Credentials
- Bachelor of Social Work (Honours)
- Graduate Diploma in Legal Studies
- Master of Applied Mental Health Studies (Child and Adolescent Mental Health)
- Advanced postgraduate study in family violence
- Currently completing Master of Forensic Mental Health — UNSW Faculty of Medicine and Health
- Accredited Mental Health Social Worker (since 2022)
Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC) Pacifica Congress
11-point ledger
- Infants, children and adolescents experiencing parental separation
- Parenting arrangements individualised to the development and circumstances of children and families
- Child and adolescent mental health and development
- Parenting capacity and parent-child relationships
- Attachment, reflective functioning and family relationships
- Trauma-informed practice
- Family violence and its effects on children and parenting
- Infant and perinatal mental health
- Risk and protective factors within complex family systems
- The intersection of mental health and family law
- Forensic mental health assessment
Family Court and Federal Circuit Court of Australia, 2009–2019 (Sydney, then Tasmania) — Family Consultant, then Senior Family Consultant (now Child Court Expert). Private practice as Louise Salmon Consulting since June 2019.
Earlier career: child and family mental health services, community mental health, mediation, parenting education, counselling and rehabilitation. National advisory and consultative work in children’s mental health, psychiatry policy and family violence.
Personality functioning Risk evaluation Attachment interview protocols Trauma Family violence Reflective functioning Mentalising Motivational interviewing Emotionally focused therapy Child and adolescent mental health
Louise has presented at national and international conferences on social work, Child Court Experts in the family courts, trauma-informed practice, child and perinatal mental health, and the intersection of mental health and family law.