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 Education Model (BSEM) consultants
Christina Dawson
Masters Education, Student Wellbeing | Grad Dip Careers Education & Development | Bachelor of Social Work
Michele Sampson
Graduate Diploma (Reading Education) | Diploma of Teaching
Grace Langton
Master of Special and Inclusive Education (Emotional Disturbance/Behavioural Problems) | Graduate Diploma Secondary Education | Bachelor Youth Studies | Diploma Community Services (Youth Work) | Diploma Performing Arts | Certificate IV Training and Assessment
Joanne Olsen
Masters of Science (English Education) | Bachelor Arts (English) | Certificate in Positive Education
Jack Greig
Doctor of Education (candidate) | Master of Teaching | Master of Public Policy | Bachelor of Arts
John Barkley
Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) | Graduate Diploma of Teaching
Melinda Atkinson
Bachelor of Teaching | Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts) | Bachelor of Psychological Science
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
Tanya Lancaster
Registered Psychologist | Graduate Diploma in School Counselling | Graduate Diploma Psychology | Bachelor of Education (General Primary)
Sarah Forgan
Master of Education (Communities and Social Justice) Bachelor of Education (Primary)
Kaine Cody
Bachelor of Applied Science (Human Movement) | Bachelor of Education (Junior Primary/Primary) | Master of Education (Wellbeing & Positive Mental Health)
Brenton Fletcher
Masters of Applied Positive Psychology | Bachelor of Teaching (Hons.)/Bachelor of Arts (English/Drama) | Certificate IV - Training and Assessment, Certificate III - Live Production and Technical Services
Brian Douglas Bailey
Bachelor of Education | Master of Education
Lena Streiff Kosok
Master of Education (Leading Education) | 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
Sharyn D’Souza
Master of Education: Student Wellbeing | Bachelor of Social Work
Phillip Henniker
Bachelor of Education Bachelor of Arts | Master of Educational Leadership | Certificate in School Management and Leadership
Emma Seeber
Bachelor of Commerce | Graduate Diploma of Education (Middle School Specialist) | Diploma of Montessori Education (Middle years) | Certificate IV Community Services (Community Work)
Annie Facchinetti
Master of Education (Allied School Psychology), Bachelor of Arts, Diploma of Teaching (Primary) | Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing | Post-Graduate Specialist Certificate in Curriculum Leadership
Sibel Gundogdu
Master of Teaching: Secondary | Bachelor of Human Services | Diploma of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Tasmin Murray
Bachelor's degree of Sociology and Social Policy PGCE Primary QTS
Clare Kearney
Master of Teaching (Primary) | Graduate Certificate in Religious Education | Bachelor of Exercise Science and Human Movement
Hayley Smith
Masters (Special and Additional Needs) | Post Graduate Certificate in Education (Primary) | Bachelor of Arts with Honors (Disability Studies with Inclusion)
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
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
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
Take two trainers
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)