Sarah-Jayne Duryea is the Founder and Principal Psychologist at Happy Minds Psychology, with a strong clinical focus on supporting people in high-pressure and high-impact roles. She has a special interest in working with surrogacy teams, first responders, frontline workers, and individuals in demanding careers, including athletes, performers, and professionals navigating chronic stress, burnout, or trauma exposure.
Sarah-Jayne also works extensively in perinatal psychology, professional coaching, and clinical supervision. She is passionate about helping fellow professionals — including psychologists, counsellors, and leaders — build sustainable skills, emotional resilience, and effective strategies to thrive both personally and within their teams. She provides professional coaching and board-approved supervision, with a particular commitment to supporting provisional psychologists through the registration pathway.
In her family-building work, Sarah-Jayne supports individuals and couples pursuing parenthood through IVF, surrogacy, donor conception, and adoption. As an ANZICA-registered practitioner, she provides independent counselling and psychological assessments for surrogacy arrangements, offering informed, compassionate, and ethical support throughout the process.
Sarah-Jayne also contributes to the future of the profession as a member of the Psychology Industry Advisory Board at Deakin University.
