Deb Mountjoy

Throughout my career I have specialized in the trauma and mental health fields working with young people, adults and families. My training as a Family Therapist extended my thinking and practice from an individual focus to a systemic approach working with individuals in the context of relationships and their world. I have extensive experience as a Family Therapist and leadership roles where I have coached, supervised and trained professionals working with young people and their families. I have thrived in senior clinical roles where I led teams, shaped clinical practice, built stakeholder relationships and influenced change in organisation culture and practice.

• Clinical membership of Australian Association of Family Therapy
• Current Victorian Drivers Licence
• Current WWC
• Current National Police Check

• Victorian Police
• Barwon Multi-Disciplinary Centre
• Fiji Womens’ Crisis Centre
• WorkSafe
• VicRoads
• Child Protection DHS
• Anglicare
• Womens’ Health West
• Baptist Union of Australia

• Headspace website content for family, 2020
• SAFV Centre Client Services Practice Framework, 2020
• SAFV Centre policies, practice guidelines, submissions, reports, 2017 – 2020
• Pilot project report: Reflective Practice & Mental Health in Vic Police, 2018
• Submission for Therapeutic Family Violence Interventions, 2019
• Submission to ‘Royal Commission into Institutional Childhood Sexual Abuse’, 2014

• Working with Family, 2023, 2024
• Single Session Thinking (Train the Trainer), 2021, 2022
• ‘Trauma and the Brain’, 2016, 2017
• ‘Relational Trauma: Working with Families’, 2014-2016
• ‘Keeping Mothers in the Loop’, 2009 -2016
• ‘Responding to Trauma’ (TAC and Worksafe Victoria), 2015, 2017
• ‘Working with Trauma’, ‘Kiribati (AusAid), 2015
• ‘Counselling Skills’, ‘Trauma & the Brain’, Vicarious Trauma’: Fiji, 2011, 2012
• ‘Responding to Trauma’ (‘Relationships Australia’), 2011
• ‘Advanced level: Working with Sexual Assault’, 2006
• ‘Understanding Offender Thinking and Behaviour’, 2006

• Headspace Forum; Host of Panel ‘Family Inclusive Practice’, 2024
• Presenting elective at SST Conference, Italy, 2023
• Facilitator of ‘Hypothetical’: ‘A Client’s Journey within the Multi-Disciplinary Centre’ (MDC Forum), 2017
• ‘Working with Families in the Aftermath of Family Violence’ Making Lives Better: Connections Uniting Care Conference, 2016
• ‘Violence Against Women in the Pacific Conference’ presentation in Fiji, 2013
• ‘Working Collaboratively’ Australian Association of Family Therapy Conference, 2010

• Single Session Thinking Conference, Italy, 2023
• International Youth Mental Health Conference, Denmark, 2022
• Marumali Training for Non-First Nations Service Providers, 2021
• Implementation: The Centre for Implementation, 2021
• Aboriginal Suicide Prevention Conference, 2020
• Internal Family Systems and EMDR training; Bruce Hersey, 2019
• EMDR and Attachment; Ana Gomez, 2018
• Duluth and Beyond: Developing Co-ordinated Response, 2018
• ‘Children and Mothers in Mind’: Child Development Institute, 2018
• Aboriginal Cultural Training: Understanding Trauma; Strong Spirit, 2017
• Supervision Masterclass Reflective Practice in Supervision (Daphne Hewson), 2017
• Recognizing and Resolving Traumatic Stress: (Bessel Van der Kolk), 2016
• Conflict Transformation through Conferencing, 2015
• Ending Violence Against Women National Conference, Fiji, 2015
• Outcomes for Children in Out of Home Care, 2015
• Child Trauma Conference (Aust. Childhood Foundation), 2014
• Clinical Supervision Training (Susan Lewis), 2013
• Family Systems Institute Conferences, 2010 - 2013
• Completion of EMDR Level One training, 2004, 2016