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Professor Richard Hicks values the relationships he has formed with clients over many years and the opportunity to support them through the processes of change that psychological treatment offers.
Professor Richard Hicks is an experienced psychologist who helps people work through a wide range of mental health challenges.
He is a registered psychologist with practice endorsements in Counselling Psychology and Clinical Psychology. These two areas of practice dovetail into comprehensive psychological practice in the field of mental health assessment and treatment.
Mental health assessment and treatment is an area that Richard has engaged in comprehensively throughout his career. This has included, for example, private practice, university lecturing across undergrad and postgrad counselling and clinical psychology programs and supervision of provisional psychologists' clinical practice placements.
Richard draws on many years of experience to offer practical insights and strategies that help clients work through the complexities of their lives, and he brings compassion and long-standing dedication to his work.
But above all, Richard always feels privileged in the opportunity to engage clients in a way that can assist them in times of psychological distress and need.
One of Richard's passions is in the application of psychological assessments and strategies for organisational success. He has extensive knowledge and experience in the field, not only as a consultant and practitioner but also as an academic and researcher in the field.
With additional endorsement in Organisational Psychology Professor Richard Hicks brings decades of experience to this area. His research and insights can offer valuable perspectives on workplace dynamics and employee behaviour. Organisations can draw on his knowledge to understand how to foster positive work environments in which people are genuinely supported and invigorated to thrive.
Richard has a broad range of experience in the management and supervision of staff and students in extensive government and academic services over many years in Australia, Zambia, PNG, the UK, the US and through senior management and academic roles in universities.
This includes, for example, senior research and administrative positions in the public services of Zambia and Papua New Guinea and many decades in academic roles through the San Jose State University in California, the University of Queensland (UQ) in Brisbane, the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane and Bond University on the Gold Coast. These university positions combined academic and management roles, including Head of School and Associate Dean.
Richard has also engaged in research across the field of organisational psychology for many years to understand the factors that shape wellbeing and performance in organisations. He can work with executives and leaders individually or through more focused workshops and group work.
Richard’s knowledge of counselling, clinical and organisational psychology spans several decades of practice, university teaching and international conference presentations, and he shares it readily with teams and organisations.
Richard's early education was at the University College of Newcastle NSW, where he completed majors in Psychology and Mathematics. He also obtained training to be a secondary school teacher in Rhodesia, Africa, obtaining a University of London qualification.
His master's and doctoral theses in psychology were completed through the University of South Africa (while working in Southern Africa and then in Papua New Guinea).
Richard has a professional, management and teaching background in applied psychology, with particular areas of interest being organisational, health and developmental psychology. His early career was in cross-cultural psychology and psychometrics. Since then, Richard has held senior research and administrative positions in the public services of Zambia and Papua New Guinea. Most recently, Richard has focused his attention on academia, teaching at several universities including QUT, The University of Queensland, and the San Jose State University California.
Richard lives on the Gold Coast, Australia, and is a Professor of Psychology at Bond University, where he taught from 1998 and served four years as Head of School of the School of Psychology in the Faculty of Humanities.
Richard has published more than 200 articles, books, chapters, psychological tests, surveys, and classroom simulations and exercises. He has also presented nationally and internationally at numerous conferences. He has supervised honours, masters and doctoral theses across organisational, clinical, counselling, health and personality psychology.
Richard is currently a Fellow of the Australian and British Psychological Societies and of the Australian Institute of Management. He is also a member of the Clinical, Counselling, and Organisational Colleges of the Australian Psychological Society and a member of the US Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology.
Richard's academic activity has produced more than 200 articles, books, psychological tests, surveys, and classroom simulations and exercises over a 50-year period of research and practice in psychology, management and university teaching.
His academic achievements also include numerous conference presentations and published work of student honours, master's and doctoral theses in organisational psychology, clinical psychology, counselling psychology, health psychology and personality psychology.
Richard has extensive experience presenting and teaching internationally across conferences and university settings.
Ultimately, Richard enjoys sharing his knowledge and insights with other professionals on the practical benefits of psychology in the workplace and its positive influence on wellbeing, teamwork, culture and performance in the workplace.
