Staff

Dr Harvey J Miller

Dr Miller is an experienced therapist who has taught counselling and family therapy, and practiced as a family therapist both in Australia and overseas since 1981.

He has worked in a wide range of different counselling contexts including private practice, parishes and parish-based agencies, and government funded organizations.

Harvey has an Australian Master’s Degree (in child development) and a Master’s Degree and a Clinical PhD from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.  He is a clinical member of AAFT, a counsellor and counselling educator and supervisor for NALAG.  He is also an approved counsellor for the Victims of Crime Compensation Referral Assistance Service (VRAS), and is accredited to provide counselling for the Traffic Accident Commission (TAC) and Workcover.

Harvey is a past president of the Victorian Association of Family Therapists (now The Australian Association for Family Therapy), and was a member of the Board of Management of the Gippsland Centre Against Sexual Assault. Also he has been a member of the Gippsland Aids Professional Support and Update Group, and the Gippsland Autism Consultation and Training program, auspiced by the Monash University Centre for Developmental Psychiatry and Psychology.

Dr Annette Woodhouse

Dr Annette Woodhouse

Annette has been an Adjunct Faculty member of the Gilead Downs Family Therapy Centre since 2005, as well as one of the senior therapists within the organisation. In 2014 she re-located to Queensland, but retains her position of Adjunct Faculty member, being heavily involved in the design and teaching program of the Advanced Clinical Training Program in Family Therapy.

In 2019 she adopted the newly created role of Course Director, Advanced Clinical Training Program in Family Therapy, Sunshine Coast, Queensland.

 Annette is a Credentialed Mental Health Nurse, Peer reviewer and mentor (ACMHN), and has 40 years’ experience in a range of mental health clinical, therapeutic and academic contexts. This includes a particular focus in the specialist areas of child, adolescent and family mental health, eating disorders, early psychosis, personality disorders, alcohol and other drugs and consumer and peer workforce collaborations.

She has a Graduate Diploma of Social Science in Family Therapy Swinburne University Of Technology (2004), Master’s Degree in Family Therapy from the New South Wales Institute of Psychiatry (2006), and her PhD thesis from Monash University titled : The (Extra) Ordinary Experiences and Practices of Rural Family Therapists (2015) focused on Social Constructionist approaches of family therapists working in the rural context. Annette is also a Clinical Member, and Accredited Supervisor, with the Australian Association for Family Therapy (AAFT).