Presenters' Profiles
Josephine Beatson
...is a consultant psychiatrist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist with over 20 years experience in public and private settings. She has a particular interest in the understanding and treatment of severe personality disorders and promotion of reflective practice with these clients.
Brett Bridges
...is a psychiatric nurse with 18 years experience in a variety of mental health settings, including forensic and correctional. Since 2005 Brett has provided individual and family treatment, and consultation and training in intensive and complex treatment settings as a member of Spectrum's community services team.
Julian Browne
... is a psychologist with a background in psychotherapy with individuals, groups and couples, and has worked in both forensic and community settings around complex clients with a history of trauma. He has an interest in innovative training methods, and systems theory as applied to families and organisations.
Harry Constantinou
...is a psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist who works within Spectrum's Community Services Team as a senior clinician providing consultation and individual treatment. He has over 10 years clinical experience working in various community settings and is also in private practice.
Kate Cooke
...is a psychiatric and general nurse, psychodramatist and anthropologist. She has had 37 years work in a variety of public and private, psychiatric and non-psychiatric settings in Australia and New Zealand. She has worked with individuals and groups as a nurse, therapist, trainer and mediator. Kate works at Spectrum as a senior clinician leading the kinaesthetic groups within the Treatment Services Program.
Anna Correia
...is a social worker and psychoanalytic psychotherapist who has had many years of experience as a clinician, consultant and manager in both CAMHS and Community Health. She now manages Spectrum's Community Services Program.
Debbie Dick
...is a family therapist and psychiatric nurse with 21 years experience in a range of mental health settings including crisis teams. She works in the Spectrum Community Services team and also in private practice.
Jan Giffin
...is an occupational therapist, family therapist and psychotherapist who works with Spectrum's Community Services team. She has worked as a case manager and therapist in community and inpatient mental health settings.
George Habib
...is a psychologist and a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in the position of the Principal Practitioner for Child Protection in the Southern Metropolitan Region. He consults with Child Protection staff, families, caregivers and community agency staff to assist them to address the emotional and psychological needs of children and adolescents who have experienced traumatic events and/or early relational disturbance. He has previously worked as a senior mental health clinician and has had over a decade of experience in working with clients involved with Child Protection.
Ben McGill
...is a social worker. He is also practicising clinical psychoanalysis. Ben has many years experience with psychiatric disability and rehabilitation services (PDRS), carer services, youth work and CAMHS.
Rada Nedeljkovic
...is a psychologist and psychotherapist working with Spectrum's Community Services Team. She has a particular interest in the understanding of individuals with personality disorder and the development of individualised treatment approaches.
Sathya Rao
...is a consultant psychiatrist at Spectrum and Southern Health. He is a DBT therapist and has a keen interest in teaching and training. He also holds the position of chair of the Victorian Psychiatry Training Committee.
Leanne Shaw
...is a psychologist who has worked at Spectrum for 10 years. She has an interest in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
Janina Tomasoni
...is a psychologist and psychotherapist who has worked with complex and challenging individuals across a number of public mental health and disability settings as well as private settings over the last 16 years. Currently she works in Spectrum's Community Services Program providing intensive psychological support to clients and services. Janina has a particular interest in the adaptation of psychological therapies to people with cognitive deficits.
Robert Trett
...is a mental health nurse and psychotherapist. He has over 25 years experience working in psychiatric inpatient services, community mental health programs, private practice and personality disorder services in both New Zealand and Australia. Since commencing at Spectrum in 2001 Robert has held a number of leadership roles within Spectrum's treatment services and more recently, across Spectrum's programs.
Peta Welsh
…is a clinical psychologist who is training in psychoanalysis. Her work at Spectrum as part of the Community Services Team is predominantly the provision of individual treatment to those who are deemed difficult to engage and to treat and more recently this has focussed on adolescents and young adults. Her previous work experience includes dual diagnosis and psychiatric disability support. Her interest is in how to sustain clinical interest and vibrancy in the face of chronicity and complexity.
Katie Wyman
...is a psychologist who has worked as a clinician and researcher in public mental health for the last 10 years. Her individual and group work is largely influenced by Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Humanistic frameworks. Katie is currently researching the contribution of therapists' personal charateristics to the therapeutic alliance.