Threat Management and Psychological Services
ABOUT US
Mastering the Method in Madness
Right in the Head offers practical, effective responses to issues such as aggression, stalking, threats of violence, and social media misuse. With expertise in operational threat management, forensic psychology, and clinical mental health treatment, our staff provide accessible, tailored responses for addressing difficult and intrusive behaviours in the community or workplace.
Our clients include global private companies, universities and TAFE providers, government agencies, courts and law firms. Through research, practice and collaboration with international experts in law, cyber security, criminal profiling, and threat assessment, Right In The Head provides clients with best-practice training and advice for maintaining safety and accountability.
Our clients include global private companies, universities and TAFE providers, government agencies, courts and law firms. Through research, practice and collaboration with international experts in law, cyber security, criminal profiling, and threat assessment, Right In The Head provides clients with best-practice training and advice for maintaining safety and accountability.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't." ~ Shakespeare
Dr Annabel Chan
Annabel is a registered Clinical & Forensic Psychologist with over 13 years of clinical and leadership experience in settings including youth and adult prisons, universities, hospitals, community, and private practice in Singapore and Australia.
After her role as the founding manager of the
Safer Community and BRAM (Behavioural Risk Assessment Management)
teams for Swinburne University, she commenced in threat assessment and management consultancy, providing risk assessment, supervision, and threat management services to universities, global businesses, and government agencies. She has combined her passion for the internet and threat assessment in the study of online interpersonal harm.
Annabel also works therapeutically with children, adolescents, families, and offenders in private practice, and is a Consultant Psychologist with the Children's Court Clinic of Victoria providing specialised risk assessments of high-risk families and youth offenders.
Annabel also works therapeutically with children, adolescents, families, and offenders in private practice, and is a Consultant Psychologist with the Children's Court Clinic of Victoria providing specialised risk assessments of high-risk families and youth offenders.
Annabel is the National Secretary for the Asia Pacific Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (
APATAP
) and Australia and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Law (
ANZAPPL
), and a committee member of the
APS Forensic College
.
Clinical & Forensic Psychologist
Threat Consultant
Threat Consultant
Luke Bartlett
Luke Bartlett is a Registered Nurse and Lead Trainer with Right in the Head, with over 15 years of experience in acute and forensic care, clinical education, curriculum development, simulation and telehealth practice.
As a project coordinator with Forensicare, Luke managed the rollout of a world-first clinical program providing rapid mental health assessment and reporting to Magistrates' Courts in Melbourne, Australia, and continues in clinical practice with adults, children, and adolescents, in hospital and prison settings.
Luke is the producer of the TAPwrap podcast, delivers training in behavioural threat assessment and management, and provides specialist advice on Internet-facilitated harm and risks presented by online extremist groups.
He is a committee member with the Asia Pacific Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (APATAP) and the Australian & New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law (state branch).
As a project coordinator with Forensicare, Luke managed the rollout of a world-first clinical program providing rapid mental health assessment and reporting to Magistrates' Courts in Melbourne, Australia, and continues in clinical practice with adults, children, and adolescents, in hospital and prison settings.
Luke is the producer of the TAPwrap podcast, delivers training in behavioural threat assessment and management, and provides specialist advice on Internet-facilitated harm and risks presented by online extremist groups.
He is a committee member with the Asia Pacific Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (APATAP) and the Australian & New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law (state branch).
Mental Health Clinician
Lead Trainer
BLOGS & PUBLICATIONS
TALENT ON TAP
Right In The Head consults and collaborates with international colleagues with expertise in law, emergency management, cyber security, industrial relations, and criminal behavioural profiling to allow us to provide holistic assessments and advice to our clients that incorporate multi-disciplinary expertise. Some of our esteemed talents on tap are featured here.
Dr Troy McEwan
Talent: Stalking & Family Violence Research & Assessment
Dr Troy McEwan is a clinical and forensic psychologist based in Melbourne, Australia. She is a co-author of the Stalking Risk Profile (SRP) - an established tool used internationally for the assessment of stalking risks. She is a Senior Lecturer in Clinical and Forensic psychology at the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science, Swinburne University of Technology, and also maintains an active clinical role, working as a Senior Psychologist within the Problem Behaviour Program at Forensicare.
