• a Masters degree in Counselling (La Sierra University),
• a post-graduate Diploma of Management (University of Newcastle),
• and Bachelors Degrees in Social Work (Curtin University of Technology) and in Education (Avondale College of Higher Education). 

• private practice since 1999;
• management of a branch of one of Australia's largest relationship counselling organisations;
• 5 years as a case manager in community adult mental health;
• 5 years as a school counsellor at one of Perth’s oldest private secondary Colleges. 

• Former vice-chair of the Eastern Region Domestic Violence Regional Committee (2006) - now known as Domestic Violence Agencies Network (DVAN) - East Metro; 
• Active involvement in a range of Family and Domestic Violence (FDV) initiatives over several years including writing a gender-neutral abusive behaviours tool for identifying the extent of FDV taking place in a relationship (2003-present);
• Speaking at the annual WA Health Consumer's Conference on FDV initiatives at Armadale Health Service (2011);
• Writing the online staff training module on FDV for Armadale Health Service (2009; 2011);
• Delivery of FDV Screening training to staff from Maternity and Antenatal at Armadale Health Service (2009);
• Serving on the Armadale Health Service FDV Committee (2008-present);
• White Ribbon Day Committee - City of Armadale 2011.

• Group Co-facilitation: Family Abuse Integrated Response (FAIR) group for perpetrators of domestic violence (2004-5);
• Co-facilitating Art as Therapy groups with other Mead Centre Case Managers (2008);
• Other Therapeutic Group Co-facilitation: 'Bradshaw on the Family' Therapy Group (2005);  Parenting Pre-teens Group (2004);  Mum's Support Group (1993); Dad's Support Group (1993).

• Serving on the Sexual Abuse Taskforce for the Western Australian Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (3 years) including assisting in the planning of a three-day conference on Sexual Abuse in Faith Communities;
• Co-authoring Student Support Services accreditation criteria for schools in the South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventist Education;
• Training the state/regional administrators of the South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventist Education in Critical Incident Management;
• Managing a student counselling service for a private College for 5 years;
• Speaking at a New Zealand Teacher's Conference on Critical Incident Management.
  
  

• Membership on the Curtin University of Technology Vice-Chancellor's List in 2002 in recognition of being in the top 1% of students in the school of Social Work and Social Policy.
• Accredited Social Worker status from professional body 2010-present.