Social Work Spotlight Yasmine Loupis

Hi and welcome to Social Work Spotlight, where I showcase different areas of the profession each episode. I’m your host, Yasmine Loupis, and today's guest is Cass, a respectful child protection social worker and supervisor with a therapeutic mindset, committed to addressing social issues through innovative approaches and challenging injustices with kindness and empathy. Cass is dedicated to promoting inclusivity and advocacy for marginalised communities through systemic change.



Links to resources mentioned in this week’s episode:


Winangay resources for Aboriginal kids and families - https://www.winangay.com/resources


Kevin Campbell’s Family Finding and Family Seeing - https://www.familyfinding.org/our-team & https://www.familyseeing.org/about


The Last Daughter film - https://www.thelastdaughter.com.au/


After the Apology film - https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-program/after-the-apology/1333274179947





This episode's transcript can be viewed here: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yenw8UAoUc_iGd7KbqyMXOO9mAYgPCoSK02sakvUxlg/edit?usp=sharing


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Hi and welcome to Social Work Spotlight, where I showcase different areas of the profession each episode. I’m your host, Yasmine Loupis, and today's guest is Dean, a dedicated and compassionate counsellor who specialises in client-centred therapies for both individuals and couples. Dean is a social worker with additional training in nursing, mental health and addiction, as well as being an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker. Dean specialises in anxiety, depression and addiction, with a talent for helping clients quit smoking, drinking and other substances.



Links to resources mentioned in this week’s episode:


Open Arms veterans and families counselling service - https://www.openarms.gov.au/


Lives Lived Well - https://www.liveslivedwell.org.au/


Dean’s website - https://www.apollocounsellingservices.com.au/about


Dean’s LinkedIn profile - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dean-bell-443531191





This episode's transcript can be viewed here: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QzarWfFdhWZCk3wagV_5r7dfCO1E2vKfXWjWOoQL-Gs/edit?usp=sharing


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Hi and welcome to Social Work Spotlight, where I showcase different areas of the profession each episode. I’m your host, Yasmine Loupis, and today's guest is Monique, a dynamic and innovative Social Worker specialising in disability social work under the NDIS funding system. Monique provides therapeutic and capacity building services to the neurodivergent community and professional supervision and training through her private practice "Our Future Focus" in Brisbane. Monique is a passionate clinical supervisor, trainer and avid encourager of social workers who want to learn more about effective and evidence based disability social work.



Links to resources mentioned in this week’s episode:


Monique’s business ‘Our Future Focus’ - https://ourfuturefocus.com.au/


NDIS Social Workers Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1570529893102681


Reframing Autism - https://reframingautism.org.au/


Training with Monique Mitchelson - https://moniquemitchelson.com.au/373-2/


Divergent Futures - https://www.divergentfutures.com/


The Neurodivergent Woman podcast - https://moniquemitchelson.com.au/podcast/





This episode's transcript can be viewed here: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kCgVaRE_D7PUOp97VcNjfI_dSimtXIDtbHNsG7SIZT0/edit?usp=sharing


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Hi and welcome to Social Work Spotlight, where I showcase different areas of the profession each episode. I’m your host, Yasmine Loupis, and today's guest is Victoria, a Social Worker and Peer Worker living and working on Stolen Kaurna Land in Adelaide, South Australia). As a recent Master’s of Social Work graduate she has been active in the Youth Mental Health sector, with a passion for working collaboratively with Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ people, and those with intersectional identities.



Links to resources mentioned in this week’s episode:


Youth Peer Work training - https://www.orygen.org.au/Training/Resources/General-resources/Toolkits/Youth-peer-work


LELAN (SA Lived Experience Leadership & Advocacy Network) - https://www.lelan.org.au/ledge-intro-leadership-modules-home/


So you want to talk about race? (book by Ijeoma Oluo)


Pease, B. (2010). Undoing Privilege: Unearned Advantage in a Divided World. Zed Books.


