Sydney psychologist accused of using LinkedIn ‘as a dating app’ unleashes on ex-employee …

For months now, I’ve developed a rather shameful little hobby. I no longer doom-scroll Instagram or binge the latest Netflix series. Instead, I open LinkedIn and watch some of the most unhinged drama on the internet play out among white-collar professionals who really should know better. And the platform, usually reserved for nauseating career brags, has become the stage for something far more entertaining in recent weeks – a truly bizarre saga starring Double Bay psychologist Jenna Jones, also known as Jennifer Riches. Jones’ stream of chaotic commentary has become more eyebrow-raising than half the stories that cross my desk as a gossip columnist. For months, she has been airing her dirty laundry on LinkedIn as she rails against a former staff member and the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA), the national statutory watchdog for our medics and therapists. Jones, who turns 40 next week, alleges she is the victim of a sustained campaign of harassment by former employee Tammy Hatherill, who, she claims, has spent the past four years filing a string of baseless complaints about her with the regulator. To recap: Hatherill worked for several months at Jones’ Darwin practice, Net Psychology, as a mental health clinician while
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