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About Lenice

Lenice is an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker who has worked and studied in the mental health field for over twenty years. She is Co-Director of a relational reflective practice training service, Relate and Reflect, and currently works in private practice where she sees older adolescents and adults seeking mental health care and psychotherapy. 

 

Lenice has worked in women's crisis accommodation, tertiary mental health and community health settings. She has experience in a variety of roles and programs from acute to recovery orientated care with adolescents, adults and families in Melbourne and Western Australia. Her direct practice roles have included discipline specific, specialist and leadership responsibilities. In addition to evidence based mental health care, she has training in focused psychological strategies and therapeutic interventions. Many of her past roles involved collaborating across sectors. This has taught her about the importance of systemic, humanistic, relational and collaborative practice.  

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Lenice has always loved learning and being in reflective practice environments. She has worked as a seminar leader and guest lecturer in a Masters of Social Work course. Her roles in public mental health included providing supervision, consultation, training and mentoring in mental health for other professionals. In the past eight years she has worked privately as a supervisor and trainer with helping professionals from various discipline backgrounds. Lenice enjoys getting to know and support people in their work through the supervision process.

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Formal Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Arts (Sociology), University of Melbourne 

  • Bachelor of Social Work (Honours), University of Melbourne

  • Masters of Public Health (Program Evaluation), University of Melbourne

  • Accredited Mental Health Social Worker, Australian Association of Social Workers

Focused Psychological strategies
& Therapy Training

Lenice has worked with a range of presenting mental health, developmental and substance use issues. Along with a relational, humanistic approach to practice she is trained in focused therapeutic modalities, that include:

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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Dialectical Behavioural Therapy, Mentalisation Based Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Behavioural Family Therapy, Cognitive Analytic Therapy, EMDR and Somatic Psychotherapy. 

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