Office Bearers

President:

Michael Iacovino

Vice-President: 

Kerry Buchecker

Treasurer :       

Gisela Loader

Secretary:

Trevor Hawkins

Education Coordinator:

David George /

Jan Nunan

Journal Coordinator:

Trevor Hawkins

Conference Coordinator:      

Jan Collins

Special Projects Officer:

Tania Dhillon

Additional member appointed to the NEC November 2009

Georgia Blackwell - QLD

New South Wales

Trevor Hawkins

(02) 9351 9120

trevor.hawkins@sydney.edu.au

Trevor has been active in ASORC for over 30 years and returned to the National Executive Committee in 2007.  Trevor was awarded Life Membership of ASORC in 2006 and Fellow status in 2008.  Outside of his ASORC involvement he teaches in the rehabilitation counselling programs at the University of Sydney and provides rehabilitation and assessment services in his private practice in Sydney.  His non-work passion is the Sydney Swans!!

Australian Capital Territory

0419 200 338
jancollins5@bigpond.com

Jan has been involved with ASORC since 2002, initially with the NSW Sub-committee, including time as NSW President.  Jan has been on the National Executive Committee since 2005.   Jan has been involved in the rehabilitation field for over 30 years, initially as the first Australian woman to qualify as a Prosthetist, and later working with deaf and hearing impaired children and intellectually disabled people.  During the 1990’s Jan completed Rehabilitation Counselling studies before entering the compensible market and moving to Canberra for a lifestyle change.  In more recent years, Jan has become a Comcare Case Manager for ACT Government agencies.  When not helping injured workers to get back to work, Jan is busy as a textile artist and beader.

Victoria

Kerry Buchecker

03 5022 8533

buchecker@ncable.com.au
 

Kerry has been involved with ASORC since 1997 and held the position of Victorian President for three years prior to the move to Nationalisation.  Kerry is currently employed as the Director of Professional Standards for the Catholic Church in Victoria. Her role involves managing the Towards Healing program for people with allegations of abuse against the Clergy and/or lay persons in Victoria. She also operate a private counselling practice in Victoria providing counselling services to people residing in rural communities. Over the years she has been actively involved in working in a voluntary capacity with several community based and welfare organisations within North West Victoria.

Michael Iacovino

03 9382 0800

mi121@telstra.com

Michael has been involved at ASORC State/National sub-committees and at Executive levels since 2002.  He has worked in the rehabilitation field since 1991, with a focus on vocational assessments & RTW programs.  Since 1999, he has worked as an occupational rehabilitation consultant in private practice, specialising in compensable transport accident and workers compensation cases (State & Commonwealth), vocational rehabilitation service provision, as well as undertaking EAP counselling, and freelance rehab consultancy, and early intervention programs (non-compensable).

South Australia

David George

08 8377 0101
david@status.net.au
 

David has been actively involved with both the SA State Committee and the National Executive since 1996, including terms as SA President and Vice President.  He was recently appointed a Fellow of The Australian Society of Rehabilitation Counsellors.  David is currently employed in a management role working with disadvantaged long-term unemployed job seekers and people with disabilities.  He has specialist skills in vocational assessments, working with clients with psychiatric disorders, and the use of counselling therapies in vocational rehabilitation. David has a keen interest in assessing the skills and qualifications of ASORC membership applicants, and in advising on the content of Rehabilitation Counselling university programmes.  David lives in Adelaide – the best city in Australia - and can frequently be found bushwalking in the Mt Lofty ranges, or when time and finances permit, travelling ‘on the cheap’ around Egypt and the Middle East.

Tania Dhillon

08 8132 3213

tania@effective.net.au

Awaiting biography.

Western Australia

Gisela Loader

08 9233 1610
Gisela.Loader@crsaustralia.gov.au

Gisela became an ASORC member in 1990 and has been involved with the WA State committee since 2001 and the NEC from 2007.  She has worked as a Rehabilitation Counsellor since 1989, when she joined CRS Australia. She works in both, the non-compensable and compensable markets. Over the years she has been involved in a variety of roles, including supervision, vocational assessment training, a stint in management, EAP counselling and adding JCA assessments since 2006.  She is also a proud grandma, but with the young family currently in India, mostly a ‘Skype grandma’.

Queensland 

Jan Nunan

07 5583 0600

jan.nunan@crsaustralia.gov.au 

In 2002 Jan became an ASORC member with a goal of being able to provide Supervision to up and coming Rehabilitation Counsellors and to be able to give back something to a profession that had provided so much. She joined the National Executive Committee in 2008.  Having worked as a Rehabilitation Counsellor in the early 1990's, Jan has worked in CRS Australia for 18 years with the last 14 in a management role. Jan lives in an idyllic location on the Gold Coast with her two sons and their Golden Retriever, Duncan.

Tasmania - Vacant

Northern Territory - Vacant