About Us
About Us
Meet the Mental Health OT & Social Work team in Brisbane
We believe mental health care should focus on more than symptom management alone.
Meaningful support involves helping people function, participate, and build lives that feel sustainable, manageable, and meaningful.
When people are struggling, the impact is often felt across many areas of everyday life including relationships, work, study, self-care, and community participation. People can be left feeling a loss of identity and confidence and a decrease in motivation.
At With Purpose Mental Health, we recognise that recovery looks different for everyone. We take the time to understand each person’s unique experiences, strengths, challenges, environment, and daily life, recognising that all these factors can influence mental health and wellbeing.
Our work is grounded in the understanding that people are more likely to thrive when they have the right support, opportunities, environments, and understanding around them.
Our goal is to help people create lives that feel more manageable, meaningful, and sustainable over time.
Our approach
Our work is practical, person-centred, and recovery-oriented.
We focus on helping people navigate everyday life in ways that feel meaningful, manageable, and sustainable.
This includes, but is not limited to:
- daily routines and structure
- emotion regulation
- executive functioning
- social connection and relationships
- confidence and identity
- sensory and nervous system regulation
- community participation
- work and study capacity
- independent living skills
- sustainable wellbeing
We recognise that mental health recovery is rarely linear, and there is no one-size-fits-all approach.
We take the time to understand each person’s strengths, barriers, goals, and lived experience.
Our clinicians use evidence-based and recovery-oriented approaches tailored to each individual’s needs, goals, strengths, and circumstances.
Our clinicians draw from evidence-based approaches including trauma-informed practice, sensory modulation, CBT, ACT, DBT-informed strategies, motivational interviewing, and recovery-oriented care.
Above all, we aim to provide support that is person-centred, respectful, and grounded in meaningful everyday life.
Who we are
Aaron Tysoe
Bachelor of Occupational Therapy (Hons)
Director & Mental Health Occupational Therapist - Endorsed Better Access to Mental Health (BAMH)
Aaron is a Senior Mental Health Occupational Therapist and the founder of With Purpose Mental Health.
He has experience working across community mental health, psychosocial recovery, neurodivergence, and complex mental health presentations, with a strong focus on supporting adults to improve everyday functioning, wellbeing, and quality of life.
Aaron’s approach is grounded, practical, and recovery-oriented. He works collaboratively with individuals to better understand how mental health, nervous system regulation, environment, routines, and life demands impact daily functioning and participation. He has particular interest in adult mental health, neurodivergence, emotion regulation, burnout, sensory processing, and functional recovery.
Aaron is passionate about creating a practice culture that values authenticity, clinical integrity, flexibility, and person-centred care.
Outside of work, Aaron enjoys travel, music, nature, and spending time with his family.
Samantha Bicker
Bachelor of Occupational Therapy (Hons)
Senior Mental Health Occupational Therapist - Endorsed Better Access to Mental Health (BAMH)
Samantha is a Senior Mental Health Occupational Therapist with more than 25 years experience across clinical, operational, and leadership roles within mental health services. She has worked across complex mental health settings supporting individuals experiencing trauma, psychosocial complexity, emotional dysregulation, neurodivergence, and severe mental illness.
Samantha’s approach is thoughtful, trauma-informed, and deeply person-centred. She values creating psychologically safe therapeutic relationships and supporting people to rebuild identity, confidence, emotional regulation, and meaningful participation in everyday life. Her clinical approach integrates occupational therapy with evidence-based psychological and sensory approaches tailored to the individual.
Outside of work, Samantha values time in nature, reflection, creativity, and connection with family and community.
Clare Barrett
Bachelor of Occupational Therapy
Senior Mental Health Occupational Therapist
Clare is a Senior Mental Health Occupational Therapist with over 15 years of experience working across forensic mental health, homelessness services, community mental health, and psychosocial rehabilitation settings.
Clare is known for her calm, compassionate, and down-to-earth approach. She works collaboratively with individuals to support emotional wellbeing, daily functioning, confidence, and engagement in meaningful activities and relationships.
Her clinical interests include sensory modulation, mindfulness, trauma-informed recovery and compassion-focused therapies.
Outside of work, Clare enjoys music, spending time outdoors, and being with her family.
Winsome Carnegie
Bachelor of Occupational Therapy (Hons)
Occupational Therapist
Winsome is an Occupational Therapist with experience across aged care, home modifications, equipment prescription, functional assessment, and community-based practice.
