Gerard Webster has worked with adults, adolescents and children for twenty-five years in both the public and private sector - offering psychological assessments and psychotherapeutic services to both victims and perpetrators of sexual abuse.

Gerard is a Forensic and Counselling Psychologist in private practice who has received supervisor level accreditation to assess and treat both child and adult sexual abusers under the NSW Commission for Children and Young People Child Sex Offender Counsellors Accreditation Scheme. He has also been awarded supervisor status by the Department of Health, Psychologists Registration Board.

In addition to his clinical work, Gerard has lectured in undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the Australian Catholic University throughout the last decade. His principal areas of teaching have been in developmental psychology, child protection and abuse prevention, and social justice.

Gerard’s training programs about children’s sexuality and sexual behaviour problems (in both indigenous and non-indigenous communities) have been published by the NSW Government and by the NSW Catholic Education Commission.

In addition to being ANZATSA's President, Gerard is a member of the National Executive of the Australian Psychological Society's College of Counselling Psycholgists.

Victoria Weedon is a Counsellor at SAFE, a community based treatment centre for people who sexually offend against children. She is currently on the clinical Psychology Programme at Massey Univeristy in Auckland and working on the Youth Team, and involved in the development of a new program at SAFE for women and girls who have sexually abused.

For the past seven years she has been working as a counsellor in the field of sexual violence and trauma.  This involved five years at Auckland Sexual Abuse HELP Foundation, before moving on to SAFE.  Victoria is a full member of the New Zealand Association of Counsellors (NZAC).

Don is the Manager for the STOP Trust based in Christchurch , New Zealand with branches in Invercargill  and Dunedin. The STOP Trust provides community-based assessment and treatment services to children, adolescents and adults who have sexually abused/sexually offended.

Don has a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Accounting and Economics and a postgraduate Diploma in Social Work.  He has worked in the child and family field in a range of social work and clinical roles for over 25 years and specialized in working with adolescents who have sexually abused for over 15 years. Don is a keen snowboarder and surfer. In addtion to being the Treasurer of ANZATSA, Don is a member of the Association's Training Sub-committee.

Armon Tamatea is currently the Senior Advisor (psychological research) for the Department of Corrections, and has worked extensively in the assessment and treatment of sexual and violent offenders. He contributed to the design and implementation of the High-Risk Personality Programme pilot - a violence prevention programme specifically designed for high-risk violent offenders diagnosed with psychopathy. Recent projects have included trialling a situational management approach to risk intervention regarding prisoner violence at New Zealand's only maximum security prison, an exploration of the experiences of men who leave gangs, a review of the Bicultural Therapy Model, as well as examining offence desistance issues with individuals on probation. His main clinical and research interests include establishing effective treatment for high-risk offenders with severe personality pathology and psychopathy, the role of culture in forensic settings, offender desistance, and 'manipulative' behaviour in correctional contexts.

Nathan (Nate) Gaunt is a Psychologist and Senior Therapist at SAFE, a community based treatment centre for people who sexually offend against children. He has developed and coordinates a specific treatment program for people who have sexually offended using the Internet and other cyber technologies (such as viewing, producing and trading child pornographic imagery etc). His particular practice interests are; Cyber-Psychology, problematic and offensive Internet usage, sex and sexuality, pornography, and gender issues. Nate currently serves as a board member on Auckland ’s Rape Prevention Education Program, and previously taught Psychology at the University of Auckland before his present position. Nate is registered with the New Zealand Psychologists Board and is a full member of the New Zealand Psychological Society.

Rachel Hart is a Forensic Psychologist who has worked with juvenile and adult offenders for the past ten years, specialising in sex offender assessment and treatment. Rachel is currently working with high risk sexual and violent offenders being managed in the community, providing consultation, assessment and risk management as a Senior Specialist Psychologist with the NSW Department of Corrective Services, Community Compliance Group. She has also worked with female sex offenders and is interested in research and program development in this area.

Katie Seidler is a Clinical and Forensic Psychologist in private practice who has received supervison accreditation to assess and treat both child and adult sexual abusers under the NSW Commission for Children and Young People Child Sex Offender Counsellors Accreditation Scheme. Over the last ten years, Katie has worked with sex offenders in both the adult and juvenile criminal system. Katie is a Clinical member of ANZATSA and has previously been Secretary  and Vice President of ANZATSA for a number of years. She is currently a member of the Editorial, Membership and 2009 Conference Sub-Committees.

Dale is the Programs Director of the NSW Pre-Trial Diversion of Offenders Program (Cedar Cottage) and New Street Adolescent Service which are NSW Department of Health treatment programs for parents and children who have sexually abused children. Dale has been Director of these services from the time of their commencement in 1989 and 1998 respectively. Prior to this he worked in a variety of child, adolescent and family mental health settings.

Dale’s professional training is in Social Work and Law. He has a particular interest in training and professional standards for people working with those who have sexually abused children. He participates in a number of government and professional associations, panels and committees as well as assisting some church groups review complaints concerning the conduct of clergy and church leaders.

Dale is a founding member of the Australia and New Zealand Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abuse (ANZATSA) and was President of this association from 2000 to 2004. Dale is also a member of the accreditation panel of the Child Sex Offender Counsellor Accreditation Scheme (CSOCAS) administered by the NSW Commission for Children and Young People.