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.
Have questions? Please feel free to contact committee members via PsyCommunity direct message here or reach out to APS Member Groups via [email protected].
Secretary
Ms Raffaella Ward
Raff is an early career Psychologist with experience working with a broad range of clients. Raff is a Team Leader managing multiple teams of staff from diverse professional backgrounds across regional Victoria. Her teams deliver group and individual assessment and interventions to forensic clients in the community, specialising in alcohol and other drugs (AOD) work. Raff spent several years working in male prisons, delivering clinical work and managing a multidisciplinary team.
Raff has worked with complex trauma, drug and alcohol use, offenders, victim/survivors and a broad range of other presentations. Raff has experience with individual and group facilitation; private and public practice.
She is an enthusiastic member of the CSA IG and a passionate advocate for victim/survivors and perpetrators of CSA.
Treasurer
Ms Samantha Munslow-Davies
Sam is a provisional psychologist working towards general registration in 2023, after completing a Master of Professional Psychology in 2021. She has been working in private practice since graduation with Let’s Talk Counselling and Psychological Services. Sam works with a range of clients but has specialist training and experience within the area of child sexual assault and sexual trauma. Sam works as part of the facilitation team running a community-based treatment program for child sexual abuse and child exploitation material offending. She has experience working with the general population, victims/survivors, and offenders both inside and out of prison.