Performance & Integrative Health Psychology
Specialising in pain rehabilitation, women's hormonal health, gut optimisation and elite athlete support.
Paige Linegar integrates clinical psychology, evidence-based nutrition and performance science to support athletes, active individuals and high performers through injury, chronic pain, hormonal challenges and complex health conditions. Her approach addresses the whole system: mind, gut, hormones and nervous system, because lasting recovery and peak performance depend on it.
About Paige
Paige Linegar is a Registered Psychologist who has worked in clinical practice for over eight years. Across that time, she has built a practice at the intersection of psychology, physiology and performance, grounded in direct clinical work with individuals navigating pain, injury, hormonal health and high-performance demands. Her training spans psychological science, evidence-based nutrition, herbal medicine and somatic nervous system work, enabling care that is rigorous, individualised and genuinely integrative.
Her clinical background includes two years as a rehabilitation consultant within a major Australian corporation, leadership of mental health retreats and structured group programs, and specialist nutritional consulting for HOKA marathon events. She does not just understand high performance; she has lived it.
As an Australian Champion ultra-endurance athlete who has competed on the world stage, Paige brings an uncommon perspective to the challenges faced by athletes and active individuals: the fear of re-injury, the identity shifts that accompany chronic pain, the physiological toll of sustained high output. This lived experience sharpens her clinical insight without ever softening her evidence base.
Paige's approach is collaborative and precision-focused. She aligns her psychological and nutritional interventions directly with the treatment plans of the clinical team around her, ensuring that recovery addresses every system involved in pain, performance and wellbeing, not just the presenting complaint.
Qualifications
Clinical Services
Each service area reflects Paige's commitment to treating the underlying system, not just the visible symptom. Psychological care, nutritional strategy and nervous system regulation are woven through every pillar.
Pain is a neurological output, not simply a tissue event. Paige works with patients to understand the neuroscience of their pain, address central sensitisation, and navigate the psychological dimensions of injury, from fear of re-injury through to behaviour change during rehabilitation and confident return to sport.
High performance is a system, and it requires more than physical capacity. Paige works with competitive and recreational athletes on performance mindset, recovery optimisation, identity and pressure management, and sustainable performance practices. Nutritional strategies for tissue repair and inflammation management are integrated as standard.
Hormonal health is performance health. Paige supports women navigating menstrual cycle irregularity, under-fuelling and RED-S, elevated cortisol loads, PMS, perimenopause, and the often overlooked relationship between hormones and injury risk. The goal is optimisation, not symptom management.
The gut-brain axis has direct implications for mood, pain sensitivity and recovery. Paige addresses IBS-type presentations, stress-related digestive dysfunction and systemic inflammation through targeted nutritional strategies, recognising that gut function is inseparable from psychological and physical performance.
Injury, chronic pain and sustained high performance each have profound effects on identity and interpersonal functioning. Paige works with individuals on attachment patterns, perfectionism, boundary setting, identity rebuilding after injury, emotional regulation and communication skills, grounding therapeutic work in relational neuroscience.
Paige's services are available via self-referral, GP Mental Health Treatment Plans, or direct referral from your podiatrist or treating clinician.
Who This Is For
"You don't have to be an elite athlete to benefit from performance-level thinking about your health."
Integrated Care Model
Paige works collaboratively and directly with podiatrists, physiotherapists and treating clinicians. Her psychological and nutritional interventions are deliberately aligned with each patient's existing treatment plan, ensuring that rehabilitation addresses biomechanical, biological and psychological factors simultaneously. This is team-based care with shared clinical intent: faster, more durable recovery, and better long-term function.
What to Expect
A comprehensive intake covering psychological history, health background, performance context and presenting concerns. This session establishes a clear clinical picture before any strategy is developed.
Paige conducts a thorough psychological and health assessment, integrating relevant physiological, nutritional and nervous system markers alongside clinical psychological evaluation.
A tailored recovery and performance plan is developed, directly coordinated with your treating team. Interventions are evidence-based, clearly explained and adapted as progress occurs.
Regular sessions maintain clinical momentum, refine the strategy and address emerging barriers. Session frequency is determined by clinical need, not a generic schedule.
Telehealth available where clinically appropriate. Enquire at the time of booking to discuss suitability for your situation.
Credentials & Training
Get Started
Paige accepts referrals directly from podiatrists and treating clinicians, as well as self-referrals and GP Mental Health Treatment Plans. If you're unsure whether this is the right fit, reach out and the team will be glad to help you determine the best next step.