Dr Joe Tighe

Dr Joe Tighe is a Senior Psychologist with international experience in the private, public and voluntary sectors. He specialises in innovation, psychological interventions, group work, clinical consultancy, men’s health, training and resource production. In private practice Joe takes a strengths based and values led approach to psychological wellbeing.

He obtained his psychology degree in the UK in 2006 and completed his PhD at the University of New South Wales/Black Dog Institute. Joe’s doctoral research involved  the world’s first trial of the Black Dog Institute’s ibobbly app for suicide prevention. Joe was awarded a postgraduate scholarship to research the effectiveness of this mobile technology.

Joe also co-founded and managed the multiple award winning Alive & Kicking Goals! suicide prevention project in 2008, in Broome, Western Australia. Under his guidance the project received  the Australian Medical Association’s leading primary healthcare award  in 2014.