Bert has been a registered psychologist for over 30 years and has worked in the UK, New Zealand, Canada, and Australia. His focus has been on occupational concerns of human service providers, safety culture and workforce wellness in the construction and railway sectors, and general return to work and workplace support concerns for injured workers. His academic teaching and research career has been at Massey University, New Zealand, Southern Cross University, Griffith University and Queensland University of Technology. In addition to QUT he is currently on Faculty at Pacific Coast University for Workplace Health Sciences at Port Alberni, Canada. He is also a Board Member of the combined Departments of Defence and Veterans’ Affairs Human Research Ethics Committee. Bert has consulted across a range of industries and is firm advocate of the utility and potential of psychological principles to support employee and employer challenges.

Andrew acquired general registration as a psychologist in 2021 and has been working for Queensland Corrective Services for almost eight years. He has experience across a variety of areas, including the facilitation of group-based criminogenic programs; assessment of offender risk, including suicide, self-harm, domestic violence and sexual offending; provision of psychological intervention to address risk; and training and leading a team of mental health professionals to safely and effectively support the rehabilitation and recovery of offenders in custody. Andrew’s current focus is on supporting the continuous clinical and leadership development of the QCS psychological workforce.

My name is Sara Hanggi, and I am an early career Psychologist currently employed in the role of Mental Health Clinician for Open Minds, a values-based not-for-profit organisation delivering community-based mental health services as part of the newly established Medicare Mental Health Centre in Ipswich. This PHN funded service provides accessible, no-cost, no-wrong-door, referral pathway for all persons experiencing distress or crisis, and access to immediate mental health support via phone referral or walk-in direct off the street. I am working as a member of an expanding clinical team to deliver individualised short to medium term psychological intervention targeting the complexity of psychosocial and mental health concerns of consumers from the Ipswich/West Moreton region. My goal is to deliver evidence-based, integrative therapy that honours the challenges, strengths and potential of clients, and centres them as the expert in their life. Transformation is difficult, so I seek to support people to build their capacity for mental health recovery and to reconnect with meaning and purpose in their life's journey. I redirected from a former career in environmental science to psychology over ten years ago and completed my undergraduate studies as a mature age student. To build experience in the sector, I initially worked in community based not-for-profit roles and then completed my 4+2 internship through corrections.