Marianna Jaross Since I started studying psychology, my training included lab-reports, statistics, cognitive psychology, and the brain. After having worked across several sectors over the last decade; my interests have pivoted towards trauma-informed and humanistic care, understanding the systems in which we operate; and how we are going to create services, environments, and attitudes that actively promote healing, lessen isolation, and help us to survive the challenges of th

Marianna Jaross My first placement when completing a Master of Counselling and Psychotherapy was co-facilitating a Men’s Behaviour Change Program in a group setting; as well as working with men individually who were involved with Corrections. Often, this was because they were choosing to use violence and coercive control towards the women closest to them. This client group was usually mandated to see me or participate in the group. I was in my early twenties at the time, and

Marianna Jaross I started working as a counsellor when I was twenty-three, and became a psychologist years later. I have taken a break from my registration as a psychologist for the last few months and have been thinking about the field, my training, and the direction we are heading in collectively. Personally, I think one of my best and worst traits is my curiosity: Instead of following a straight and narrow path to complete my training as a psychologist, I deviated several