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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Dr Audehm is a Melbourne based GP with 20 years experience and has been actively involved in Divisions of General Practice since 1994. The emergence of the Divisions of General Practice fostered Ralph with an interest in population health, especially in diabetes. Ralph has had n...

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Ingi Barr is an author/illustrator and passionate mental health advocate with a Diploma in Community Development from Swinburne in Melbourne. Ingi's advocacy focuses on reducing stigma surrounding mental illness. Her first book "Walking the Black Dog" addresses depression, and is...

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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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Ursula is a psychologist with over fifteen years experience in counselling, supervision and training in the community and private sectors. She specialises in working with people who have experienced complex trauma. She has taught Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Counselling T...

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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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Dr Stephen Carbone is a Melbourne-based GP with a specialist interest in, and experience working in, the mental health field. He currently works part time in general practice and is employed part time as a policy advisor with headspace, the National Youth Mental Health Initiative...

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Dr Michael Carr-Gregg is an adolescent psychologist working in private practice in Kew, Melbourne. He has held a variety of appointments including: Executive Director of the New Zealand Drug Foundation and Director of the Centre for Social Health at the University of Melbo...

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David is Chair of Psychiatry at St Vincent’s Health and The University of Melbourne. His clinical and research interests include schizophrenia and related disorders, cannabis abuse, and bipolar disorder. A specific area of interest is the medical care of people with a mental illn...

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