Ms Lynette Dickinson

Lynette Dickinson is a mature-aged and neurodiverse Provisional Psychologist and mother of three adult children, on the edge of general registration. Lynette began her career as a science journalist, moved into science and maths tutoring while parenting, secondary science/maths teaching, and yoga and meditation teacher/therapist, before moving into her childhood dream career of becoming a psychologist.
Disability and Neurodiversity have been major themes throughout Lynette’s life, with a diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis in 2004, focussing teaching on students experiencing learning difficulties, indigenous students, and neurodivergent students, and a late personal diagnosis of Autism and ADHD.
Throughout her career Lynette has consistently held diversity, compassion, and respect at the centre of her interactions, regardless of the identity of the person(s) she is working with or the model of interaction.
Lynette has published a book about her journey with MS, ‘A Journey to Peace through Yoga’, written blogs, released CDs of mediations and relaxations. Lynette has also offered yoga and meditation therapy and classes for people with mental and physical disabilities, children, and adolescents.
Lynette has presented at Yoga Therapy Conferences and in Yoga and Meditation training courses, and most recently, presented a student poster at the first International Psychedelics Conference in Australia.
In her 59th year of life Lynette will complete her Psychology Internship, becoming a generally registered Psychologist.
Lynette brings her whole experience into the therapy room, whether on the floor making slime and playing games or sitting on my office chair engaging in a therapeutic conversation.
Lynette believes diverse representation at all levels of education, healthcare, public administration, and politics, is essential to the provision of inclusive services to the whole population, and strives to embody this principle in all of her interactions.