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.
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
Gloria Zahra
BA(His/Pol), Grad Dip Ed (Sec), Grad Cert Gifted Ed, Grad Cert Pos Ed, Grad Cert Culturally Responsive Lit
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
Financial literacy trainers
Anita Pell
Masters of Social Work | Bachelor of Social Work | Diploma of Business Management | Diploma of Pastoral Care
Gail Walton
Diploma of Youth Work | Certificate IV in Training & Assessment
Foster care trainers
Deb Collard
Bachelor of Social Work | Post Graduate Diploma in Developmental Psychiatry | Post Graduate in Play Therapy | Certificate IV in Investigations
Specialist trauma trainers
Professor Anne Buist
FRANZCP | Doctor of Medicine | Master of Medicine | Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
David Mandel
Master of Arts | Licensed Professional Counselor
Professor Campbell Paul
FRANZCP | Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery| Certificate of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Heidi Rankin
Master of Public Administration
Lisa Bolger
Mental Health Nurse
Julie Larrieu, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry | Director, Division of Clinical Psychology
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
Jessamy House
Bachelor of Social Work (Hons)
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
Clare Ryan
Bachelor of Social Work | Certificate IV in Workplace Assessment and Training | Certified Trainer in NMT | Diploma of Project Management
Kathleen Wood
Bachelor Social Work | Cert IV Health (Nursing) | Cert IV Training & Assessment