Jim van Rensburg is the Principal Psychologist at the Te Piriti Special Treatment Unit of the Department of Corrections in Auckland. He qualified as a Clinical Psychologist at the University of South Africa in 1979. He has extensive experience in clinical psychology, human resource management and, since 2001, experience in the treatment of men who have sexually offended against children. Jim is registered with the New Zealand Psychologists Board and is a full member of the New Zealand Psychological Society.

May has been the Whanau/Family worker at Wellington STOP Inc. for 5 years. She is currently working with families of adolescent and adult perpetrators and she is actively promoting the health and well-being of all whanau members.

Manaaki te wharetangata me te Atuatanga o nga tamariki

Work to free whanau from abuse and oppression

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.