Our training and consulting team
Our team of trainers and consultants bring significant subject matter expertise, practice experience, communication skills and networks to the work of Berry Street.
They continually strive for excellence and are all strongly committed to using their knowledge to drive change for children, young people and families who have experienced disadvantage.
Berry Street Trainers
BSEM consultants
Michele Sampson
Graduate Diploma (Reading Education) | Diploma of Teaching
Cheree Taylor
Master of Business Administration | Bachelor of Education (Special Education) | Bachelor of Arts (Psychology and Youth Studies) | Certificate IV in Training and Assessment
John Barkley
Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) | Graduate Diploma of Teaching
Joanne Olsen
Masters of Science (English Education) | Bachelor Arts (English) | Certificate in Positive Education
Judy Hilton
Master of Applied Positive Psychology | Graduate Diploma School Counselling; Bachelor of Education | Diploma Positive Psychology and Wellbeing | Diploma Community Services Management | Diploma Training and Assessment Systems | Diploma Alcohol and Other Drugs Work
Kaine Volkov
Bachelor of Applied Science (Human Movement) | Bachelor of Education (Junior Primary/Primary) | Master of Education (Wellbeing & Positive Mental Health)
Tanya Lancaster
Registered Psychologist | Post Graduate Diploma Counselling Psychology | Graduate Diploma Psychology | Bachelor of Education (General Primary)
Sarah Forgan
Master of Education (Communities and Social Justice) Bachelor of Education (Primary)
Monique Langley-Freeman
Bachelor of Arts (Hons) | Master of Teaching
Lisa Hoang
Bachelor of Arts | Bachelor of Education | Professional Certificate of Adolescent Counselling | Graduate Diploma of Counselling | Professional Certificate of Coaching for Educational Leaders | Professional Certificate of Positive Education
Andrew Zakrzewski
Bachelor Arts/ Bachelor Teaching with Special Educational Needs (SEN) specialisation | Certificate IV Training and Assessment
Brian Douglas Bailey
Bachelor of Education | Master of Education
Lena Streiff Kosok
AMI/NAMTA Montessori 12-18 Qualification | Graduate Diploma Secondary Education | Bachelor Performing Arts
Simone Kapaun
Master of Teaching | Bachelor of Music
Kate Lose
Bachelor of Education: Junior Primary and Primary | Professional Certificate of Positive Psychology
Emma Seeber
Bachelor of Commerce | Graduate Diploma of Education (Middle School Specialist) | Diploma of Montessori Education (Middle years) | Certificate IV Community Services (Community Work)
Financial literacy trainers
Janet Everist
Bachelor of Arts (Social Sciences) | Bachelor of Social Work | Masters of Social Policy | Certificate IV Training and Assessment.
Specialist trauma trainers
Professor Anne Buist
FRANZCP | Doctor of Medicine | Master of Medicine | Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
Professor Campbell Paul
FRANZCP | Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery| Certificate of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Lisa Bolger
Mental Health Nurse
Emma Toone
Master of Child Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy | Graduate Diploma Psychoanalytic Studies | Bachelor of Health Science Naturopathy
Dr Chandra Ghosh Ippen
Ph.D. Clinical Psychology | BA Psychology and French
Take two trainers
Annette Jackson
Master of Social Work | Bachelor of Social Work | Certificate of Developmental Psychiatry | Creswick Fellow, 2004 | Diploma (Therapeutic Life Story Work) | Child Trauma Fellow, ChildTrauma Academy
Kathleen Wood
Bachelor Social Work | Cert IV Health (Nursing) | Cert IV Training & Assessment
Dr Kerry Slabak
Bachelor of Science (Honours) | Doctor of Psychology (Educational & Developmental)