John Hristoforidis

John is a compassionate and empathic Accredited Mental Health Social Worker who holds a Master of Counselling Social Work. John has been working in direct clinical practice for over ten years and enjoys working with people from diverse and varied backgrounds. John’s professional interests include trauma and complex trauma, eating disorders and disordered eating, sexuality and working with LGBTIQ+ communities. John also provides therapy for carers of people with eating disorders. John has a keen passion for family therapy and building family/carer resilience. His passion extends to building workforce capacity, empowering individual clinicians and teams, quality improvement and striving to achieve access and equity for people living with eating disorders, their carers, family and significant others. John was recently the District Eating Disorders Co-Ordinator for a Metro Health District where he developed better care pathways, Models of Care and services.