All Meridian Wellbeing Clinicians are experienced, registered and qualified, and work within their professional scope of practice, Meridian’s Code of Conduct and the code of ethics of their registering body.
All clinicians are proud to be community-focused, inclusive, non-judgemental, compassionate, professional and LGBTQ+ competent.
They bring lived experience to their roles, walking beside our clients and building collective resilience against the adverse experiences that impact our communities.
Josephynn (Quyen) Tran (she/her)
- Accreditations/memberships: AHPRA Registered Psychologist, MAPS
- Qualifications: BPsySc(Hons)
- Languages: English, Vietnamese.
Experience: Josephynn has experience working with young people and adults, members of the LGBTIQA+ communities, disabled people, and people who are neurodivergent. Josephynn understands the Southeast Asian cultural influences in mental health and in the LGBTIQA+ space.
Approach: Person-centred, trauma-informed, strength-based and collaborative. CBT, Schema Therapy, Narrative Therapy and Mindfulness approaches.
Josephynn can support clients with:
- anxiety
- depression
- stress
- relationship-related concerns
- minority stress
- exploring and/or affirming gender
- exploring and/or affirming sexuality
- trauma including childhood trauma
- burnout.
Special interests:
- LGBTQ+ (exploration and/or affirmation)
- addressing impact of childhood experiences
- burnout recovery
- queer-affirming Christianity.
Veronica Wagner (she/her)
- Accreditations/memberships: AHPRA Registered Psychologist
- Qualifications: BA(Hons), BPsychSc(Hons), MClinPsych
- Languages: English.
Experience: Veronica has experience working with adolescents and adults across the lifespan, including members of LGBTQ+ communities, people with neurodivergence and people from linguistically and culturally diverse backgrounds.
Approach: Person-centred, authentic and compassionate. Veronica aims to help clients to feel safe and heard, build their understanding and skills, and empower them to feel confident in their own wisdom and capacity to create meaningful change. She also takes very seriously the importance of positive wellbeing, joy and playfulness. She works to integrate elements of therapeutic frameworks to meet clients’ individual needs, including CBT, ACT and DBT-informed approaches.
Veronica can support clients with challenges including:
- anxiety
- depression
- coping with stress
- trauma recovery and posttraumatic stress
- emotional reactivity and regulation
- exploring and/or affirming gender and sexuality
- interpersonal difficulties.
CJ Stewart (he/they)
- Accreditations/memberships: ACA Level 2 Counsellor
- Qualifications: Master of Guidance and Counselling
- Languages: English.
Experience: CJ is a former high school and college teacher and career advisor and has worked in the construction industry. They have experience working with adults and adolescents, members of LGBTQ+ communities, people living with disability and people who are neurodivergent (like himself) or wish to explore possible diagnosis. CJ has experience in the process of seeking mental health related diagnoses and an awareness of the LGBTQ+ space and non-monogamous lifestyles.
Approach: Person-centred, trauma-informed and disability-affirming. Cognitive, experiential, behavioural, developmental, interpersonal, systemic, cultural, psychodynamic and biological practice domains.
CJ can support clients with:
- neurodiversity and disability-related stressors
- self-esteem
- career guidance
- emotional disturbance
- non-monogamy-related concerns
- anxiety
- depression
- stress
- exploring and/or affirming gender
- exploring and/or affirming sexuality
- autistic-burnout.
Special interests:
- intersection between sexuality/gender and neurodiversity
- shame and guilt
- finding your 'natural habitat'
- autistic burnout recovery
- non-monogamy
- family/ally support.
Tushar Bist (they/them)
- Accreditations/memberships: PACFA Registered Counsellor (Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia)
- Qualifications: Master of Counselling from Monash University
- Languages: English, Hindi, Urdu.
Experience: Tushar has experience working with LGBTQ+ communities, people living with disability, neurodivergence, people of colour and other minority groups. As a person of colour, Tushar has a personal understanding of the complexities arising from the intersection of queer identity, racial identity and mental health.
Approach: Tushar believes in community approaches to mental health and in advocating for moving away from a purely individualistic approach, as mental health is also a result of the socially constructed systems we live within. They are a strong believer in client agency in clinical settings, providing space to explore emotional and mental health in pursuit of pre-determined wellbeing goals. Their person-centred, trauma-informed approach to care aims to consolidate coping mechanisms and personal resilience among clients, while using a community lens.
Tushar can support clients with:
- anxiety
- depression
- stress
- relationship-related concerns
- minority stress
- exploring and/or affirming gender
- exploring and/or affirming sexuality
- trauma, including childhood trauma
- burnout.
Ellen Bache (they/he)
- Accreditations/memberships: ACA level 2 Counsellor
- Qualifications: Master of Counselling from University of Canberra
- Languages: English.
Experience: Ellen has experience working with young adults and adults, including members of LGBTQ+ communities and people who are neurodivergent. Ellen’s lived experience offers them insight into the unique intersection of neurodivergence and queer identity, and he has an awareness of diverse relationship structures and styles.
Approach: Ellen provides trauma-informed, person-centred therapy with empathy and compassion. They use a multi-theoretical framework that integrates practice domains (such as cognitive, behavioural, experiential, emotions-focused and somatic) to tailor therapy to individual clients’ needs.
Ellen can support clients with:
- neurodiversity-related stressors
- emotional disturbance
- anxiety
- depression
- stress
- exploring and/or affirming gender
- exploring and/or affirming sexuality
- non-monogamy-related concerns
- self-esteem
- relationship-related concerns.
Special interests:
- exploring gender and sexuality
- late-diagnosed neurodivergence
- non-monogamy
- neurodivergent masking and unmasking.
Andrew Jin (he/him)
- Accreditations/memberships: AASW Mental Health Social Worker, ACWA Community Worker, Welfare Worker
- Qualifications: BA (Hons), MSW
- Languages: English, Mandarin.
Experience: Andrew has diverse experience in therapeutic, community and health settings. He has worked extensively with LGBTQ+ communities, men who have sex with men, people living with or impacted by HIV, and refugees and asylum seekers, helping them navigate complex systems to access the care and support they deserve. His background includes psychosocial assessments, care coordination and advocating for clients within multidisciplinary teams.
Approach: Andrew’s practice is genuinely open-minded, non-judgmental, and systematic—meeting clients where they are and ensuring they don’t fall through the cracks. He’s passionate about removing barriers to care, helping clients make informed decisions about their wellbeing, and connecting them with the most suitable support.