Our Team
Janette Gale, BA (Psych Hons), MCom, MAPS
Janette Gale is a Health Psychologist with extensive experience in using Health Coaching techniques in her work with individuals and groups to enhance their health and manage chronic health conditions. She has worked with many health organisations to train their staff and integrate health coaching into organisational systems. Janette is an Australian leading authority in Health Coaching principles and professional practice. She is the primary developer of the HCA Health Coaching Model and is the founder and Director of Health Coaching Australia. She is currently on the National Executive Committee of Australian Psychological Society’s College of Health Psychologists.
Janette co-developed Australia’s first Health Coaching professional development program for health professionals at Deakin University, Victoria. She has previously lectured in Consumer Behaviour, Marketing and Research Methods at the University of Sydney.
In her private psychological practice Janette received referrals for Health Coaching patients in weight-management, healthy lifestyle change and the management of chronic health conditions such as obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
As an independent practitioner and consultant, Janette has designed and facilitated a number of innovative community-based, government & industry funded health promotion and education programs targeting lifestyle change for families and adults. These programs contain Health Coaching components. View a description and outcomes of the Kangaroo Valley Healthy Community Project funded by the Rural Chronic Disease Initiative, Department of Health and Ageing. Health Coaching Australia, in conjunction with the Kangaroo Valley Lions Club and the Shoalhaven City Council, received State and National level Heart Foundation Kellogg Local Government Awards in 2004 for this project, in the category of Project by a Community Organisation .
Lisa Densley, BSc (Psych Hons), MClinPsych, MAPS
Lisa Densley is a Clinical and Health Psychologist and a Senior Facilitator and training developer for Health Coaching Australia. Her own private psychological practice incorporates both Clinical work and Health Coaching roles. She has previously had extensive experience using Health Coaching within a Workers Compensation context for individuals requiring pain management and adjustment to disability counselling. Health Coaching for chronic condition self-management, under the Enhanced Primary Care Medicare program, is a key part of her current practice.
Rebecca McPhee, BNutr.Diet (Hons), APD
Rebecca McPhee is an Accredited Practicing Dietitian and Primary Facilitator for Health Coaching Australia. . She has been involved in a variety of innovative community based lifestyle programs targeting obesity and is NSW chairperson for Nutrition Australia. Rebecca has also worked in England as an Obesity Specialist Dietitian for the NHS and was the representative for the Obesity Strategy Committee for Westminster. Rebecca currently runs a successful dietetics private practice where she specialises in assisting patients to self-manage diabetes, weight issues and cardiovascular disease. She uses health coaching techniques within her practice to achieve tailor made lifestyle and dietetic solutions for individuals.
