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Convenor - Iuliia Kapinos

Iuliia is a Clinical Psychotherapist with over a decade of experience working with trauma, codependency, relational difficulties, and cross-cultural transitions. She has provided care in both private and residential settings, including addiction rehabilitation, where she supported individuals and their families and worked closely with psychiatrists and multidisciplinary teams. Her integrative approach draws on Transactional Analysis, relational psychoanalysis, and EMDR. Iuliia holds a Master’s in Psychology (Psychoanalysis) and serves on the board of the Australian Transactional Analysis Association. She is passionate about ethical leadership, collaboration, and raising the profile of psychotherapy. Outside work, she enjoys yoga, coastal walks, and time with her dog Bruno.

Deputy Convenor - Agnieszka Mazus

Agnieszka holds a Master of Counselling from Monash University and works as a relationship counsellor supporting couples and adult individuals. Agnieszka is committed to promoting social belonging and healthy relationships as core elements of a healthy lifestyle and overall wellbeing. She supports clients who are speakers of Spanish, Polish, and English.

Prior to establishing herself as a counsellor, Agnieszka built a corporate career in People & Culture in major international companies in The Netherlands and has lived and worked in Europe, South America, Middle East, and now Australia. Agnieszka obtained a Master of Social Science from the University of Utrecht and a Master of Arts from Warsaw University and her interests always involved immigration experience, minority rights and culture. She is also promoting career pursuits and financial emancipation of women with international backgrounds.

Susan Konstantas

Susan is a qualified and experienced counsellor and coach with over two decades of experience supporting individuals and families through life’s challenges. She specialises in working with older adults, people with disabilities, carers, and those facing grief, loss, palliative conditions, and complex family or relationship issues.

Her person-centred, trauma-informed approach is grounded in empathy, respect, and the belief that individuals are the experts in their own lives. Susan supports clients to explore their experiences, clarify their values and goals, and build on their strengths to live more meaningful lives. She draws on evidence-based practices including CBT, ACT, and Solution-Focused Therapy.

Susan has worked across a variety of community health, palliative care, and not-for-profit settings and brings deep understanding of systems such as NDIS, mental health, family violence, and disability services.

Susan has a very bossy and much-loved Westie called Hudson who is like a third child.

Marianne Trinder

Marianne is a Registered Clinical Counsellor, speaker and workshop presenter with a private practice in Melbourne’s inner North

Marianne is the recipient of the Inaugural ACA Excellence Award for Innovation in Counselling - recognition of her work in developing “new, effective counselling techniques or approaches grounded in evidence-based principles and supported by research.”

With over 30 years’ experience as a mindfulness practitioner, Marianne integrates evidence-based mindfulness approaches such as ACT into her work. Marianne’s qualifications include degrees in Arts (Psychology) and Commerce (Commercial Law, Economics) from the University of Melbourne as well as a Masters of Counselling from Monash University.

Passionate about creating effective support for those navigating the challenges of pregnancy loss, miscarriage and pregnancy after loss, Marianne has provided individual and group support to hundreds of people throughout Australia. In recent years, along with her private practice work, Marianne created the Pink Elephants Bereavement Support Program as well as delivering the program Australia-wide, and gathering data to evaluate its impact.

Marianne lives and works on Wurundjeri land, where she enjoys spending weekends and work breaks exploring the local cafe culture.

Jack O'Sullivan

Jack is a Registered Clinical Counsellor and clinical supervisor based in Avenel, Victoria, working predominantly with regional and rural men. Raised in the Goulburn Valley, his practice is grounded in regional life and the conditions shaping it. He provides in-person and telehealth support through Red Gum Reflections (www.redgumreflections.com.au).

His approach is integrative, informed by social constructionism, humanism, and analytic psychology (Jungian), and is grounded in narrative therapy. He attends to identity, meaning, and the broader cultural and social influences shaping experience.

Jack is Master’s qualified and has held senior roles including managing a not-for-profit organisation, practice management, counsellor training, and senior clinical position across community services. He contributed to the development of equine-assisted narrative therapy programs and has published work documenting innovations in this area. He remains active in professional committees and community projects.

His work is shaped by interests in literature and spirituality, alongside a strong connection to the bush and regional Australia.