Rory is a Social Worker and Psychotherapist at Humane Clinic and Co-Director of the Just Listening Community charity. He specialises in working compassionately with people who experience psychosis, contemplation of suicide, or other often misunderstood expressions of distress and survival. Rory’s practice is guided by radical Social Work principles, Dissociachotic theory, his love of human beings, and his disdain for injustice in our society.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts (History, Political Science) from the University of Western Australia and a Master of Social Work from Flinders University. Co-author of the Suicide Narratives approach, Rory facilitates training and education nationally and internationally alongside his Humane Clinic colleagues. He has designed an advocacy approach and decision-making capacity assessment tool that assists people subject to mental health treatment orders ensure that their rights under the Mental Health Act are upheld at legal hearings.