Children’s Law Podcast

Under the auspices of her company, Ex Curia, Arna has provided decades of legal education, coaching and consultancy to tertiary and practical training institutions across Australia including ANU, VU, ACU, Leo Cussen, Victoria Legal Aid, Law Institute of Victoria and the Department of Families, Fairness and Housing. 

Arna has a special interest in developing novel ways to raise awareness about the law, the legal industry, and the people that undertake the challenging and vital work within it. In 2012 she project-managed Victoria Legal Aid’s inaugural Trial Counsel Development Program, a unique training program for junior barristers to develop their trial advocacy skills. The program is still in operation today. The following year she convened and coordinated an innovative mentoring tool for new lawyers, for which she was shortlisted for the 2016 LIV Mentor of the Year award. The content published in www.newlawyerlanguage.com continues to be utilised by law schools to examine issues of professionalism, ethics, and identity. In her How to love a lawyer, even if you are one lecture, Arna promotes the development of sustainable professional identities for new lawyers via a health and wellbeing lens. Arna’s latest project is the Best Interests Children’s Law Podcast – a podcast designed to protect and promote the interests of children one conversation at a time.

He has acted as an expert in court on numerous occasions and consulted and trained with a variety of audiences, including the police, judges, lawyers, DHHS workers, child protection workers, corrections workers and prison officers. He teaches regularly at multiple universities in forensic psychology and wellbeing.

He has long had a special interest in health and wellbeing for professionals and first responders. He has worked as the Acting Senior Psychologist for the Police Psychology Unit and Family Violence command. Within the Police Psychology unit, he was a key instigator of the implementation of the mental health reviews of 2016 for the wellbeing of Victoria Police members. Form this he has recognized the importance of self-care when working in a challenging and demanding environment. He brought this understanding to the Victorian Bar, running practical workshops with Victorian barristers to assist them to manage their complex workplace environment.

William has also worked extensively with children and families in both an organisational and clinical setting. More recently he held a position as Manager of Evidence Based Programs for OzChild, a not-for-profit organization that works with best practice programs to strengthen and reunify families.

William runs a private practice in the northern suburbs called Meliora: therapy for everyone. He is also an NDIS registered psychologist and provides intervention assessment, training and consultation in managing people with disability who are involved in harmful and criminal behaviours.