This podcast features interviews with social workers in Sydney, Australia, showcasing diverse areas of practice, social work stories, successes, and challenges,...
In this episode I speak with Evanthea, a Social Worker and Counsellor with experience in child protection, out of home care, disability, and therapeutic roles. She currently works as the Director of her business, Budding Resilience Therapies, specialising in supporting individuals with complex psychosocial needs and offering experienced practitioners who have a multifaceted approach to supporting their clients as they navigate multiple systems. Links to resources mentioned in this week’s episode:Kids Helpline -https://kidshelpline.com.au/Budding Resilience Therapies -https://www.buddingresilience.com/The Yoga Impact Charity -https://www.yogaimpactcharity.com/Evanthea’s research assessment; How job stress impacts child protection -https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/research-assessment-how-job-stress-impacts-child-magnisallis-jp/Eddie’s practice -https://www.leadwithlove.com.au/Evanthea’s podcast System Error -https://open.spotify.com/show/7e88NbL8jEODaUntOx9i58Evanthea on Ashton’s podcast Becoming an AMHSW -https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/episode-18-evanthea/id1642275191?i=1000651753280Bruce Perry’s Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics -https://www.attachmenttraumanetwork.org/neurosequential-model-of-therapeutics-nmt/Bessel van der Kolk, how yoga helps heal trauma -https://kripalu.org/resources/how-yoga-helps-heal-trauma-qa-bessel-van-der-kolkThis episode's transcript can be viewed here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CUzcOvkRi0V72VZvb49dtDY4thycBl6783r_2NmRsog/edit?usp=sharing
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Episode 128: Mish
In this episode I speak with Mish, a plural system that is non-binary, queer, disabled, and neurodivergent, as well as beng awarded the 2024 Australian Social Worker of the Year. As a social worker of colour, their practice is grounded in identity affirming anti-colonial and anti-oppressive practices from which they have built their skillset of supporting people through a range of therapeutic modalities. Mish is the chair of The Iceberg Foundation, a mental health charity for BIPOC, queer and neurodivergent humans and is the principal practitioner at Niram, a BIPOC focussed EMDR practice.
Links to resources mentioned in this week’s episode:
The Iceberg FOundation - https://www.theicebergfoundation.org/
GenWest - https://www.genwest.org.au/
Rainbow Giving Australia - https://rainbowgiving.org.au/news/the-aurora-group-and-giveout-announce-merger-as-one-million-dollars-distributed-for-lgbtqia-communities
Linda Thai - https://www.linda-thai.com/
Queering EMDR Therapy - https://www.instituteforcreativemindfulness.com/publishing/queering-emdr-therapy/
Zoe Bell Gender Collective - https://zbgc.org.au/
In Our Blood TV series - https://iview.abc.net.au/show/in-our-blood
The Oasis Movie and Life After the Oasis - https://theoasismovie.com.au/
Decolonizing Therapy podcast episode - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/decolonizing-therapy-a-movement-an-interview/id1310770477?i=1000633816868
My Grandmother’s Hands podcast episode - https://soundcloud.com/librofm/my-grandmothers-handsracialized-trauma-the-pathway-to-mending-by-resmaa-menakem
Jamie Marich’s Dissociation Made Simple - https://www.penguin.com.au/books/dissociation-made-simple-9781623177218
This episode's transcript can be viewed here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VGdbAxpZsnywlOsK3L9Xf19QabZB82SW0UcaA_5TcQU/edit?usp=sharing
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Episode 127: Kimberly
In this episode I speak with Kimberly, who has 25 years of practice experience working alongside individuals, families and communities, responding to interpersonal, institutional, and colonial violence. She teaches in various universities nationally and internationally and provides supervision to social workers and therapists. Kimberly lives and works on Yuin country and identifies as a non-Aboriginal settler migrant with white privileges and indigenous ancestry from Mexico.
