Powerful People are Prone to Powerful Illnesses
The team at Esus Centre have the knowledge, skills and commitment to help you re-direct that power towards a brighter future.
Esus provides hope and a path to recovery.
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Vash is a leading psychiatrist with extensive experience in both inpatient and outpatient treatment of eating disorders. She is the Medical Director and Founder of Esus Centre, with a clear vision for excellence in eating disorder treatment. Her clinical passion is based on assertive management of eating disorders with expectations for full recovery, to avoid many years of illness at great cost to the individual, family and society.
Vash Singh
Medical Director and Founder
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Susie has over 20 years of primary care experience and more than 10 years of mental health and eating disorder subspeciality experience, including Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT), Family-Based Therapy for eating disorders and youth-friendly doctor training. Susie is a Director of Esus Centre and leads the GP services.
Susan Cann
Director and GP Lead
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Kerry is a Clinical Psychologist who has focused exclusively on the management, coordination and delivery of eating disorder treatment for over a decade, working with individuals and families to facilitate recovery-focused treatment. Kerry is a credentialed eating disorder clinician and a Board Approved Supervisor. She is a Director of Esus Centre and its Therapy Lead.
Kerry Mairs
Director and Therapy Lead
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Rebecca is a Registered Nurse with a post-graduate qualification in Health Leadership and over a decade of experience in supporting patients and their families living with eating disorders. She has effectively led teams in both public and private sectors to deliver excellence in eating disorder treatment.
Rebecca Godin
Director of Nursing
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Nicole is Director of Operations and a Senior Registered Psychologist with extensive experience in working collaboratively with individuals and families across a range of mental health presentations and specifically those with eating disorders. She utilises evidence-based treatment modalities, including Schema Therapy, EMDR, Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy, Family-Based Therapy, and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT).
Nicole Clements
Director of Operations and Senior Psychologist
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Fiona is an Accredited Practising Dietitian with significant experience in providing evidence-informed care to support individuals with eating disorders towards recovery. Fiona has worked in both inpatient and outpatient settings and brings over a decade of experience in eating disorder treatment and two decades of experience as a dietitian. She is a credentialed eating disorder clinician and is committed to working with individuals and their families to facilitate nutritional restoration and develop a healthy relationship with food.
Fiona Salter
Dietetic Lead
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Vicki is a Clinical Psychologist with extensive experience in the coordination, delivery and evaluation of group Schema Therapy programs. In addition to individual treatment, Vicki’s clinical experience encompasses numerous treatment modalities and more recently includes the development of a Schema Therapy program specifically for individuals with eating disorders.
Victoria Moir
Program Coordinator - Schema Therapy
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Georgia is a Clinical Psychologist with significant experience in eating disorder treatment working across both inpatient and outpatient services in Australia and the UK. She works with complex comorbid diagnoses and is committed to transparent and collaborative multidisciplinary treatment for individuals with eating disorders and their families.
Georgia Henderson
Program Coordinator - RO-DBT
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Virginia is a Senior Mental Health Occupational Therapist with an extensive background in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Schema Therapy, and attachment-informed EMDR. She is a co-convenor of the Adult ADHD Mental Health Professionals Network and an accredited trainer in Working with People with borderline personality disorder through the Australian BPD Foundation National Training Strategy. Virginia has significant experience in the treatment of complex mental health issues and emotion regulation difficulties.
Virginia Pulker
OT Lead & DBT Skills Program Coordinator
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Laura is a registered Social Worker with an Advanced Diploma in Psychology. She has extensive experience working in mental health settings, and a background in the coordination and development of group therapy programs. She is committed to innovation in the delivery of therapy programs to enhance treatment outcomes for individuals and their families.
Laura Engel
Program Coordinator - Soma Programs
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Shannon is a Psychologist who has experience in utilising evidence-based treatments to facilitate recovery for adolescents and adults experiencing eating disorders. She has worked in private settings for two years and has demonstrated skills in supporting individuals and their families to navigate the challenges of overcoming eating disorders.
Shannon De Luca
Psychologist
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Kirasha is an Accredited Practising Dietitian with significant experience working across multiple healthcare settings internationally and in Australia. She has demonstrated clinical expertise in the treatment of eating disorders, including advanced bariatric surgery medical nutrition therapy. Kirasha is a credentialed eating disorder clinician. In addition to weight and shape-oriented disorders, she is committed to the development and implementation of effective treatment for individuals with Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID).
Kirasha Maharaj
Food Services Manager and Senior Dietitian
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Sally is a Senior Physiotherapist with eating disorder experience in both inpatient and outpatient treatment. She brings discipline-specific knowledge and expertise to the treatment of eating disorders and is focused on developing and implementing movement and activity modules in our day patient group programs.
Sally Partington
Senior Physiotherapist
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Ella is a Registered Mental Health Nurse with a demonstrated commitment to supporting the physical and psychological needs of individuals throughout their treatment. She is experienced in operating as part of a multidisciplinary team and works across both referral assessments and the delivery of day patient programs.
Ella Menzies
Referral Assessment Service
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Sam is a GP who has experience in both hospital and GP settings. He has a strong interest in mental health, eating disorders, ADHD and chronic disease, and has trained in GP-based psychological strategies. Sam is passionate about providing collaborative, whole-of-patient care and treats patients of all ages.
Samuel Ognenis
GP
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Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor Tracey Wade has worked as a clinician and researcher in eating disorders for over 30 years. She is the director of the Flinders University Institute for Mental Health and Wellbeing, the Blackbird Initiative and the Flinders University Services for Eating Disorders (FUSED). She has cowritten 3 books and has over 270 publications in peer reviewed journals.
Tracey Wade
Research Consultant