress and fertility health, and the mediating role of stress in health behaviours such as smoking, alcohol use, and dietary choices. Her evidence-based therapeutic approach emphasises cognitive-behavioural, emotion-focused, mindfulness-based, and biofeedback therapies that together address the psychological and physical consequences of chronic stress.
Her professional associations and registrations include the following:
Registered with the Psychology Board of Australia (AHPRA)
Member of the Australian Psychological Society (MAPS)
Member of the American Psychosomatic Society
Member of the Society of Behavioral Medicine
MISSION
Knowledge, skills, resilience, health.
OBJECTIVES
Translate the latest stress research into strategies for better coping and optimal health.
Develop innovative and personalised stress interventions that are accessible to the wider community.
Contribute to ongoing research on the relationship between stress and physical health.
Vicki aims to build greater awareness of stress as a physical as well as a psychological problem, and of the need for integrative treatments that address the links between stress and health risks across the lifespan.
