About me

As a mature age student, I stepped into a world at university which was initially overwhelming. After much deliberation, I successfully completed a double degree in Social Welfare and Arts with a major in Indigenous subjects.

I later completed a Graduate Certificate of Social Science (Male Family Violence).

I am also a full member of Community Work Australia.  

My first role out of university was in child protection, then I worked at a prison in rehabilitation and counselling. I had a couple of roles in leadership, but I went back to my love of counselling working in various roles with people that were living with addictions, family violence and trauma.

I was about to say not all at once, but sometimes it did occur, or sometimes two out of three… So I have built solid experience working with people that have experienced trauma and have engaged in various training to ensure my methods are appropriate and trauma-informed.

I can’t quite work out if I am an introverted extrovert or an extroverted introvert, but I guess you would get a sense of what I am trying to say.

I enjoy my own company and have home hobbies such as knitting and sewing. I also enjoy meeting people and my preferred way to do this is through travel, with plans to tour Australia over the next few years in my little caravan. I have recently joined a local art group as I really would love to learn to draw well…