Accredited Mental Health Social Work Practitioner

Quyen Mai is an accredited mental health social worker. She has been serving in

private practice for over 10 years. Her work involves working with children, adults

and Suicide Prevention Services clients.

Prior to opening her private practice, Quyen was employed by CatholicCare, where

her work included counselling and mentoring people facing challenges associated

with long-term unemployment resulting from substance disorders and impaired

mental health. Quyen has facilitated a large number of AOD (alcohol and other

drugs) support groups throughout the Northern & Western regions of Melbourne,

undertaking extensive casework and as an AOD counsellor until 2014. Quyen has

facilitated many parenting programs and couples’ programs for members of Victoria’s

Vietnamese community.

Born in Vietnam, Quyen and her family fled the country by boat following the nation’s

protracted military conflict and subsequent communist rule. Quyen, her parents and

her seven siblings spent 19 months in Malaysian refugee camps before being

accepted for entry into Australia. In 1984, Quyen’s family was sponsored to live in

San Isidore, a small rural community on the outskirts of Wagga Wagga in regional

New South Wales.  

Quyen completed her bachelor’s degree in education, in 1993, and furthered her

capacity to serve through attainment of a Bachelor of Social Work in 2012. Quyen is

deeply experienced serving those impacted by substance disorders, trauma and with

the CALD (culturally and linguistically diverse) community.

Quyen wakes each day feeling blessed that those many years ago, this nation

embraced her and her family, and supported her with the opportunities she has

diligently pursued. She is tremendously proud of her 4 adult children and finds great

joy in hiking Australia’s great wilderness regions as part of her self-care.