Experience

Sexuality and Sexual Health

• Lesbian, gay, and bisexual health and lifestyles
• Diverse gender identity (to use a broad heading)
• Outreach to identifying and non-identifying same sex attracted men  
• HIV and STIs, including prevention and health promotion
• Health, law, and needle syringe outreach to workers in the sex industry  

Counselling

• Relationships: family/friends, couples, and singles
• Youth with life and Developmental Challenges
• Self-esteem and Self-confidence issues
• Bullying and discrimination
• Abuse
• Employment-related
• Issues around aging
• Drug and Alcohol
• Other lifestyles factors that cause difficulties

Community

• Volunteer team leader of the Queensland Prostate and other cancers support group
• Collaborative work with multi-cultural and indigenous communities
• Isolated individuals and communities (Regional)
• Domestic Violence
• Aging individuals
• Health promotion in prisions 
• Alcohol and other drugs
• Youth
• After-school childcare
• Young offenders
• Tutoring in community services and youth work

Teaching and tutoring in ‘Community services’ and ‘Youth Work’

• Teaching adults in Community Services and Youth diplomas
• Tutoring people from non-English speaking backgrounds
• Coordination of health promotion programs (on-line/Internet outreach, 1800 Men’s Sexual Health phone line, and Men’s Health retreats).
• Training volunteers, consultants, and professionals in the medical and health sector in lifestyles within sexual orientation, relationships and self-esteem and living with a Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI).
• Training Queensland Police in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) sexuality/life-style issues related to diverse sexuality and gender and discrimination  
• School-based training in sexual and reproductive health
• School and university-based workshops on sexual health and reproduction
• Facilitation and development of community workshops
• Vocational trainer in Literacy, Numeracy, and life skills to 15 – 19 year-old young offenders

Mental Health

• Support work with people living with severe mental health conditions and complex needs (Partners in Recovery)
• One on one support worker for individuals with lifelong mental health conditions
• NDIS registered support worker.
• University of Queensland Mental Health Champions Network Coordinator
• Trained instructor for Mental Health First Aid Australia
• Trained over 400 staff and students in Mental Health First Aid at Queensland University

Qualifications and Professional Development

As well as holding a Masters degree in Health Science in Sexual Therapies, majoring in Intersex and Gender-Diversity, and a Bachelor of Social Sciences degree in Human Services, I continue to update and supplement my skills and knowledge across a range of disciplines, including Counselling, Health, and Community issues and trends. Among these are:

Queensland Health

• Conflict resolution
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
• Motivational Interviewing
• Workshop Facilitation Skills

University of Queensland (School of Medicine Workshops)

• Hepatitis C & Mental Health
• HIV Medicine

University of the Sunshine Coast

• Health Promotion Foundations and Principles
• Teaching the Health Syllabus: The Health Promotion Approach
• Health Promotion Need Assessment and Planning
• Health Implementation and Evaluation

Queensland Association for Healthy Communities

• ‘What We Don’t See’: Raising awareness of issues that affect young people exploring their Sexuality and Gender Identity

Queensland Alcohol and Drug Research and Education Centre (QADREC)

• Needle and Syringe Program (NSP), Needle-Exchange License

Family Planning Queensland (Workshops)

• Out with Homophobia
• HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C and Sexual Health Promotion with Young People

Tafe

• Level 1 Inclusive Training

Albion Street Centre, Sydney

• HIV/AIDS In Developing Countries

Other

• Applied Behavioural Sciences Course