Bachelor of Applied Science (Speech-Language Pathology), Flinders University of South Australia
Graduate Diploma in Health Science (Parent Education & Counselling), University of South Australia
Masters of Arts (Marriage, Family and Child Counselling), Pacific Oaks College, Pasadena, Los Angeles
Graduate Certificate in Critical Psychology, Bolton Institute, UK
PhD in Critical Social Science, University of Western Sydney (in progress)

Kathleen has worked professionally and academically in a range of human services fields in Australia and North America since 1985, including youth, mental health, community health, community services, early childhood and education sectors. This work has taken her into both urban and rural regions, operating within and across government, non-government and private sectors at local, regional, statewide and national levels.

Over the last eight years Kathleen has been regularly invited to contribute to evaluation of community-based projects, strategic planning, policy development, curriculum development, education/training, and social-emotional wellbeing projects in the Indigenous health and community services sector.

Kathleen has been recognised through national, regional and professional
awards for her work. In 1998/9 she won both a National Human Rights and Equal Opportunity and a Regional Award for CHAMPS, a highly successful regional youth mental health promotion project that she established and coordinated from 1995 - 1998 and is still in operation on an extended basis today.

In 1999 she won the Gold Award at the Australian & New Zealand Mental Health Service Achievement Awards for an Outstanding Individual Contribution to Mental Health Theory, Education and Practice. This acknowledged her work in mental health promotion, youth mental health, suicide prevention and family therapy as a practitioner, educator and academic. As the evaluator and member of the Youthlink Team, a mobile early intervention mental health service for young people aged 16-19 years, she won another Gold Award at the 2005 Australian & New Zealand Mental Health Service Achievement Awards.

Kathleen has extensive training in family therapy and narrative approaches to both therapy and community work, gained in Australia and North America. In her therapeutic work she specialises in working with: experiences of trauma, abuse, violence and loss; eating problems; and also young people (and their significant others).

For the last 15 years Kathleen has taught in therapeutic, youth participation, mental health, community work, cultural studies and Indigenous areas, presenting workshops and courses in Australia, New Zealand, England, Canada and the USA. Her conference papers, workshops, and professional workshops and invited lectures courses exceed 130. She has developed and/or coordinated and taught 26 entire courses/subjects since 1993 at three Australian universities and one USA university. Kathleen is extensively published, with 92 national and international publications (book chapters, commissioned works/reports, refereed journals, refereed conference proceedings and non-refereed journals).

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