Dr Jane Cocks
(She/Her)
Visiting Research Fellow
Organisation unit
College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences
School of Psychology
Location
Adelaide University
Working across two roles at Novita; half clinical practice, half leading a digital innovation project in allied health. Not currently taking on new student supervision.
Contact
Availability
My week is split between client‑facing clinical work and project commitments. Email is the best way to reach me, and I'll respond as clinical and project scheduling allows.
About me
I'm a psychologist, and at the heart of my work is a simple belief: everyone deserves support that truly sees them. My job is to help people understand themselves, work through what's hard, and build lives that feel meaningful, and to make sure the care they receive is warm, human and genuinely useful.
I split my week between clinical practice and leading digital innovation in allied health, and I'm at my best where those two worlds meet. At Novita I work with children, young people and adults living with disability, providing psychological therapy and assessment as part of a multidisciplinary team. Alongside this, as Psychology and Digital Project Lead, I guide how thoughtful, well‑chosen technology (including tools that ease the paperwork behind the scenes), is brought into everyday practice, so the focus can stay where it belongs: on the person, not the admin.
My career story has seen me work in many meaningful human contexts including trauma research, health promotion, suicide prevention, and a PhD that fused psychology with game design. That mix taught me to ask one question of any new tool or idea: does this genuinely help people flourish? It's still the question I lead with.
I split my week between clinical practice and leading digital innovation in allied health, and I'm at my best where those two worlds meet. At Novita I work with children, young people and adults living with disability, providing psychological therapy and assessment as part of a multidisciplinary team. Alongside this, as Psychology and Digital Project Lead, I guide how thoughtful, well‑chosen technology (including tools that ease the paperwork behind the scenes), is brought into everyday practice, so the focus can stay where it belongs: on the person, not the admin.
My career story has seen me work in many meaningful human contexts including trauma research, health promotion, suicide prevention, and a PhD that fused psychology with game design. That mix taught me to ask one question of any new tool or idea: does this genuinely help people flourish? It's still the question I lead with.
Last updated
on 18/07/2026
by Jane Cocks