Dr Naomi Blake established the business in 2018. She was conferred her PhD in 2014 at The University of South Australia, with her thesis entitled Success for University Students with Mental Illness: Building Resilience and Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning and Accomplishment. She has 8 years’ experience teaching in the school of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy at the same university. She has numerous other qualifications and experience related to work with adolescents both at high school and university levels.

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Naomi Blake is a qualified and experienced social worker specialising in mental health counselling and psychotherapy. She has over 20 years’ experience working in fields spanning children to adults, across government and non-government agencies. This includes over 7 years’ experience in clinical supervision and mentoring of students and teaching at the University of South Australia. Although taking a step back, with Jonathan Turk taking the lead, her passion, knowledge and mission provided for in the business will not change.

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Naomi has passed on to the team through mentoring and modelling, the importance of being diligent in continuous professional development. This provides that everyone on the team is accessing the latest developments to work  collaboratively with every client to achieve their goals. You will be able to find someone to meet your needs from our small but expanding team.