About Us
Ali is an Accredited Social Worker (Master of Social Work – Professionally Qualifying) and holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB). She is registered with the Australian Association of Social Workers and brings extensive experience across early childhood mental health, neurodevelopment, attachment, and relational practice.
Her work is guided by a clear belief: meaningful and lasting change for children happens when the systems surrounding them are safe, informed, and responsive. Across her career, Ali has worked both therapeutically and systemically with children and young people experiencing complex trauma, mental health challenges, neurodevelopmental differences, child sexual abuse, and harmful sexual behaviours — supporting not only individual healing, but also strengthening the environments in which children live, learn, and grow.
Ali has worked across education, health, out-of-home care, kinship care, and community services, partnering with multidisciplinary teams to embed trauma-informed, attachment-focused, and developmentally responsive practice. Her advanced professional training includes Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, AIM3 Assessment for Adolescents Who Display Harmful Sexual Behaviours, and Child-Centred Play Therapy.
Her Master’s research focused on implementing Child-Centred Play Therapy in remote Aboriginal communities, exploring how therapeutic approaches can be meaningfully adapted to honour culture, context, and developmental needs. This work continues to shape her deep commitment to culturally responsive, relational care. For the past six years, her work has been deeply embedded in rural, regional, and remote communities, driven by a strong commitment to addressing service gaps and strengthening access to specialist-informed support beyond metropolitan areas.
Her work is guided by a clear and enduring purpose: to strengthen the systems that surround children and young people so they can grow, heal, and thrive — wherever they call home.
This collective has been shaped by the many little hearts and minds who have enriched her life along the way, each one quietly shaping the vision that lives here today.
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Why This Work Matters
Over the years, working alongside children, families, and professionals in rural and remote communities has shaped the way I understand what truly supports children to grow and heal.
I have seen the extraordinary strength of communities — the care, commitment, and resilience that surrounds children every day. I have also seen how often people are asked to carry complex needs without access to the knowledge, resources, or specialist support they deserve.
Working in rural and remote communities is more than just where I work — it is why this work matters so deeply to me.
Again and again, one truth becomes clear: children are shaped by the environments around them. When the systems that support them feel confident, informed, and connected, little hearts and minds are able to grow and thrive.
This work exists to strengthen those surrounding systems — bringing knowledge closer, building capability where it is needed most, and ensuring that where a child lives does not determine the quality of support they receive.
Because when we support the people and environments around children, we create the conditions for lasting change — not only for individual children, but for families, services, and whole communities over time.
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