Mind over matter Trauma consultancy
Located in Ipswich - available nationwide via telehealth.
Mind over matter Trauma consultancy
Located in Ipswich - available nationwide via telehealth.
About Mind Over Matter Trauma Consultancy
Meet Shannon - Trauma Specialist / Director
Shannon’s relevant sector experience includes employment history across multiple integrated services throughout south-east Queensland, in fields of community engagement and development, policy writing, community recovery, family support services, settlement services, the disability sector, homelessness programs, behaviour change programs, and many more.
In addition to experiencing various positions in statutory settings such as Corrective Services, Youth Justice, Child Safety, and Federal Government.
Growing up in rural regions steeped in cattle farming, Aboriginal heritage, and familial police culture provided Shannon with real world experience of the neuropsychological and physiological pervasiveness of trauma, and the absence of universal service accessibility. The complexities of community recovery from environmental and anthropogenic disasters are of additional interest to Shannon.
Work history:
- Qld Corrective Services
- Australian Red Cross
- Department of Justice and Attorney General
- Department of Child Safety
- Somerset Regional Council
- Department of Human Services (DHS - Centrelink)
- Mercy Community
- Education Queensland
- Save the Children
- National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA)
- UnitingCare - Lifeline
Qualifications:
- Master of Environmental Systems, Markets and Climate Change
- Graduate Certificate of Neuroscience
- Bachelor of Psychological Science
- Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Service Offerings
- Psychoeducation
- Cognitive Behaviour Therapy CBT
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy DBT
- Childhood development enhancing routines
- Emotional literacy and social skills
- Emotional first aid
- Behaviour management and de-escalation strategies
- Suicide intervention and prevention practices
- Foster and kinship carer assessments
- Policy and procedure writing
- Non-clinical professional supervision
- Employee vicarious trauma prevention and reduction
- Sector mapping and referral pathway planning
Offering bespoke packages or once-off services to families, individuals, organisations, governments, and individual professionals.
Mind over matter trauma consultancy - ABN 93 419 599 137
Shannon's professional approach has always been motivated by achieving social justice and universal service accessibility. Unlike the increasing tendency of mainstream psychology pop culture, and many industry professionals, striving to pathologise discomfort, Shannon remains committed to the integrity of facing challenges head-on and ‘hugging the cactus’ to produce genuine and sustainable outcomes at individual and sector levels.
