Meet The Team

Matt is a Nurse Practitioner and Psychotherapist. He works with individuals and communities who have common human experiences that are often labelled as psychosis or schizophrenia. Within the psychotherapy relationship, Matt helps people develop an understanding of what a good life means in the context of their life events and relationships, and explores how relational psychotherapy can contribute to love and justice in the here and now. Initially trained in psychodynamic psychotherapy, he now integrates existential, Buddhist and humanistic approaches plus learnings from Indigenous concepts into his work.

 

Founder and Director of Humane Clinic and Co-Director of the Just Listening Community charity, Matt teaches nationally and internationally and is a well-respected keynote speaker and advisor/consultant. He developed the concepts of Dissociachotic, Suicide Narratives and Just Listening and has directed various therapeutic-community projects using these concepts. His work has been recognised through published research, the Australian Mental Health Nurse of the Year award, and a finalist position in the Aster Guardians global nursing award.

Rory is a Social Worker and Psychotherapist at Humane Clinic and Co-Director of the Just Listening Community charity. He specialises in working compassionately with people who experience psychosis, contemplation of suicide, or other often misunderstood expressions of distress and survival. Rory’s practice is guided by radical Social Work principles, Dissociachotic theory, his love of human beings, and his disdain for injustice in our society.

 

He holds a Bachelor of Arts (History, Political Science) from the University of Western Australia and a Master of Social Work from Flinders University. Co-author of the Suicide Narratives approach, Rory facilitates training and education nationally and internationally alongside his Humane Clinic colleagues. He has designed an advocacy approach and decision-making capacity assessment tool that assists people subject to mental health treatment orders ensure that their rights under the Mental Health Act are upheld at legal hearings.

Berny is a Psychotherapist at Humane Clinic and Co-Director of the Just Listening Community charity. She brings over 20 years of experience in the mental-health field, supervising and supporting teams of workers and volunteers across diverse settings. Working alongside clients—individually as well as in activity-based, therapeutic group and community environments—she has extensive experience and a strong passion for supporting people who have experiences of psychosis, extreme states, voices, visions and suicidality.

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Berny holds a PG in Family and Systemic Therapy and a Diploma in Counselling. She is also trained in the Maastricht approach to hearing voices and completed the Humane Approaches to Psychotherapy course and supervision training. Berny co-facilitates training in Humane Clinic approaches nationally and internationally.