Simone CollierDr Simone Collier holds a Bachelor of Education (Special Education), a Master of Special Education, a Master in Child Play Therapy and a Doctor of Professional Studies. Dr Collier is an accredited Parents Under Pressure Therapist, Animal Assisted Theapist and a Play Therapist using Theraplay principles. She holds a Post-Graduate Diploma in Alcohol & Other Drugs and Mental Health and is a trained Step-by Step Assessor. Dr Collier is also trained to administer Attachment Style Interviews (ASI) and Parenting Role Interviews (PRI). Dr. Collier is a member of the Australasian Pacific Play Therapy Australia (APPTA) and a member of the Psychotherapy & Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA) and a is a Registered Child Play Therapist (RPT) and a Registered Teacher in Queensland and is an Affiliate of the Society for the Advancement of Actuarial Risk Need Assessment (SAARNA). Dr. Collier has a history of frontline and statutory child protection and out of home care experience. Simone Collier is a Special Education teacher who has taught in behaviour support and special Education and mainstream settings for a number of years. Simone worked as a Deputy Principal and as a Guidance Officer before moving in to the social work sector, initially in homelessness and domestic and family violence and then into Child Protection. Simone has a varied career working with children and young people in Residential facilities and in complex care settings as well as out-of-home care with foster and kinship carers. Simone has worked in Team Leader, Program Co-ordinator and Program Manager roles in child protection and more recently in a State Project Manager role and a Specialist Practice and Compliance position with Act for Kids, setting up programs for Individual Support packages for families and children with high and complex needs. Simone was involved in a pilot research project in partnership with the University of Southern Queensland trialling an evaluative tool to measure cumulative harm in children and young people. Simone is deeply passionate about supporting children with complex trauma and has completed her doctorate research investigating the barriers and enablers for mainstream classroom teachers to engage in professional development of trauma informed classroom pedagogy. Simone has published her first children’s book, titled Jeremy’s Changing Family which is focused on hearing the voice of a little boy who is the biological child of foster carers. The book explores the challenges and celebrations of a foster family and in particular the children of foster carers. Simone’s second children’s book is currently underway. Simone works as a lecturer and course examiner in the child abuse and children’s mental health courses as a course examiner and lecturer and is involved with a range of research projects to further the knowledge and skill base of the sector. Read More Read Less