Allana completed a Master of Psychology (Forensic) at Bond University in 2014 and is currently employed as the Manager, Clinical Intervention at Ravenhall Correctional Centre. Allana’s research to date has included examination of needs, treatment issues and the barriers and facilitators to effective rehabilitation for offenders with intellectual disability, as well as the examination of gender specific risk factors related to childhood trauma and offending. Allana’s experience includes leadership and direct service delivery with offender populations, including youth and adults, as well as treatment program design, research, and evaluation. Allana has worked with male and female offender populations, across minimum, medium and maximum-security correctional settings, as well as within community settings, across two jurisdictions. Allana is passionate about promoting change within correctional practice, to align with best practice principles of offender management and rehabilitation.

Claire is a clinical psychologist and forensic registrar; currently employed with Odyssey Victoria, and contracting for a range of services completing family assessments and supporting victim/survivors of sexual violence.

She has various experience across the forensic, mental health, alcohol and other drugs, disability, and homelessness settings. Her research areas of interest include dual diagnosis (addiction and mental health) and family violence, where her doctoral thesis validated the Spousal Assault Risk Assessment Guide (SARA).

Nathan Akoka is a provisional psychologist, studying the Doctor of Psychology (Clinical and Forensic Psychology) program at Swinburne University.
Nathan has completed rotations within acute inpatient forensic hospital wards, providing assessment and intervention to forensic patients. He has also co-facilitated DBT Comprehensive programs, and recently started working with schema therapy programs. Nathan’s doctoral thesis focuses on dimensional of assessing personality dysfunction in substance use treatment settings and understanding how schema therapy constructs may map onto novel personality assessment tools. Clinically, he has worked across the private and public Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) sector as an AOD Clinician providing individual counselling, group work and assessments to forensic and voluntary clients. Nathan currently works as a Youth AOD Worker at YSAS and research assistant at Orygen, and Sessional Academic in psychology at Deakin and Swinburne.