Christophe is an accredited mental health social worker with the Australian Associated of Social Workers (AASW) and his core area of interest and passion is mental health recovery, believing that hope and recovery is possible despite the often-overwhelming nature of the mental health recovery journey.Since beginning his practice in 2009, Christophe has experience in working with a diverse range of client backgrounds based on his practice in the fields of youth, child protection, intellectual disability, refugee resettlement, and mental health. Christophe draws upon authentic, strengths based, collaborative, and person-centred approaches and principles and draws heavily from trauma informed, community development, social justice and feminist practice frameworks.More specifically, Christophe adopts the approaches/interventions of:- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), - Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT),- Schema Therapy (ST)- Specialist Supportive Clinical Management (SSCM), - Motivational Interviewing (MI),- Solutions Focused, and- Creative expressionAside from his mental health work, Christophe values time as a father and family man, musician and camper. He appreciates (in no particular order) the various things to do with music, art, the natural environment and universe, diversity, adversity, the unusual /strange, and world cup football.