Links to resources mentioned in this week’s episode:
AbSec - https://absec.org.au/
Kimberly’s article: Restoring children from out-of-home care: insights from an Aboriginal-led community forum - https://research.monash.edu/en/publications/restoring-children-from-out-of-home-care-insights-from-an-aborigi
UNSW’s Bring Them Home, Keep Them Home - https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2022/10/bring-them-home--keep-them-home--reunifying-aboriginal-families
The Moogai film - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-30/the-moogai-aboriginal-horror-movie-jon-bell-shari-sebbens/100178202
The Last Daughter film - https://thelastdaughter.com.au/
After the Apology film - https://aftertheapology.com/
Power series on Netflix - https://www.netflix.com/title/81416254
The upEND podcast - https://upendmovement.org/podcast/
Centre for Response-Based Practice - https://www.responsebasedpractice.com/
Cathy Richardson’s substack - https://catherinerichardson.substack.com/
Vikki Reynolds - https://vikkireynolds.ca/
Discourse Analysis and Psychotherapy article - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256437848_Discourse_analysis_and_psychotherapy_A_critical_review
Insight Exchange - https://www.insightexchange.net/
This episode's transcript can be viewed here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LHVWdaPKN3I9K0uU25gTJRgW60rCAVUSRd9rUhR7whw/edit?usp=sharing
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Episode 126: Loren
In this episode I speak with Loren, who has predominantly worked within the domestic, family and sexual violence sector. Loren discusses how her career has intersected with other disciplines along the way and how these experiences have shaped how she practices as a social worker. Loren currently works as Senior Practitioner supervising an interstate team supporting victim-survivors of financial abuse with coaching.
Links to resources mentioned in this week’s episode:
UNSW’s Tackling economic and financial abuse linked to domestic and family violence - https://www.unsw.edu.au/news/2023/01/tackling-economic-and-financial-abuse-linked-to-domestic-and-fam
Centre for Women’s Economic Security - https://cwes.org.au/ and https://www.financialsafety.org.au/
Economic Abuse Reference Group - https://earg.org.au/
MoneyMinded program - https://www.anz.com.au/about-us/esg/financial-wellbeing/moneyminded/
NSW Health sexual assault services - https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/parvan/sexualassault/Pages/info-sexual-assault-victims.aspx
Marrickville Legal Centre’s Savvy Finance program - https://www.mlc.org.au/savvy-finance/
Commonwealth Banks’ financial abuse resource centre - https://www.commbank.com.au/support/financial-abuse.html?ei=resources
Good Shepherd’s financial independence hub - https://goodshep.org.au/services/fih/
Berry Street’s MoneyMinded program - https://www.berrystreet.org.au/learning-and-resources/our-training-and-consultancy-services/moneyminded
This episode's transcript can be viewed here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/13olBfUXrECy1kLoCGj5lhkC50Tp8gS8tKkF-8O6ck0w/edit?usp=sharing
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Episode 125: Josie
In this episode I speak with Dr Josie McSkimming, who has practised in a wide range of settings for over 40 years, including hospital social work, inter-country adoption, post-adoption services, drug and alcohol treatment, individual and couples therapy and adult mental health. In addition to her private practice providing therapy and clinical supervision, Josie is an adjunct lecturer at the University of NSW and the author of two books, ‘Leaving Christian Fundamentalism and the Reconstruction of Identity’ and ‘Gutsy Girls’, a memoir to be released early 2025.
Links to resources mentioned in this week’s episode:
Writings by Michael White, courtesy of the Dulwich Centre - https://dulwichcentre.com.au/writings-by-michael-white/
Master of Narrative Therapy and Community Work - https://dulwichcentre.com.au/training-in-narrative-therapy/masters-program-in-narrative-therapy-and-community-work/
Josie’s memoir “Gutsy Girls” - https://www.uqp.com.au/books/gutsy-girls
Josie’s book “Leaving Christian Fundamentalism and the Reconstruction of Identity” - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781315591926/leaving-christian-fundamentalism-reconstruction-identity-josie-mcskimming
Master of Counselling Social Work at UNSW - https://www.unsw.edu.au/study/postgraduate/master-of-counselling-social-work
This episode's transcript can be viewed here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZSihUMKK6udoa8BmmbkkuozNhdjESYkUFxb16tz4xDo/edit?usp=sharing
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