Instructor Profile

Teresa Coffey is the director of WorkPlace Interventions and is a WorkCover, health, safety and wellbeing professional with a real passion for improving mental health, particularly in the workplace. Teresa regularly supports businesses to create mentally healthier workplaces, this includes establishing mental health first aid officers. With businesses of all sizes benefiting from MHFA training; Teresa delivers energetic and vibrant sessions; utilising relevant workplace examples to engage audience participation and consolidate learning.

Teresa is also an ASORC registered Rehabilitation Counsellor, and delivers WorkSafe Original Employer Services, including facilitated discussion (FA), which specialises in mental injuries.

Teresa Coffey has a diverse background in education, business and health having managed over 17 years of corporate consultancies locally and nationally. Her University work has included teaching Cert III, Cert IV & Diploma in personal injury management at Deakin/WorkSafe.

As a point of difference, Teresa is an experienced trainer, with a sound background in psychology, which includes a Bachelor in Psychology studies, a Bachelor in Exercise Science and Human Movement and recently undertaken a Masters in Rehabilitation Counselling. Other qualifications include: Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessing, Diploma in Personal Injury Management, and Certificate IV in OHS.

As an approved and experienced WorkSafe trainer, Teresa Coffey frequently delivers Return to Work Training and OHS and HSR courses, which coupled with her experience and qualifications offers workplaces a holistic, engaging and workplace specific mental health approach to assisting individuals as well as organisations proactively manage mental health problems. Teresa delivers standard MHFA as well as the blended MHFA course, with an option of delivering the session at an employer site.

Teresa regularly delivers standard MHFA, Blended Workplace courses, Refresher SMHFA and MHFA for the Suicidal Person, and is a sought after facilitator. Please feel free to review Teresa's profile on Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/teresa-coffey-7427a942/