Experience

St Joseph's College

• Australia
• Primary and Secondary Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• School Counsellor

  • Jan 2016 - Present

  Main duties involves: - Offering confidential counselling services to students, parents/guardians or staff as requested or referred, individually or in pairs, families or groups. - Mediating between students and parents/guardians, other students or staff; or with other members of the school community, to support individuals in the school context. -Observing the professional integrity of the counselling relationship at all times; and maintain appropriate records and case notes on clients, whether individual or groups. - Supporting teachers with personal or professional issues or where there are problems with students, families or others. - Involvement in n critical incident response and critical incident debriefing and counselling at both personal and community level, co-ordinating the help of other skilled personnel where needed. - Liaising with other professional bodies and services. - Consulting in the formulation of policies relating to welfare, guidance and support, for example, Loss and Grief, Critical Incident Response, Bullying, Mandatory Reporting, Alcohol and Drug Education. - Attending, where practicable relevant Counselling Network meetings and conferences especially those sponsored by the Catholic Education Office. -Undertaking on a regular basis professional peer review and supervision individually or with a group; offer appropriate professional supervision to graduate and postgraduate students.



Monash University

• Australia
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research and Teaching Assistant

  • Mar 2016 - Dec 2017

  Role involves working in a research team within the Faculty of Education to develop research thesis topics and provide supervision for a group of Graduate Diploma of Psychology (accredited fourth year program) students. Specific duties involve:o Develop research topics for students in the area of Educational and Developmental Psychologyo Plan and scope appropriate projects for completion during the fourth year programo Provide support and assistance to students throughout the completion of the Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA)/Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) based research projectso Support students to balance their workload between research and coursework commitmentso Provide feedback on draft thesis literature review documents and journal articles in preparation for submissiono Provide feedback on other students proposal presentationso Mark and provide feedback on other student’s final thesis documents.I am involved in the Applied Behaviour Analysis Researcher supervision group with three Monash University Faculty of Education academic staff members and two other research assistants. Together we work collaboratively to supervise group Grad. Dip. students throughout the completion of their thesis each year.

• MPsych(Ed & Dev)/PhD Candidate

  • Jan 2012 - Dec 2017

• Research Project Coordinator

  • Feb 2014 - Feb 2016

  Research Project DescriptionA multi-site randomized controlled trial of an iPad application named “TOBY: Therapy Outcomes by You”. Primary coordinating site: The Telethon Institute in Western Australia. Secondary site: Monash University, Clayton in Melbourne, Victoria. Background of StudyThe effectiveness of educational and behavioural early interventions in treating autism are highly dependent on the amount of time spent with a trained therapist which most families are unable to access or provide. Therefore, an intervention method that can improve the time and cost effectiveness of early intervention has the potential to provide a large benefit to the community. TOBY (Therapy Outcomes By You) Playpad is an iPad educational application (app) developed by a team of computer scientists, psychologists and speech pathologists. The TOBY app may provide an affordable and easily accessible intervention method to supplement existing early learning therapy.Aim of studyThe study aims to determine the effectiveness of the TOBY Playpad app as a complement to early behavioural intervention and examine the attitudes and beliefs of parents towards TOBY as an intervention method.



OzChild (previously Wresacare)

• Disability Direct Care Provider

  • 2011 - 2016



Emmaus College

• Provisional Psychologist

  • Jun 2013 - Dec 2013



Krongold Educational and Developmental Clinic

• Provisional Psychologist

  • Nov 2012 - Jul 2013