After working in child and adolescent psychiatry for 20 years in the Netherlands, where she developed the award-winning Sleeping Dogs method, she became director of the Institute for Chronically Traumatized Children in Perth. The ICTC delivers Fly-In-Fly-Out specialized trauma treatment for children and families in remote areas in Australia and New Zealand and provides training and supervision on trauma and dissociation internationally. She is a member of the Child and Adolescent Committee for the European Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation and EMDR Special Interest Group Dissociation.