Hilary Ash has needed a wheelchair for 25 years after a car accident left her with quadriplegia. It has not stopped her pursuing an active career in social work, and more recently coordinating not one but two MHPN networks. And now she has offered to introduce other coordinators...

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Suzzanne Batson has been working as a registered psychologist for eight years. She is a member of the Australian Psychological Society (APS) and is registered with all private health funds and Medicare. Prior to her registration as a psychologist, Suzanne spent many years workin...

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Sharon Benedierks is a Credentialed Mental Health Nurse currently working within the Mental Health Nurse Incentive Program on the Mornington Peninsula. Her previous experience is in the public mental health system, where she worked on an adult acute inpatient ward for ten years,...

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As a counselling psychologist, Sarah believes that maintaining a varied counselling and coaching practice while maintaining a special interest and expertise in relationship and sexual issues has enabled her to develop a broad perspective on healthy and positive relationships in o...

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Since 1999 Dr Jacob Dessauer has been GP representative for mental health at Dandenong Casey GP division and South Health. He has also been involved in GP training with RACGP/VMA; is part of the  Psychiatric Registrar in GP rooms pilot project; and is also involved with the ...

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A fascination in people’s stories, and a desire to work with rural and remote communities lie behind Sarah Farrell’s profile as Coordinator of MHPN’s Broome and Derby networks. Having been involved in the networks in the northwest since 2009, Sarah is a veteran by MHPN standards...

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Mental health nurse and Metro South network coordinator,Vicki Green, first got involved with MHPN in 2009 as team leader in Queensland Health’s Mental Health operation. Her job entailed linking better with the community and creating pathways for consumers in and out of...

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German-born Hiltrud Kivelitz co-coordinates the Darwin MHPN network. Having worked after school in Germany in a Rudolf Steiner facility for children with disabilities, she knew that social work and caring were her natural career. As the daughter of a social worker she decided to...

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Coordinating the Alice Springs Mental Health Professionals Network has helped Sascha Kowolenko consolidate and broaden the focus of her role with the Australian Psychological Society (APS). Through APS Alice Springs veteran, Mike Tyrell, she was introduced to the Mental Health Pr...

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A GP who has discovered the power of interdisciplinary networking is Dr Johanna Lynch, director of Integrate Place, a primary health care centre in the Brisbane suburb of Wynnum. After facilitating an MHPN workshop, Dr Lynch approached MHPN with the objective of forming her own ...

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