Please join us for our 2025 VPA AGM, where we will speak to the wide array of important work that has been done over the past 12 months to improve working conditions and lift the profile of Psychologists throughout Victoria, and pass our reports for the year.
You will hear an update on our public sector bargaining campaign, as well as updates from other areas of the health sector – including our enormous success and ongoing work to correct gender-based undervaluation in health.
16 October at 12:30pm – to be held online
We will also be holding elections: nominations are now open for all positions on our VPA Committee, being Secretary, President, Vice President, Treasurer, and Ordinary Members of the Committee.
It would not be a VPA AGM without a fascinating PD session, and we are certain that members will enjoy this year’s presentation by Dr Maree Reser, which will address Psychologists developing new fields of interest through an introduction to dissociative identity disorder.
INTRODUCING OUR SPEAKER: DR MAREE RESER
Dr Maree Reser is a senior clinical psychologist with Monash Health’s aGile Psychological Medicine (or aPM) Clinic.
Working with the team for the past 7 years, the aPM Clinics are an innovative community based, Psychology-led service that provides targeted, goal oriented interventions to people who have experienced a deterioration in their mental wellbeing.
Alongside her role in public mental health, Maree has more recently started private practice with a focus on treating trauma, dissociation and anxiety related disorders.
In this presentation, Maree will be introducing us to one of the more complex mental health presentations she has worked with – dissociative identity disorder.
In addition to providing an overview of this both fascinating and challenging response to severe trauma, Maree aims to illustrate how a commitment to continued professional development, coupled with the appropriate level of supervision, can support a Psychologist as they extend their scope of practice to work in new fields of interest.
