Effie Zafirakis

Independent Consultant

Dr. Effie Zafirakis is a qualified lawyer, forensic psychologist & art therapist with a keen interest in therapeutic justice. Her current professional and research interests are in the areas of promoting more holistic, responsive & integrated collaborative care system responses, Aboriginal therapeutic justice models and trauma-informed policy and service systems. She has extensively lectured in the tertiary education sector, primarily at RMIT University in Melbourne in the Justice & Legal Studies, Criminology & Psychology and the Juris Doctor in law programs. Dr Zafirakis has also practiced as a duty solicitor with Victoria Legal Aid. She is an active committee member of the Reconciliation and Advancement Committee and the Children and Youth Issues Committee– Law Institute of Victoria (LIV).