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Ms Julianne Whyte
Social worker
As founder and CEO of the Amaranth Foundation, Julianne has worked extensively across the rural communities of the Riverina. She graduated in nursing from St Vincents Hospital, Melbourne (1978) and completed a Bachelor of Social Work (2003) from La Trobe University, Wodonga, Victoria.
Julianne is a registered member of the Australian Association of Social Work (MAASW), a member of the Clinical Division of the College of Social Work (MCSW) and is a an accredited Clinical Mental Health Social Worker (AMHSW). Since 2009, Julianne and the Amaranth Foundation has received over two million dollars for Commonwealth and philanthropic projects focussing on supporting people with advanced chronic and terminal illnesses and their families and care giver needs. She has extensive experience in community development and education with a particular passion for narrative approaches to communication and personal interaction. With the Amaranth Foundation, Julianne provides therapeutic support and counselling to individuals, couples and families for a range of mental health conditions, but specialises in grief, loss and trauma therapy.
Julianne currently holds a casual lecturing with Charles Sturt University and lectures in Grief, Loss and also Narrative approaches, and provides supervision for social work students as well as providing professional peer supervision. She was the co-chair of the education committee of Oncology Social Work Australia until 2015, is a current member of the NSW Social Work Palliative Care Practice Group, where she is driving a working group looking at competency standards for social workers in End of Life and Palliative Care for the Australian context. Julianne has established and facilitates two Commonwealth funded Mental Health Professional Networks with a focus on grief, loss and trauma.
As CEO of Amaranth, Julianne provided evidence to the Senate Inquiry into Palliative Care in Australia and the model of social work that she is developing is referenced in the final report to Government. She is now working towards completing her PhD in Social Work and in the 2017 Australia Day Awards, Julianne received an Order of Australia Medal for her work advancing Palliative Care in the community.
Matthew Povey
Social worker and psychotherapist
Matthew Povey is a Trauma Psychotherapist and Accredited Counselling Supervisor. He has been working in fire recovery as a Trauma Clinician for twelve months. This role includes individual, group and community development work to the Snowy Valley Region of New South Wales. His theory is underpinned by systems and attachment theory, using Mentalisation Based Therapy as a main mode of practice with a special interest in complex trauma, adolescent mental health and severe mental heath issues. He is also a Approved Victims Services Accredited Counsellor under New South Wales Victims of Crime.