Keryn Foley

Name: Keryn Foley
Position/Title: FDRP & Family Counsellor
Business/Employer: Centacare SW NSW
Business Area: Healthcare and Social Services
Phone: 0412 897 093
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keryn-foley-3a34954a/

Keryn joined Centacare South West NSW in 2018, she has worked as a mediator since 2002 as a Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner since 2007 and as child consultant from 2017. She has worked with parents, grandparents and children in the context of family breakdown, grief and loss, separation and divorce. Her practice is child focused and child inclusive. Also provided psycho educational group sessions to support parents following separation and talking with parents about the effects of conflict on children.

Keryn’s previous roles include adjunct lecturer at Charles Sturt University in the Dispute Resolution program, ministerial appointee for Community Justice Centre and volunteer counsellor, community educator and trainer for the Australian Breastfeeding Association from 1993 – 2017.

Keryn graduated from Charles Sturt University in 2014 with a Masters in Dispute Resolution and has training in family mediation, family group conferencing, elder and workplace mediation, transformative and restorative justice models, as well as recognising and responding to situations involving abuse and neglect.

Keryn is an accredited Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner with the Attorney Generals Department and an Accredited Mediator with the Mediation Standards Board and affiliated with PACFA.