About · Dr Sarah Anticich

Clinical depth.Organisational perspective.

Dr Sarah Anticich is a Clinical and Industrial/Organisational Psychologist and the founder of Executive Frame™. For more than twenty years, she has worked with individuals, families, clinicians, leaders, and organisations navigating sustained pressure, complex change, recovery, and performance.

Her work is grounded in a simple premise: people cannot be understood in isolation from the systems, relationships, and conditions around them.
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Dr Sarah Anticich, Clinical and Industrial/Organisational Psychologist
A professional perspective

Twenty years of practice, one through-line: capacity — how people keep thinking, feeling, and functioning well when the load around them is real.

Executive Frame in practice

One architecture. Nine contexts.

Sarah developed Executive Frame™ to translate psychological science into a practical architecture for life and work under pressure. Its core principles remain consistent, while each programme is shaped around the realities of a particular person, profession, family, or system.

01EF|Health→Psychological care for chronic illness and complex gut–brain conditions. 02EF|Law→Clear thinking, composure, and capacity under adversarial pressure. 03EF|Corporate→Psychologically informed development for leaders and teams. 04EF|Elite→Sustainable high performance without self-abandonment. 05EF|Women→Capacity and identity through demanding seasons of work and life. 06EF|Neurodiversity→Strengths-based support shaped around how a person functions. 07EF|Family→Practical psychological support within real family systems. 08C³|Consulting→Psychological systems design, leadership development, and advisory. 09EF|Education→Psychologically informed support for educators, schools, and learning communities.
Experience & areas of practice

Practice across sectors and systems.

Sarah's work spans the consulting room, interdisciplinary services, leadership settings, and organisation-wide programme design — across healthcare, education, corrections, high-performance sport, legal practice, insurance, and consulting. The context changes; the question stays the same: what will help this person or system recover capacity under pressure?

01Clinical practice

Complex assessment and treatment — trauma, emotional dysregulation, executive-functioning difficulties, and identity disturbance. Approved ACC Sensitive Claims provider.

02Organisational practice

Leadership development, clinical and professional supervision, interdisciplinary consultation, and the design of psychologically informed programmes for teams and complex systems.

03Where the work has lived

Hospitals, schools, community and specialist health services, private practice, and complex organisational environments — spanning assessment and intervention, supervision, leadership development, programme design, and system-level consultation.

04Qualifications & registrations

Dr Anticich holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of Queensland; her doctoral research focused on the prevention of anxiety and the development of emotional resilience in children and adolescents.

PhD — PsychologyUniversity of Queensland
PGDip Clinical PsychologyPostgraduate Diploma in Clinical Psychology
MSc (First Class Hons)Industrial and Organisational Psychology
BSc — Psychologywith a First Class Honours degree in Child and Family Psychology, endorsed in Education
MNZCCPMember, New Zealand College of Clinical Psychologists
Scientist–practitioner approach

Evidence-led. Delivered with care.

Across her clinical and organisational work, Sarah brings scientific discipline together with warmth, clarity, and practical judgement. Recommendations are shaped by evidence, but also by the person, context, and conditions in which change must occur.

Whether she is working with an individual client, supervising a clinician, advising an interdisciplinary team, or helping an organisation respond to complexity, the aim is the same: thoughtful psychological work that remains useful beyond the room.

Professional affiliations & provider relationships

Professional connections.

ACC — Sensitive ClaimsApproved provider under ACC's Sensitive Claims pathway.
Southern CrossPreferred provider for funded sessions.
RNZCGPRegistered provider, Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners.
Gumboot FridayRegistered provider — youth mental health counselling.
Growth Mindset InstituteAccredited Growth Mindset facilitator.
MacMurray CentreAffiliated through the MediMinds programme in digestive health.
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Considered work, from the first conversation.

If her approach fits what you, your family, or your organisation are navigating, the next step is simple and unhurried.

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Human first. Then performance.