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.