Debra Smith is a registered psychologist in Sale, Victoria, with extensive experience in private practice and the public sector as a manager and practitioner. Currently, Debra is a provider of psychological services for the RAAF, Work cover, several EAP agencies, including Davidson Trahaire, OSA, and IPS, TAC, local community health agencies, Centrelink, and the Vietnam Veterans Counselling Service. She was senior psychologist and then consulting psychologist at Fulham Correctional Centre for over seven years. She is trained in critical incident debriefing, and works extensively with clients suffering post-traumatic stress disorder. Debra co-facilitates a range of group-based programmes in Bairnsdale and Sale with foundations in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Committment Therapy (ACT). The focus of the group programs is management of pain, anger, anxiety, depression and personal development. Debra has also studied grief and loss and written a book on this in relation to people with intellectual disabilities. She has published articles in relation to social capital, research, prisons, drugs and public health.
