Joanne Lawrence-Bourne is a Clinical Psychologist in Orange, NSW. Joanne has a 20-year background in midwifery and reproductive counselling and understands the broad range of reproductive-related mental health needs for all adults. The reproductive journey involves navigating pregnancy childbirth and parenting, infertility concerns and options, complications, grief and loss, partner’s mental health and support, and relationship challenges. Joanne offers face-to-face psychological support in a safe and non-clinical environment. She also offers telehealth. Wherever we live, finding support, our village, is important in any format to helps us not to feel alone.
Joanne also understands rural life. Her childhood was spent on a property in Central West NSW. She then worked in Sydney, Canberra, Southern Highlands NSW, Torres Straits and Darwin, in private and public health. She returned to Orange 19 years ago with her husband and daughter, worked as a Research Associate for the Rural and Remote Mental Health, tutored obstetric emergencies with medical students at the USYD Orange campus School of Rural Health, and continues to run her 20-year private practice at BOURNE PSYCHOLOGY (formally Natal Instincts).
Joanne has a Master of Midwifery, Honours Degree in Psychology, a Master of Clinical Psychology, and a PhD. Her Midwifery thesis involved ‘normal anxiety’ for new parents, and her Psychology Honours research and PhD focussed on the experience of male childlessness.
Results of her research have been presented at the 50th Australian Psychological Society (APS) conference, Society for Reproductive and Infant Psychology (SRIP) conference in the UK, and at the 21st Congress of Nordic Midwifery conference in Iceland. Joanne has also contributed to podcast conversations regarding the experience of childlessness for women and men in the UK, men’s mental health forums in Australia, working with the Gidget Foundation (perinatal mental health) and closer to home providing additional psychological support for women and couples undergoing fertility treatments with locally-based national fertility clinics, and supporting community organisations such as the Central West Mums.
With over 20 years of working in the reproductive space Joanne has never lost interest in what Joanne believes to be one of the most fundamental topics in human society; the biopsychosocial (physical, psychological and social) expectations and implications surrounding the experience of having (or not having) children.
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