Brunetta Giborees

Experienced educator, counsellor, and policy advisor with a proven ability to engage and inspire young people.

I bring expertise in youth support, stakeholder engagement, and cultural competency.

I am a registered, practicing Counsellor and former Secondary School Teacher, dedicated to supporting young adults through pivotal stages of their lives. This is complemented by recent postgraduate qualifications in Health Science and Community Psychology.

My roles have honed my skills in relationship-building and guiding clients from diverse communities.

Passionate about fostering pathways to tertiary education, I am committed to supporting students and their whānau through the transition to university life.

• Selected to present my casework as an example of best-practice collaboration at a multiagency seminar (Anglicare Victoria, Melbourne), demonstrating strong relationship development skills across agencies, engagement skills with a family who had complex needs and a commitment to quality of practice.
• Consistent positive feedback from multiple individuals and whanau and other key stakeholders (police, judiciary, schools) I worked with, as I supported them to achieve successful outcomes e.g. including a reduction in youth offending behaviour. This was often with initially resistant whanau, demonstrating my interpersonal and relationship development skills were key to building trust and resilience.
• I was seconded to a leadership position as coordinator in my last three months, using a supportive leadership style, at Anglicare Victoria. This role meant ensuring the team met all deadlines while representing the agency at weekly community meetings to collaborate, prioritise and allocate cases.

youth mentor with Upside Youth Development, Community development assisting network of Community providers as part of Manaaki Rangatahi network.

• English, Fluent (written and oral)
• Hindi (Fiji-Hindi dialect), Basic understanding

• Reading- learning about history, biographies, human development, psychology
• Theatre and the arts - visiting museums, exhibitions, plays
• Travel - learning about cultures and history of destinations
• Aerobics, yoga

• Foundations of Casework
• Conflict Management
• Group Work Facilitation
• Responding to survivors of sexual assault
• Family Violence and Risk Assessment
• Understanding and Working with Diversity (Islam)
• 'Train the Trainer', Child Protection - Kidscape UK (2012)
• Creative solutions for working with children who have experienced trauma - Australian Childhood Foundation (2011)
• Break the Cycle, facilitating groupwork for parents with violent teenagers - Anglicare Victoria (2010)
• Working with Children who have experienced complex and chronic trauma - Australian Childhood Foundation (2009)
• Foundations of Casework - Anglicare Victoria (2009)
• Responding to Sexual Assault, Level 1) - Centre Against Sexual Assault (2010)
• Facilitation training - The Groupwork Institute of Australia (2010)
• Single Session training at the Bouverie Centre (2010)
• 5-day course in Multisystemic Therapy (2014)
• Undertaking short courses for CPD through Wharaurau, New Zealand Psychological Society, including: Motivational Interviewing, Confidentiality and Consent when working with taiohi, de-escalation, Resisting burnout and vicarious trauma with solidarity, connection and collective ethics (2023), Neurodiversity training day, Solutions focused intervention.