Trauma Support Providers

Professional Biography

I have been professionally trained Social Worker for 40 years operating within clinical practice and with special interests and experience in child welfare, working with children and adults who are survivors of childhood sexual abuse and perinatal mental health. I have worked in both UK and Australia directly with children and adults who were and are survivors of child residential care facilities. I have considerable experience in both group work and individual counseling of abuse survivors. After establishing and supporting a Child sexual Abuse Survivors group in rural South Gippsland, Victoria in 1992 I then, in 1995, established the DHS (Victoria) funded Child Sexual Abuse Counseling Service in Bass Coast Health. This service is still in operation. Since then I have worked with NGOs (Uniting Care Gippsland) and in private practice. I have completed a Master of Social Work (research) degree at Monash University with the specific topic of the perinatal mental health sequelae of childhood sexual abuse. I am comfortable and experienced in working with both men and women survivors. I also have considerable experience in the training and supervision of other workers and am happy to continue in this direction.

Client Types

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