Terry Melvin is a documentary film-maker and photographer with a special interest in community projects. He has made films about artists and Aboriginal Elders, refugee communities, neighbourhood houses, community music projects and festivals, disability advocates, separated fathers and community engagement projects for men. He has taught to digital story making in a range of community settings.

Terry is also a registered psychologist and has worked as a counsellor and psychologist for 30 years in a variety of settings, specialising in working with men in both clinical and service management roles.

Terry established and managed Mensline Australia, the national telephone counselling, information and referral service for men dealing with family and relationship concerns. Terry worked for many years in the field of men’s family violence both as a clinician and program manager. He managed a national three-year Research and Intervention Project, looking at best practice issues for delivering intervention programs for men and their families in a relationship-counselling context. He has worked as corporate consultant and trainer with the National Centre for Gender & Cultural Diversity at Swinburne University of Technology, where he worked in largely masculine cultures and the impact of these work environments on men. He was a senior psychologist and coordinator of Health and Wellbeing at the Gippsland Campus of Monash University.

Qualifications

B.A (Psych) (University of WA)

B.Ed (Counselling) (Latrobe University)

Member of the Australian Psychological Society

Member of the Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency

Board Member, ‘Life Is’ Foundation

Former Board Member, ‘Male Health Victoria’

Former Board Member, ‘Australian Men’s Health Forum’