Dr Ros Lethbridge is a clinical psychologist, lawyer and senior clinical specialist at Phoenix Australia - Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health, where her work centres on translating trauma-related evidence into practice. She is a project team lead in policy and service development projects for government, high risk, legal, and community organisations, building capacity to understand, prevent, and promote worker recovery from trauma. Ros supervises the treating clinicians in Phoenix Australia's Responder Assist clinical treatment service. She was the project manager and content developer for the NHMRC-approved Australian Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, ASD and complex PTSD and led the dissemination of those Guidelines. Recently Ros led a project for the Victorian Legal Services Board + Commissioner, consulting with the legal sector in Victorian, NSW and WA, and developing a discussion paper on mitigating the impact of vicarious trauma in the legal profession.

Ros also works with the judiciary in various capacities. She developed substantive educative projects for the judiciary on family violence, mentoring, wellbeing, and systemic change within the courts, and provides psychology services to individual judges under various court judicial wellbeing programs. Ros has extensive clinical experience in the evidence-based treatment of PTSD. As a senior psychologist at Austin Health she treated veterans and emergency service workers who experienced psychological trauma.

Ros has a particular interest in the intersection of health, law, and ethics. From 2014 she was involved in the regulation of the profession of psychology as an AHPRA Panel and then Board member, in 2021 completing her appointment to the ACT/Tas/Vic Regional Board of the Psychology Board of Australia as Presiding Member. She has current appointments to the Patient Review Panel (Deputy Chair) and the Justice Human Research Ethics Committee.

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