Dr Jeannie Higgins is a specialist clinical psychologist and a community and organisational consultant with over thirty years of clinical, research, community and policy experience. Dr Higgins has worked in acute psychiatry, community health, developmental disabilities, university teaching and alternative care for abused and neglected adolescents. She has offered shop front and country outreach services for war veterans and their families and been involved in national programs for relationship education and treatment. Dr Higgins is also a yoga and meditation teacher. Survivors of complex trauma, medical practitioners, police, nurses, fire-fighters, ambulance officers, war veterans and their families are the major focus of her clinical, teaching and writing work. Dr Higgins is actively involved in social and environmental advocacy.