The ANZACATA Board 2026-27

Helen Killmier (Australia)

Chairperson

Helen is founder and CEO of Guidestar, a certified B Corporation established in 2017. Guidestar runs a psychology and counselling clinic, delivers sector training, and is a registered NDIS provider supporting people with multiple and complex needs through a trauma-informed approach. It has grown to 32 staff and more than 300 clients, and was the 2022 Victorian winner of the Telstra Best of Business Awards (Community Impact).

Helen has extensive leadership experience in not-for-profit and government agencies, spanning strategy, change management, governance and NDIS leadership across disability, mental health, homelessness, alcohol and other drugs, justice and local government.

A registered Community Psychologist and Board Approved Supervisor, Helen is a Member of the Australian Psychological Society and the Australian Association of Psychologists, a Fellow of the APS College of Community Psychologists and a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Christine Fitzherbert OAM (Australia)

Deputy Chairperson

Christine is CEO and General Manager of St Kilda Police Citizens & Youth Club (PCYC) and principal of Fitzherbert & Associates Consulting. Her expertise spans governance, business and financial management, people management, and cultural and organisational change.

Christine has extensive experience across the public and private sectors, including more than 20 years in health. She was Executive Director, Human Resources and Organisational Development at Melbourne Health (Royal Melbourne Hospital), and before that Executive Director, Human Resources at Southern Health (now Monash Health). At RMIT University, she was Director of the Human Resources Management Group and Director, Workplace Reform. She has also been a sessional senior lecturer in politics at Monash University.

In 2024, Christine was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to the community.

Deborah French AThR (Aotearoa New Zealand)

Deborah is a Registered Arts Therapist and NZAC-registered counsellor in private practice in Taranaki, Aotearoa New Zealand. She holds a Master’s degree in Arts Therapy and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Studies and Educational Psychology, and is a registered teacher.

Her career spans private practice, schools, hospice and community settings. Much of her current work is through ACC Sensitive Claims, Aoake te Rā, government agencies and EAP providers. She supports people across the lifespan, focusing on trauma, grief, loss and significant life transitions.

Deborah is also a practising ceramic artist with a strong interest in permaculture and how connections with the earth, creativity and culture can enrich Arts Therapy practice. An ANZACATA-approved supervisor and Board member, she is committed to the visibility, recognition and sustainability of the profession.

Kimberly Howeler AThR (Australia)

Kimberly is a Registered Arts Therapist (AThR) and Integrative Hypno-Psychotherapist working with all ages, individually and in groups, across Melbourne, Adelaide and online.

Her clients include people navigating trauma, family violence, addiction recovery, neurodivergence, stroke and dementia. She integrates both modalities to support people when words are hard to find or habits no longer serve them.

Before retraining, Kimberly completed an MBA (UniSA) and worked in senior business and stakeholder roles. She now brings that experience to her practice and enjoys supporting recent graduates as they build theirs. As a Non-Executive Director on the ANZACATA Board, she champions greater recognition of creative arts therapy.

She holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts, Master of Therapeutic Arts Practice (MIECAT), Graduate Certificate in Mental Health (Victoria University) and Diploma of Integrative Hypno-Psychotherapy (ICHP).

Su Mei Tan MA, AThR, RYT (Australia)

Su Mei is the Founder and Lead Art Therapist at Art Tearapy, a Melbourne-based social enterprise with services extending to Kuala Lumpur. She also works as a family art therapist, yoga therapist and arts-based supervisor. She holds a Master’s degree in Art Therapy and is a Registered Arts Therapist (AThR) and Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT).

Su Mei uses art to support people who have experienced trauma, grief and significant life changes, particularly first- and second-generation immigrants, refugees and First Nations people. Informed by her journey as an immigrant, she blends art, yoga and movement therapy, and has developed and led programs in Melbourne areas including Footscray and Hawthorn. In Kuala Lumpur, she fosters creativity, mindfulness and emotional wellbeing among diverse communities. She leads a team of creative arts therapists and assistants.

Theresa Van Lith PhD, ATR-BC, AThR (Australia)

Dr Van Lith is an Associate Professor and Course Coordinator at La Trobe University, Melbourne. She was previously Associate Professor and Clinical Coordinator at Florida State University. Her research began with art therapy in mental health recovery, later expanding in the US to evaluation methods and research approaches across populations. She has been Principal Investigator on projects including group art therapy for children with ASD, early intervention art therapy with Latinx farmworker children, and mindfulness-based and technology-assisted art therapy for university students experiencing anxiety and stress.

She is active in the American Art Therapy Association (AATA) and co-edits its professional journal. Her awards include the AATA Seed Grant (2021), National Endowment for the Arts Research Award (2020), AATA Rawley Silver Research Award (2017) and Florida State University’s Transformation Through Teaching Award (2016).

Cindy Yeung REAT, AThR (Hong Kong)

Cindy is a Registered Expressive Arts Therapist and an Assistant Lecturer at the University of Hong Kong. She has provided individual and group interventions to children, adolescents and adults in collaboration with schools and NGOs. She now works with a wider range of clients, including gifted individuals and those with special educational needs, people experiencing emotional distress or relationship difficulties, and people living with mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety. She also offers parenting and emotional support to parents.

She provides psychotherapy both online and in person, helping people cope better with life’s challenges. Cindy offers clinical supervision, teaching and placement consultation for expressive arts therapy students. She is also dedicated to promoting expressive arts therapy in Hong Kong and advocates for greater awareness of mental health among the general public.