Executive Team
Under the guidance of our Director Tarnya Davis, NewPsych’s executive team ensures we deliver consistently high-quality, proactive and responsive services to everyone we work with, in line with our mission of helping people achieve meaningful change.
In addition to our executive team, psychologists and psychiatrists, our large and skilled administrative team are passionate about helping everyone who comes to NewPsych.
With almost 30 years’ clinical experience, Tarnya has been the sole director of NewPsych for over 25 years. During this time, NewPsych has supported 35,000 clients and been chosen by over 100 businesses to support their combined 50,000 employees.
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From her experience supporting people and businesses during times of trauma (including sudden and unexpected death), Tarnya developed the industry best practice critical response model PRIMES (prevention, responsive intervention, multi-layer enduring support), first presented at NSW Mining’s HSEC conference.
She leads a large team of clinicians across Australia who are committed to evidence-based best practice interventions for individuals, teams and businesses. Tarnya is an author and expert speaker, consulting with media and industry leaders on mental health and wellbeing.
Tarnya Davis
Clinical Director &
Principal Clinical and Forensic Psychologist
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Kellen Evans
General Manager
Kellen brings more than 20 years’ senior leadership experience spanning strategy, operations and marketing to her role at NewPsych. She aligns the delivery of strategy and operations with our exceptional service delivery across our clients, staff, clinicians, EAP customer organisations, our strategic partners and the community.
Throughout her career, Kellen has built and developed effective teams, delivered training and continuous improvement processes, and managed executive stakeholder relationships across different cross-cultural settings.
Gerard ensures our organisational strategies and infrastructure align consistently with our vision: to meet and exceed the support needs of all of the people we come into contact with, in a timely manner and to an exceptionally high standard. We demonstrate our organisational values of empathy, equity, respect and compassion in all of our interactions with clients, staff, clinicians, EAP partner organisations and the broader community.
Gerard has experience working within private, government and not-for-profit sectors, as well as with education and training institutions. He is a psychologist with 10+ years clinical experience, with a special interest in the factors nurturing high levels of organisational, vocational, sporting and interpersonal effectiveness.
Gerard Devine
Strategy & Infrastructure
& Psychologist
Diane has a background in human resources, organisational development and psychology. She supports organisations and other external agencies to access expert psychological and workplace services from NewPsych.
As External Relations Manager, Diane collaborates with NewPsych’s clinical team to coordinate, develop and deliver EAP services to the businesses we support across Australia.
Diane is also a Psychologist and has a Master of Professional Psychology.
Diane Bunch
External Relations Manager
& Psychologist
With a background in community mental health and experience in leadership and human resource development, Julia supports organisations and other external agencies to access expert psychological and workplace services from NewPsych.
She collaborates with NewPsych’s clinical team to coordinate, develop and deliver EAP services to the businesses we support across Australia.
Julia is a Provisional Psychologist and has a Master of Business Psychology, as well as professional membership with the Australian Human Resources Institute.
Julia Hannaford
External Relations Manager & Provisional Psychologist
Alex works closely and collaboratively to support the continued growth of NewPsych’s EAP and Workplace Services. He ensures the seamless provision of EAP services for our clients and drives opportunities for us to develop our offerings further.
With over 15 years’ experience in industrial and mining service management roles and real-life experience of the impacts of psychosocial hazards upon employee health, Alex assists with managing EAP contracts, onboarding new EAP partner organisations, and coordinating various commercial aspects of our EAP services. Alex completed his psychology studies in 2024 and is now deepening his study in organisational psychology.
Alex Madigan
EAP Coordinator
Kate is a registered psychologist with over 15 years' experience in supporting workplaces with tricky employee situations, including mediation, leader support and wellness for work. Alongside our team of psychologists and organisational psychologists, she assists in assessing challenges and collaboratively developing best-practice workplace solutions.
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Kate's experience extends through organisational psychology frameworks, conflict resolution and critical incident supports, along with person-centred clinical intervention. Kate also has extensive experience in workplace health, including psychosocial health and safety planning and risk assessment.
Kate Maher
Corporate Clinical Consultant & Psychologist
With more than 20 years’ experience working as a psychologist supporting people experiencing a broad range of life challenges, Matt supports our clinical team to be the best they can be. This includes brainstorming best practice and innovative ways to support their clients, ensuring they are always developing their skills and ideas and are across the latest research and practice, and also especially making sure they taking care of themselves and their own wellbeing.
Matt works closely with the executive team to attract the right clinicians whose values match those of NewPsych. He supports the people and organisations referring to NewPsych to ensure the right match of client and clinician and makes a strong clinical contribution to all our wellbeing interventions including critical incident response as well as training and education on all things to do with people.
Matt Jepsen
Clinical Team Leader & Pychologist
Alex leads the continued growth of our clinical services and is responsible for ensuring that our large Client Services team provides an exceptional service experience to every single person who has contact with NewPsych.
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Alex ensures that our clients' and our ever-growing team of clinicians' needs are met promptly, effectively and to an exceptionally high standard. Alex also play's a vital role in ensuring that NewPsych demonstrates our organisational values in all of our interactions with clients, staff and clinicians, business relationships and the broader community.
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Alex is a senior administrator overseeing the operational aspects of NewPsych’s clinical practice. She brings her expertise in business support, project management and system integration to drive efficiencies in the support we offer our clients and our team. ​
Alex Sager
Clinical Services Team Leader
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