Susie Klein

     

Artist Resumé

Education & Qualifications

  • Drumbeat Therapist
  • Student Support Officer – Beyond the Broncos Girls Academy
  • President – Aim High Counselling Pty Ltd
  • Business Owner – Susie Klein Self-Expressive and Creative Arts Counselling
  • Bond University – Family Dispute Resolution Qualifications
  • The University of Queensland – Mental health, Rural and Indigenous health, Rural Clinical School (Toowoomba): Currently in training to be an Australian Suicide Intervention Skills Trainer (ASIST) and Indigenous Network Suicide Intervention Skills Trainer (INSIST)
  • Cedar Centre: Certificate IV in Training and Assessment
  • James Cook University: Bachelor of Educational Studies
  • Community Training Australia: Diploma of Counselling
  • Far North Queensland TAFE: Diploma of Education (ATSI)
  • University of Southern Queensland: Certificate of Education (ATSI)
  • Brisbane North Institue of TAFE: Diploma of Community Services Work
  • South West Institute of TAFE: Certificate IV Small Business Studies

Other Achievements:

  •  PESI – Certificate of Successful Completion:
    • Mastering the Craft of Treating Trauma: Four Core Skills
    • Attachment Centred Play Therapy: Repair Relational Trauma  and Build Secure Attachment to Accelerate Family Treatment
    • David Kessler on Healing Grief & Loss
    •  Art Therapy: Creative Interventions for Kids with Trauma, ADHD, Mood Disorders & More
    • Overcoming Trauma­ Related Shame and Self­ Loathing with  Janina Fisher, Ph.D.
    • Therapeutic Art Interventions for Children and Teens: Creative Ways to Calm Anxiety, Reduce Social Withdrawal, & Diffuse Anger and Rage
    • Trauma Defined: Bessel van der Kolk on The Body Keeps The Score
    • Treating Trauma Clients at the Edge: How Brain Science Can Inform Intervention
    • The Essentials of Effective Trauma Treatment: How to Go Beyond Technique
    • The Ethics of Touch in Child Psychotherapy & Play Therapy
    • The Gottman Method Approach to Treating Trauma
    • Grief and Addiction
    • Healing from the Bottom Up: How to Help Clients Access Resource States with Peter Levine
    • Cultural and Historical Traumas: Invisible Barriers to Healing and Change
    • Trauma Treatment for Kids ­ Healing the Body Through Play:  Advanced Interactive Workshop
  • PESI – Certificate of Professional Recognition:
    • Essentials of Trauma Treatment: Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP) Training Course
    • Advanced Trauma Treatment for Children and Adolescents: A Certification Training on Healing the Body Through Play
  • Facilitator – Roma State College Senior Campus Flexi-School
  • Small Business Owner: Susie Klein, Engaging Communities Creatively: Counselling, Skills Training, Education, Creative and Experiential Artist
  • CatholicCare Social Services: Family Dispute Resolution Program – Family Advisor
  • Centacare Toowoomba: Triple P (Groups) Facilitator
  • NAIDOC Celebrations Roma: Artist of the Year Award 2015
  • Mentor
  • Reiki Master
  • Centacare Toowoomba: SeasonsTM Adults & Children and Young People’s Companion.  Seasons TM Trainer
  • Education Queensland: Big Picture… Hidden Histories Cultural Awareness Facilitator
  • Centacare Toowoomba: The Mental Health Assessment of Aboriginal Clients including accreditation in The Westerman Aboriginal Symptom Checklist for Youth
  • Creative Expression Arts Tutor– All Ages
  • Centacare Toowoomba: FOCCUS Facilitator
  • Member: Aboriginal Family Legal Service Southern Queensland Indigenous Corporation
  • Member: World Bodypainting Association
  • Mitchell State School, Community Education Counsellor
  • Centacare Toowoomba: The Gottman Institute: Level 1 Clinical Training – Gottman Method Couples Therapy, Bridging the Couple Chasm
 Training/Workshops :
  • Art Workshops for Residents – Pinaroo Roma Inc.
  • Susanne Daoud, Director of Juicy Body Art: Advanced BodyArt Workshop 2017
  • Maranoa Regional Council: Animating Spaces, Roma
  • Gallery 107 Dalby: Indigenous Art
  • Facepainting train the trainers
  • Balloon Twisting train the trainers
  • Self Expressive Creative Arts Class – mentoring
  • Junk Art Sculpture
  • Acrylic Painting – mentoring
  • Painting with Ochres
  • General Arts  & Crafts eg: beading, scrapbooking, duct tape creations, nail art, handbuilding pottery, sewing, collage, etc, etc.

Murals: (Acrylic)

  • Arcadia Valley, Roma, Yuleba, Dulacca, Condamine, St George, Surat, Thallon, Wyandra, Muckadilla, Mitchell, and Peek-a-Doo, Injune, Toowoomba, Brisbane.

 Art for Relaxation Program: (Pastels, Charcoal)

  • QLD: Roma, Charleville, Mitchell, Charleville, Cunnamulla, St George, Surat, Crows Nest, Toowoomba, Dalby, Stanthorpe, Townsville
  • NSW: Newcastle
  • OVERSEAS: Oʻahu (Hawaiʻi), Winnipeg (Canada) and Hamilton (New Zealand)

 Commissioned Artwork: (Acrylic, Mixed Media, Charcoal, Pastel, Liquid Glass, Junk)

  • QLD: Roma, Dirranbandi, Toowoomba, Stanthorpe , Chinchilla, Warwick, Goondiwindi, Brisbane, Gatton, Ipswich, Cairns
  • NSW: Sydney
  • ACT: Canberra
  • OVERSEAS: California, Iran, Cambridge, Hong Kong, Italy,

 Face & Body Painting:

  • Roma, Toowoomba, Wallumbilla, Yuleba
  • Australian Body Art Festival – Encouragement Award: 2015 Face Painting category
  • Australian Body Art Festival – Participant in full bodypainting: 2017 Sponge & Brush and Special FX categories

Exhibitions:

  • Roma, Cunnamulla and Surat