Associate ProfessorKaye Frankcom

Kaye Frankcom

Associate Professor of Psychology (Deakin University)

GAICD, B.A, B.S.W, Grad Dip. Counselling. Psych., Master Clinical Psychology, Master of Science in Medicine (Pain Management)

Kaye is a highly accomplished businesswoman, and leader in the health sector. She is an endorsed clinical and counselling psychologist, consultant and business coach to psychologists, in-demand speaker and trainer and has held national roles in psychology regulation and professional standards. She built a successful group psychology practice in Williamstown, Victoria which she sold in 2018. Her leadership resume includes Deputy Mayor of a country city council, NED in the Primary Care and Social Welfare sectors, first female President of the Psychologists Board of Victoria, co-founder of the first Centre against Sexual Assault established outside Melbourne over 30 years ago. She was appointed to the first Psychology Board of Australia and was instrumental in the process of establishing national standards for the psychology profession. More recently, she has been appointed to Clinical Governance roles in Primary Health Networks, has undertaken reviews of various private practice and NFP agencies and mentored and coached psychology practice directors nationally. She is a Board approved supervisor and was the foundational trainer for the supervisor training program at the APS.

She is the lead author of Fit for Practice: Everything you wanted to know about starting your own psychology practice in Australia but were afraid to ask (co-authors Professor Bruce Stevens and Dr Phil Watts. Published November 2016) and more recently Creating Impact: The four pillars of private psychology practice (published 2022, co-authored with Nathan Castle, Daryl Chow, Aaron Frost and RaeLynn Alvarez Wicklein).

She is an Associate Professor of Psychology, Deakin University and is assisting in the devising of new Master level clinical psychology training programs for registered psychologists.