Professional Background

I have a Diploma of Counselling and am a registered member of the Australian Counselling Association. I facilitate a weekly men’s group in the Northern Rivers of NSW. My formal counselling training is complemented by a Masters of Sustainability Studies from Curtin University, which informs my work with eco-grief and eco-anxiety -emerging and evolving fields that sit at the intersection of psychology, society, culture, and environmental reality.

Earlier in my career, I completed a qualification in teaching, specialising in high school history at the University of Hawaii and a Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs & History from the University of Colorado. I spent over twenty years teaching teenagers in high schools and in wild outdoor settings.

Alongside formal study, and facilitating a weekly men’s group, I have spent the past decade engaged in my own counselling and therapeutic work. As a father of two teenagers navigating the realities of screen culture, I also bring lived experience to my ongoing research into screen addiction, as well as the emerging fields of eco-anxiety and despair.

Together, this blend of training, leadership, and lived experience shapes a grounded, thoughtful, and deeply human way of working.