Presenting at the 2024 RSIS Conference

Miranda Bain

Miranda holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in psychology. While residing in the USA, New Zealand and Australia, Miranda has worked as a clinician, educator, and advocate for over 25 years. She has specialised in the areas of interpersonal violence, sexual abuse, and trauma throughout her career. This focus has led to opportunities to design and apply interventions across varied geographical and societal contexts. Since immigrating to Australia, she has focused specifically on the impact of abuse and trauma on children. Her current role as Act for Kids’ Director of Therapy Services includes responsibility and oversight of best practice across Act for Kids therapeutic services, and early education programmes nationally. Therapeutic services under her purview include Allied Health Integrated Therapy, Infant Mental Health, Trauma, Youth Sexual Violence (HSB); and Sexual Abuse counselling programmes. Miranda is the Chair of the Queensland Harmful Sexual Behaviour Treatment Network, and a member of the National Strategic Advisory Groupinforming the National Office of Child Safety’s implementation of recommendations from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. She maintains professional membership with the Australian Counselling Association, and the Australia New Zealand Association for Treatment of Sexual Abuse (ANZATSA).