Bennett, B., & Green, S. (2019). Our voices: Aboriginal social work (Second edition)


Building service capacity to work with LGBTIQ+ forcibly displaced people - https://fdpn.org.au/lgbtiq-settlement-training/


LGBTIQA+ Multilingual Terminology, co-designed by multilingual LGBTQ+ people and linguists and translators - https://www.rainbowterminology.org/


Stories untold podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/790pdThflCpxh2aF9TQl9O?si=FPGhmyttQtuRaHMklTHMeQ


You Can’t Ask That (ABC TV documentary) - https://iview.abc.net.au/collection/979


Race Matters - values and complexities of race, culture and identity - https://fbiradio.com/podcast/racematters/


Elliot Page’s Gaycation TV documentary series - https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-series/gaycation/season-1



This episode's transcript can be viewed here: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1suElT4_FFinSGkGCflyoRSVxuF2indQ_2kaKCtLlN24/edit?usp=sharing


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Hi and welcome to Social Work Spotlight, where I showcase different areas of the profession each episode. I’m your host, Yasmine Loupis, and today's guest is Sharon, who has worked as a caseworker, groupwork coordinator, child and family counsellor and primary school counsellor and is now an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker in private practice. She provides supervision to other social workers and students, is trained as a Systemic Couple and Family Therapist and facilitates both standard and youth Mental Health First Aid training.



Links to resources mentioned in this week’s episode:


Kate and Emma novel (Monica Dickens) - https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/kate-and-emma-9781448203109/


Mindsight (Dr Dan Siegel) - https://drdansiegel.com/mindsight/





This episode's transcript can be viewed here: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z5IlEDVdoDAxhIZDwZ3GUzT9-S8m_AxybrSiqvtgki8/edit?usp=sharing


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Hi and welcome to Social Work Spotlight, where I showcase different areas of the profession each episode. I’m your host, Yasmine Loupis, and today's guest is Michele, an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker, Accredited EMDR Consultant, Clinical Resource Therapy Trainer as well as partner in private practice and Director of EMDR Relational and Training at Seva House in the Hunter region. Michele has worked extensively with children, young people and adults who have experienced complex trauma as well as supporting young people who have caused harm to others. Michele provides EMDR Consultation and Clinical Supervision to professionals and develops and facilitates training in EMDR and Resource Therapy. 



Links to resources mentioned in this week’s episode:


Michele’s Clinical Practice – www.sevahouse.com.au


Michele’s EMDR Consultation Practice – www.emdrelational.com


EMDR and Resource Therapy Training – www.sevatraining.com.au


Gabor Maté – Authenticity vs Attachment - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3bynimi8HQ & https://redefineschool.com/gabor-on-authenticity-attachment/


Linda Thai’s training - https://collectivelyrooted.thinkific.com


EMDR – Notice that Podcast - https://www.instagram.com/notice_that_podcast/


Arnold Mindell - http://www.aamindell.net & https://online.processwork.edu


Earth Based Psychology – book by Arnold Mindell


Metaphysical Anatomy – book by Evette Rose


Unlocking the Emotional Brain – book by Bruce Ecker


Polyvagal Informed EMDR – book by Rebecca Kase


Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense – book by Jan Winhall


The Others Within Us – book by Robert Falconer


Every Memory Deserves Respect EMDR – book by Michael Baldwin


The Art and Science of EMDR – book by Rotem Brayer


Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) 3rd Edition – book by Francine Shapiro


Rivers Way – book by Arnold Mindell


The Wisdom of your Dreams – book by Jeremy Taylor


Our Polyvagal World – book by Stephen Porges


Gabor Maté’s In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts - https://drgabormate.com/book/in-the-realm-of-hungry-ghosts/


Social Work Spotlight podcast episode with Amy (Michele’s colleague at Seva house) - https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/uRRwl1dVNFb



This episode's transcript can be viewed here: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R0vp9ui0legCso99FYpO3xJ9jreZ3_HcjMNYKPzmVX8/edit?usp=sharing


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