#5 Speaking with Forensic Psychologist William Wainright

William Wainwright is a Forensic Psychologist with over twelve years experience working in both Australia and the United Kingdom in a variety of fields involving the assessment and treatment of forensic clients and their victims. He currently works with the wellbeing team for Victoria police.

I think most of us are attracted to the field of psychology because we want to help people right? But what about helping those people that many think don’t deserve help? Or even worse think are beyond help? Listen to this episode to hear what drives William to work with one of our fields most challenging and complex populations.

William completed his Masters of Psychology in Sussex England in 1999, and a Masters of Criminology (Forensic) at Melbourne University in 2004.

William worked for six years as a psychologist then Senior Psychologist and Supervisor with ‘Corrections Victoria Sex Offenders Program‘ focussing primarily on assessing and treating sexual and violent offenders within the prison system.

He has worked as a Consultant Forensic Psychologist in a number of areas including:

the Forensic Intensive Program and Treatment, London UK, treating violent offenders with personality disorders

the Melbourne Adolescent Positive Program Sexuality (MAPPS) where he facilitated cognitive behavioural treatment based groups aimed at reducing sexual offending behaviours in 14-18 year old males

the PPC Group providing critical incident debriefing, wellbeing assessment and training

More recently he spent four years at the Disability Forensic Assessment and Treatment Centre working with intellectually disabled sexual and violent offenders.

Visit the website to check out all the links that William spoke about and his best self-care tip for early career psychologists.