Jari Evertsz is a clinical psychologist with 20 years of front-line experience.
Her work pathway began in high security jails and secure juvenile justice settings. Being a witness to extremes in aggression and conflict prompted her to “go back to the beginning” and develop supports for children at high risk. The program she developed and led became the joint recipient of the Overall National Australian Violence Prevention Award. She also initiated specialist treatment programs for prisons.
Jari’s experience also has a great deal of breadth: she has held positions in hospitals, injury rehabilitation and child welfare agencies and her research into depression led to a PhD from the University of Melbourne. In the last 16 years of clinical practice she has focussed on assessing problem behaviours and developmental issues in children, and providing support for victims of crime and people with significant mental illness conditions. She has worked with hundreds of everyday families to find ways out of the tension and confusion brought by high-level developmental issues and behaviour problems.
Jari loves her work and takes time out bushwalking and hiking. She is very glad to reside in Melbourne – the coffee capital of the world!