Associate Professor Anthony Venning

Associate Professor in Behavioural Health

College of Medicine and Public Health

place Flinders Medical Centre Building
GPO Box 2100, ADELAIDE, SA, 5001

Associate Professor Anthony Venning is a registered psychologist, and former Discipline lead of Behavioural Health (2023-2025) and Course Coordinator for the Singapore and Domestic Counselling suite of post-graduate programs (2021-2024). Associate Professor Venning leads a translational research program focused on the development, evaluation, and implementation of scalable, low-intensity and digitally enabled cognitive behavioural and behaviour-change interventions to improve mental health, wellbeing, and functional outcomes. His research is grounded in health psychology and implementation science and addresses persistent gaps in access to care through the testing of pragmatic interventions in real-world health, community, and workplace settings. Associate Professor Venning has established and sustained partnerships with health services, government, and industry to deliver practice-ready evidence that informs service design, supports sustainable models of care, and achieves measurable impact for priority populations, including improved wellbeing, engagement, and return-to-work outcomes. 

Qualifications

Bachelor of Social Science (2004)

Bachelor of Health Sciences (2005)

Master of Psychology (Clinical) (2009)

Doctor of Philosophy (2009)

Honours, awards and grants

2022 Flinders CMPH Student-led Teaching Award

Funding

- Status Employment: $25,000

- Australian Unity: $119,298

- Department for Veterans Affairs: $270,040

- South Australian Mental Health Commission: $16,023   

- The Road Home Foundation: $60,000

- Clevertar: $71,965

-  Veterans and Veterans Families Counselling Services: $145,201

- Department for Veterans Affairs: $83,489

Key responsibilities

Chair Flinders Student Appeals Committee (alternate)

Placement coordination (Counselling programs)

Teaching interests

My research and teaching involves four integrated lines of interest (a) accurately measuring and describing the wellbeing of individuals (health promotion), (b) how character strengths can be developed in populations deemed to be ‘at-risk’ of future psychological distress to build a sustainable state of wellbeing, (c) the benefits of a strength-based compared to a deficit approach to treating mental illness, and (d) the practice of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).

Topic coordinator
MHSC8035 Theories of Counselling and Psychotherapy
MHSC8042 Research Methods in Counselling
Topic lecturer
MHSC9031 Extended Applications of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (2)
MHSC8033 Clinical Practicum 1
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