I completed my training as a clinical psychologist in England in 1991 and come to Australia in 1994 to set up the NSW violent offender program. Since then I have worked with offenders, victims of violence, refugees and the general public. Before leaving Sydney for Port Macquarie in 2017 I worked for five years in the UNSW forensic psychology training clinic. My research interests are in desistance from crime, judicial traumatic stress, and group therapy. I’m now a conjoint senior lecturer in the UNSW school of psychology.