Western Australian Committee Information
Below are details of the current committee and vacancies. The APS is always on the look out for members who are interested in joining a Member Group committee, to help support and promote members, the profession, and the APS. For more information about joining a Member Groups committee, click here.
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Chair
Dr Dominique Cleary
Dominique is an early-career Clinical Psychologist, who completed her Masters and PhD at The University of Western Australia. She has worked clinically in a range of settings including community and hospital settings, with a range of populations. She is currently working for WA health in the perinatal and women's health space, where she enjoys working with a diverse range of patients and presenting concerns. She has a particular interest in perinatal mental health and early parent-infant interactions, and her PhD research investigated the early developmental period of infants with a family history of autism, the parental experience of second time parents who have a child diagnosed with an autism, and the potential of an early parent-mediated intervention focussed on working with parents to best support their baby's early social and communication abilities.
Chair-Elect
Dr Trevor Mazzucchelli
Trevor Mazzucchelli is an Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology at Curtin University, Australia, and an Honorary Associate Professor at the Parenting and Family Support Centre at The University of Queensland. Over the past 30 years, he has held several clinical positions, conducted research in the area of parenting children with disability, and written many articles on this and related topics for scientific journals and publications. He is a co-author of Stepping Stones Triple P, has developed programs to help parents of children with disability prevent and manage commonly encountered behavioural and emotional problems, and trained practitioners in more than 10 countries to support parents in using these programs. His research interests are broad and include treatment outcome evaluations, mechanisms of behavioural and cognitive change, self-management, and how individuals and families can achieve optimal levels of functioning under both stressful and normal circumstances.
Committee Member
Miss Talia Holland
Talia is a Registered Psychologist having recently completed her Master of Clinical Psychology, building on a First-Class Honours degree and a Professional Master’s in Psychology, in which she graduated as dux of her inaugural cohort.
She has diverse clinical experience across private practice, university counselling, government, and specialist services. Her work spans the lifespan - ranging from end-of-life support for older adults to paediatric, adolescent, and young adult mental health - with particular experience in eating disorders and complex clinical presentations.
Beyond her clinical roles, Talia has contributed to academia as both a lecturer and tutor, and has served as a faculty board member.
Alongside her postgraduate training, she volunteers within this college and works with the Butterfly Foundation Helpline.
Student Representative
Dr Ker-ni Vivienne Heng Rigney