She works with adults experiencing both physical and psychosocial challenges and brings a practical, adaptable approach to supporting independence and everyday functioning.
Winsome has a strong interest in supporting people to improve safety, confidence, and quality of life within their home and community environments.
She values building genuine therapeutic relationships and tailoring supports to each person’s unique circumstances and goals.
Outside of work, Winsome enjoys time at the beach, music, and spending time with family and friends
Jamie Murphy
Bachelor of Occupational Therapy (Hons)
Mental Health Occupational Therapist
Jamie is a Mental Health Occupational Therapist with experience supporting individuals across inpatient, outpatient, and community mental health settings. She works with adolescents and adults experiencing a range of mental health, emotional, and functional difficulties.
Jamie brings a warm, grounded, and collaborative approach to therapy. She is passionate about supporting individuals to better understand themselves, build confidence, and engage more meaningfully in everyday life. Her practice draws from a range of evidence-based approaches including sensory modulation, CBT, ACT, and DBT-informed strategies.
Outside of work, Jamie enjoys nature, quiet spaces, and time with loved ones
Hannah Robertson
Bachelor of Occupational Therapy
Occupational Therapist
Hannah is an Occupational Therapist who supports people with mental health and psychosocial needs to build independence and participate meaningfully in everyday life. Since graduating in 2018, she has gained experience across mental health, community, rehabilitation and aged care settings.
Hannah’s approach is person-centred, strengths-based and collaborative, with particular interests in functional capacity and skill development. She considers how mental health, emotional wellbeing, routines, environment and daily demands influence everyday functioning, working with individuals to identify barriers, build on their strengths and develop practical strategies.
She values genuine therapeutic relationships and providing individualised care that supports each person to work towards goals that matter to them. Hannah works with adolescents and adults across Brisbane’s southside and also offers telehealth appointments.
Outside of work, Hannah enjoys spending time at the beach, exploring nature, listening to music and being with friends and family.
Amar Mesalic
Master of Social Work
Social Worker
Amar is an experienced social worker, with more than 8 years of experience working with participants with disabilities across various roles. Amar works with adults of all ages and specialises in working with participants presenting with severe and persistent mental illness including depression and anxiety, psychotic disorders, and personality disorders. Amar also has speciality in working with participants with backgrounds of trauma and Acquired Brain Injury.
Amar is influenced by critical social work theory, systems theory and post-structuralist ideology. Critical social work theory emphasizes the importance of challenging social inequality, and promoting social justice and systemic change. Systems theory provides a framework for understanding the complex interconnections within social systems, enabling a holistic approach to problem-solving. Poststructuralist ideology emphasises questioning traditional power structures and promoting equal opportunities and access for all.
By integrating these theories and models, Amar ensures that every individual he works with is empowered and connected to their community.
When Amar isn’t at work, he enjoys spending time with his partner and his two Labradors, and watching and playing sports.
You can contact Amar via mobile on 0426 862 074 or via email at amar@wpmentalhealth.com.au.
Jess Bingham
Master of Social Work, Bachelor of Psychological Science
Social Worker
Jess is a social worker with over 6 years of experience supporting people across the mental health, disability and community sectors. Jess has worked in a variety of roles including case management, behaviour support and specialist NDIS Support Coordination.
Jess takes a warm and genuine approach to her work, placing a strong emphasis on building authentic relationships and creating a space where people feel heard, understood and empowered to build the life they want.
Drawing on her experience facilitating community-based Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) groups, Jess is passionate about helping people move towards their goals even when faced with difficult thoughts, feelings, emotions, or life circumstances. Jess is strengths-based and solutions-focused, helping people respond effectively to challenges, develop practical strategies, and create sustainable change in the areas of life that matter most to them.
Outside of work, Jess enjoys cooking, baking, and spending time with her family and friends.
You can contact Jess via mobile on 0437 447 312 or via email at jess@wpmentalhealth.com.au.
Damien Campbell
Administrator
Damien has supported the With Purpose Mental Health team through administration and operational coordination for the past three years.
With over 10 years of experience working within the health industry, he brings strong organisational skills, professionalism, and a calm, approachable presence to the team.
Damien plays an important role in supporting smooth communication and day-to-day operations across the practice.
Outside of work, Damien enjoys health and wellbeing, travel, and spending time with family and friends