About us - our people

Ms Gabby Skelsey

Gabby works with clients on issues including relationship, trauma, anxiety and depression.

Gabby is an Employment Assistance Program provider to forensic psychology services in Victoria. Gabby is a workcover provider.

Gabby is also the current President of the Counsellors' and Psychotherapists' Association of Victoria (CAPAV.) .

Professional Qualifications

Taskforce Community Agency Inc, Certificate IV in Alcohol and Other Drugs 2006
Australian Inst of Social Relations, Diploma in Community Education 2003
Centre of Personal Education, Cert IV in Assessment & Workplace Training 2003
Centre for Grief Education, Bereavement Counselling, Current Concepts in Practice 2002
Trauma Intervention & Consultancy Services, Critical Incident Stress Management 2002
La Trobe University, Post Grad Dip Counselling and Human Services 2000
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Dip Com Studies 1999

Gabby has led training and presentations on the following:

Prepared and led three day training workshop to Marie Stopes International staff, Myanmar “Working with Marginalised Groups”, Myanmar 2006
Case presentation “Working with Transference” – Exploring the Pragmatics of Counselling & Therapy, Psychotherapy & Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA) Conference 2004
Presentation – “Street culture & peer support programs” to Australasian Critical Incident Stress Association, Victorian Chapter 2003
Presented workshop, “Changes in independent practice” – An Australian Perspective, British Counselling & Psychotherapy Association, London, UK 2002
Case presentation to ASTSS Ninth Annual Conference on Traumatic Stress - “Beyond PTSD. Clinical & Societal Implications of the Emerging Trauma Paradigm”, New Zealand 2002
Case presentation to ESTSS Seventh European Conference on Traumatic Stress, Edinburgh, UK 2001

Ms Maralyn Karpathiou

Maralyn works with individuals and families with a range of issues, some of which require short-term contact, others extended therapeutic counselling including task-oriented casework. Counselling is provided on issues around family dynamics, sexual abuse, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties and behavioural problems. She also works in collaboration with those in the medical sector in providing counselling to the bereaved in a palliative care setting. Maralyn is a Workcover provider.

Professional Qualifications

Sandy Beach Learning Centre, Cert IV in Assessment & Workplace Training 2005
Centre for Grief Education, Bereavement Counselling, Current Concepts in Practice 2002
La Trobe University , Post Grad Dip Counselling and Human Services 2000
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Dip Com Studies 1999
La Trobe University, Certificate School Services Officer 1996

Maralyn has delivered papers at grief and loss conferences including

Presentation “ Slaying Dragons Together” United We Stand Conference, Perth WA. 2006
Presented workshop ‘Working with the Bereaved from a Medical Perspective’, Graduate Nurse Study Forum, Bethlehem Hospital, 2006
Presentation “When the Siren’s Song Mutes the Scream” National Assn of Loss & Grief (VIC) Inc, Grief Week Forum, Melbourne 2005
Presented workshop “There’s Light At The End Of The Tunnel-Understanding Depression” First Step Clinic, Melbourne 2004