Vanessa Edwige

Vanessa Edwige

Vanessa Edwige is a Ngarabal woman from Emmaville, NSW. Vanessa is a registered psychologist and the Chair of the Australian Indigenous Psychologists Association. Vanessa is a Director on the Board of Gayaa Dhuwi (Proud Spirit) Australia. Vanessa has worked in Redfern, NSW for most of her career working predominantly with Aboriginal children, young people, families and community providing culturally responsive psychological support for adverse childhood experiences, intergenerational trauma and supporting cultural resilience. Vanessa currently works privately writing psychological reports for people involved in the judicial system, reports for the NSW and Victorian Coroners Court, medicolegal reports and family/child assessment reports. Vanessa has been writing these reports for over 15 years. Vanessa has also worked as a Senior Psychologist Education for the NSW Department of Education for five years. Prior to this, Vanessa worked as a school counsellor, a consultant and trainer for the NSW Institute of Psychiatry, NSW Co-ordinator for Aboriginal victims of crime with the NSW Attorney General’s Department and as the Senior Researcher for the NSW Aboriginal Child Sexual assault report with NSW Attorney Generals Department. Vanessa is a member of the independent advisory panel for the NSW Public Defenders Bugmy Bar Book project and is a co-author on the Significance of Culture to Wellbeing, Healing and Rehabilitation which was commissioned for the Bugmy Bar Book Project.