Canberra and Region Branch Leadership Group

Kieran Vaughan (MA Counselling, Grad Dip Counselling, BA, & completing Cert in Initiatic Art Therapy) is a counsellor and consultant in private practice in Canberra’s inner north. She has over 30 years’ experience in the community sector, in counselling, community work, youthwork, cancer support, crisis support and suicide prevention. Her roles have included groupwork, training, supervision and management and included ensuring quality and consistency of crisis support and supervision across the national Lifeline centres and Ozhelp. Kieran also taught community sector workers at the Canberra Institute of TAFE for several years. Kieran has a strong interest in the field of trauma, and the modalities which help to release trauma from the body, especially those which encourage the mind-body connection, such as art therapy and somatic therapies. She is passionate about providing connections and skills for counsellors in Canberra, in the interests of enhancing the lives of both clients and practitioners. 

Frances Killaly works at a counsellor for Dementia Australia in the ACT. She works with people living with dementia and their carers,  and with couples and families. 

Donna McMillan has been practising counselling since 2016. She specialises in relationships, specifically working with couples and parents. She has broad experience locally and internationally, having lived overseas as an expatriate. She is also culturally sensitive and has a deep understanding on the role of culture for both individuals and couples. She uses an integrative approach to counselling and works with her clients' unique needs. She holds a Bachelor's Degree of Science (Psychology) and Masters of Counselling from the University of Canberra. She is in private practice on the Kingston Foreshore in Canberra.

Marian England is passionate about journeying with people and helping them make sense of their lives and life experiences with a focused outcome of healing. She applies different models of therapy but finds Emotion-Focused Therapy, and Body-Felt Sense Therapy a natural fit for her style of interacting with a client. She has completed a Masters degree in Pastoral Counselling.