Sara's career spans some of Queensland's most complex and sensitive areas of care — including senior practice roles supporting victim-survivors of domestic and sexual trauma at Micah Projects, therapeutic support for children and families affected by childhood cancer at Redkite, foster care and out-of-home care supervision, and hospital-based social work at Rockhampton Base Hospital across medical, palliative, and emergency settings.

 

She holds additional qualifications in Play Therapy, trauma-informed practice, family therapy, and the Circle of Security parenting model, and has supervised youth workers, foster carers, and student social workers throughout her career.

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At Steady Nest, Sara draws on this depth of experience across perinatal support, before and after school care, and independent living support for older clients — and, given her post-graduate qualification in supervision and years spent coaching and mentoring practitioners, will also take on a supervision role for Steady Nest's student placements.

 

​​Before social work, Sara trained as a qualified Nanny, and that early grounding in hands-on childcare has never really left her. She is also a mother and grandmother, and recently stepped back from the workforce for a period to focus on family caregiving responsibilities — an experience that's given her a firsthand understanding of the pressures multi-generational families carry, and the practical, everyday support that makes the biggest difference.  

 

Sara is passionate about achieving the best possible outcomes for children and families, bringing a strengths-based, person-centred approach to everyone she works with.