Vicki Mansfield is a Senior Advisor, Practice Development with Emerging Minds, and has over 30 years experience working with children and families. Vicki has worked in a broad range of social work roles including homelessness services, child and adolescent mental health, family and domestic violence services, child protection, acute hospital settings and private practice.
For the last 15 years Vicki’s primary area of focus has been perinatal and infant mental health, providing clinical services, consultation, and reflective supervision across Australia. Vicki has a strong commitment to developing relationship focussed practice knowledge and skills, with the aim to promote mental health in the early years . Vicki places great value in supporting parents in the perinatal period and feels this is a time of transformation and change as parent and child get to know each other. She enjoys the playfulness and creativity that comes with working with children and is committed to holding a safe space for the child’s voice and individual uniqueness to shine.