Trauma Support Providers

Professional Biography

Salome Mbenjele is a qualified clinical supervisor, counsellor, Train the Trainer, family therapist and training consultant. With more than 16 years’ experience under her belt, Salome is fuelled by passion to develop unique ways of understanding how we think, what we feel and why we behave as we do. Salome has worked in a range of state government and public sector roles in addition to independent practice as a clinician, manager and supervisor and training consultant. Salome also provides individual professional coaching, mentoring and debriefing and utilises cognitive mindfulness-based strategies to empower and facilitate rapid personal, professional and organisational change.
Salome works with individuals and organisations specialising in drug and alcohol, Torture and trauma, mental health, wellbeing and happiness including domestic family and sexual violence. As such, she has also developed unique training packages for leadership development, team building, conflict resolution, effective communication, working with refugees and asylum seekers, compassionate fatigue, cultural competence, facilitating groups with people from CaLD background, working with refugees and asylum seekers students and managing change.

Salome personal style is warm, engaging and passionate and builds upon her significant academic qualifications in counselling psychology and trauma informed practice. Salome is acknowledged in the therapeutic field as a lead clinician and trainer in solution focussed and competency-based approaches and integrates these ideas into her everyday world to help build and maintain work and life balance.

Qualifications

• Masters Applied Social Science major Counselling,
• Bachelor of Science, psychology major,
• Bachelor of Counselling,
• Diploma Applied Mental Health
• Diploma in Education

Further Training, Accreditation and Memberships
• National Accredited Mediator
• Registered counsellor with Australian Counsellors Association (ACA)
• Member of Australian College of Supervisors (MACOS)
• Trauma Puzzle Facilitator Training (Complex Trauma Training WA)
• Train The Trainer (Complex Trauma Training WA)
• Schema Therapy (Therapy Training)
• EMDR (Therapy Training)
• Certificate II in leadership,
• Group Clinical Supervision, (Individual, Couple and Family Therapy)

Client Types

• Adolescent
• Adult
• Couple
• Family
• Groups
• LGBTIQ