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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Treasurer
Mrs Elisabeth Akioka
Service Manager, New Street Hunter New England
- Masters in Educational and Developmental Psychology (QUT).
- Masters in Clinical Psychology (CSU).
- New Street is a NSW Health service that provides therapeutic services for children and young people aged 10 to 17 years who have engaged in harmful sexual behaviours towards others, and their families and caregivers. New Street Services work with the young person to assist them to understand, acknowledge, take responsibility for and cease the harmful sexual behaviour.
- Full supervisor status.
- Areas of therapeutic interest – attachment (parenting, personality development, intervention focus), trauma (esp interaction with attachment and development) and assessment (all of it),
- Areas of research interest – parenting, motivation, visual / cognitive perception and abnormal psychosexual development (development of harmful sexual behaviours).... and k-pop fandoms
Committee Member
Dr Warren Bartik
Phone: 02 6773 3743
Dr Warren Bartik is a Clinical Psychologist and Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology with the University of New England (UNE), NSW, Australia. Warren is based in regional NSW at Armidale and has worked in the health and welfare sector primarily with children and young people for over 35 years. Warren completed his PhD with UNE in the area of rural youth suicide bereavement and suicide prevention and postvention remain key research interests. Warren is also especially interested in opportunities for mental health promotion, prevention and early intervention with rural young people and in rural populations in general and also the application of telehealth and e-health for rural populations. Warren continues to maintain a part-time rural private practice that also provides clinical support to NGO’s working with young people, but also the spectrum of private practice clients.
Committee Member
Ms Marisa Barnes
Marisa works for Hunter New England Local Health District as the Northern Psychology Professional Lead and as a Psychologist in the Child & Family Allied Health Team at Tamworth Community Health. Marisa has been working in the Public Sector for 15 years. Marisa has also worked in private practice locally. Marisa is the current Chair of the New England Northwest APS Branch, and the Deputy Chair of the NSW Branch Committee. Marisa’s clinical interests are primarily in paediatrics, neurodevelopmental disorders, strengths-based approaches for trauma, and clinical supervision.