About

E ngā mana, e ngā reo, e ngā mātāwaka, tēnā koutou katoa.  I wish to acknowledge all the connections we have to ANZATSA throughout Pasifika and Australasia. I am of Ngāpuhi, Te Roroa and Ngāti Rangiwewehi descent. I am driven to improve Māori wellbeing outcomes and provide a Māori cultural perspective that enhances ANZATSA’s vision. I have over 10 years experience at Safe Network who provides therapeutic services for concerning and harmful sexual behaviour towards children. In private practice I offer therapy to survivors of sexual abuse as a registered ACC Sensitive Claims provider. I am a member of the New Zealand Association of Counsellors since 2010.

I am a Professor of Clinical Psychology at Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland, and teache clinical, forensic, child and adolescent psychology.

I wish to acknowledge Māori as the Tangata Whenua of Aotearoa and all the connections that ANZATSA has throughout Pasifika and Australasia. My specialist clinical and research interests are in child and adolescent mental health, childhood trauma and youth justice, building on more than 30 years’ experience working with children and adolescents and their families. Initially as a general and psychiatric nurse, then as a specialist clinical psychologist, I worked with children and adolescents with severe conduct problems and trauma, in both family and criminal-justice settings, and was involved for 15 years in programmes for adolescents with harmful sexual behaviour initially at the Leslie Centre (Presbyterian Support Services) and then led the transfer of the programme to come under SAFE Network where it has been for the past 25 years.

O le ala i le pule o le tatua.  In order to lead one must service.  Julia is of Pasifika (Samoan) descent, born and raised in Aotearoa NZ.  She is a professor in clinical psychology and registered as a clinical psychologist (NZ) and psychologist (NSW).  She teaches in the doctoral clinical psychology at Massey University and conducts research mainly in criminal psychology with a focus on childhood trauma and mental health.  Her clinical practice serves children, youth and their families in child and youth justice that Includes harmful sexual behaviour – all are informed by Pasifika and indigenous worldviews. She also holds governance and key advisory roles in the sector while serving indigenous and Pasifika communities.

Christine is based in Brisbane (Meanjin) and joined the ANZATSA Executive Committee in 2022. Christine has extensive experience in working with young people with harmful sexual behaviours and their families and with victim/survivors using a restorative justice framework and has also works with adjudicated young people.

Registered Clinical Psychologist with over 50 years’ experience in the treatment of violence and child sexual abuse. Founding Board member in 1989 and Clinical Director SafeCare 1997 to 2008 and 2022 to present (www.safecare.org.au), member WA Parole Board 2002 – 2006, single expert witness appointed by the Family Court of Western Australia, postgraduate Psychiatry lecturer on child sexual abuse, member of Non-Government Advisory Committee of the National Office for Child Safety since 2022, in private practice offering individual therapy and community-based group treatment programs for child sexual offending since 2010 and working with aboriginal communities since 2013 (www.helpingfamiliesheal.com.au).

Julie Shelley is the Aboriginal Clinical Advisor for the New Street Services – Children & Young People Sexual Safety Program (CYPSS) at the Children’s Hospital Network and is the central clinical support to the New Street Services Aboriginal workforce and coordination and communication of the program in its engagement with and provision of services to Aboriginal children, families, and communities state-wide. Julie has responsibilities to the Local Health Districts, the Education Centre Against Violence (ECAV), NSW Ministry of Health and Sydney Children Hospital Network (SCHN).

Julie has worked in the Aboriginal Community for over 24 years and worked with young people who have sexually harmed others for over 14 years.

I am a social worker with a strong interest in supporting those who have experienced sexual abuse, displayed harmful sexual behaviour. As part of this passion, I have spent most of my career working in Government and Non- Government organisations across Australia in urban, rural, and remote settings. I currently have a private practice based in Brisbane with a focus on providing assessment and treatment for mental health and harmful sexual behaviour. I have also spent the last several years offering consultation services to organisations relating to this area.

I am a Forensic Psychologist in private practice living and working on Kaurna lands on the Adelaide Plains. Throughout my professional career I have been working with adults who have come into contact with the criminal justice system and provided both group based and individual therapeutic services in custody and in the community. A special area of interest and practice has been working with people who have engaged in harmful sexual behaviour and medico-legal expertise for courts in South Australia. Having served as chair of the APS College of Forensic Psychology (SA) and committee member of ANZAPPL in the past, I was honoured to be nominated President of ANZATSA in 2022 and committed to advancing networking and training opportunities for members and advocating for improved understanding and treatment resources to improve lives and reduce future risk.