Her primary research interests are improving understanding, assessment and treatment of complex criminal behaviours, particularly stalking, family violence and deliberate firesetting. In addition to co-authoring three risk assessment instruments for stalking and family violence, all in use in Australia and internationally, Dr McEwan has also undertaken a number of field evaluations of risk assessment instruments in both mental health and police settings. She has close working relationships with Victoria Police and Netherlands National Police, and has been involved in implementation and evaluation of risk assessment approaches for stalking and intimate partner violence with both agencies.
Dr McEwan has published over 45 journal articles and book chapters on stalking, family violence, and other problem behaviours. In 2017 she received an Australian Crime and Violence Prevention Gold Award from the Australian Government as a member of a research consortium aiming to improve police risk assessment and management of family violence. She regularly provides advice to government and police agencies, businesses, and organisations in the mental health and education sectors on specific cases of threats or stalking, in addition to facilitating training in Australia and internationally on the topics of stalking assessment and risk assessment.
Her primary research interests are improving understanding, assessment and treatment of complex criminal behaviours, particularly stalking, family violence and deliberate firesetting. In addition to co-authoring three risk assessment instruments for stalking and family violence, all in use in Australia and internationally, Dr McEwan has also undertaken a number of field evaluations of risk assessment instruments in both mental health and police settings. She has close working relationships with Victoria Police and Netherlands National Police, and has been involved in implementation and evaluation of risk assessment approaches for stalking and intimate partner violence with both agencies.
Dr McEwan has published over 45 journal articles and book chapters on stalking, family violence, and other problem behaviours. In 2017 she received an Australian Crime and Violence Prevention Gold Award from the Australian Government as a member of a research consortium aiming to improve police risk assessment and management of family violence. She regularly provides advice to government and police agencies, businesses, and organisations in the mental health and education sectors on specific cases of threats or stalking, in addition to facilitating training in Australia and internationally on the topics of stalking assessment and risk assessment.
Dr Michael Davis
Talent: Criminal Profiling & Sexual Homicide Assessment
Dr Michael Davis is a Consultant Forensic and Clinical Psychologist in full time private practice with adjunct research positions at several universities. He has presented nationally and internationally on the topics of violence risk assessment, psychopathy, offender profiling, equivocal death, behavioural crime linkage, paraphilias, and other aspects of sexual and violent crime.
Dr Davis has conducted hundreds of risk assessments for the courts and in consultation for area mental health services, government departments, and private lawyers. The focus of Dr Davis' consulting practice is on clinical forensic assessment (particularly the assessment of risk, personality disorder, and sexual deviance) and providing behavioural investigative advice to police agencies.
Dr Davis is a member of the Australian Forensic Reference Group (AFRG - Victoria Police) and regularly provides assistance to the Behavioural Analysis Unit. He has provided behavioural investigative advice to police in several different countries and is the only mental health professional in Australia to be elected to membership of the International Criminal Investigative Analysis Fellowship (ICIAF). He also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling and was on the editorial board of the International Journal of Forensic Mental Health. He was previously the Victorian Branch Chair and National Deputy Chair of the APS College of Forensic Psychologists.
Dr Davis is a member of the Australian Forensic Reference Group (AFRG - Victoria Police) and regularly provides assistance to the Behavioural Analysis Unit. He has provided behavioural investigative advice to police in several different countries and is the only mental health professional in Australia to be elected to membership of the International Criminal Investigative Analysis Fellowship (ICIAF). He also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling and was on the editorial board of the International Journal of Forensic Mental Health. He was previously the Victorian Branch Chair and National Deputy Chair of the APS College of Forensic Psychologists.
Dr Lorraine Sheridan
Talent: Cyber Stalking & Family Violence Research & Assessment
Dr Lorraine Sheridan is a Chartered Forensic Psychologist. She completed Europe's first PhD on stalking and has so far published four books and more than 50 papers on the subject. Her research has taken an applied, interventionist angle and she frequently trains professionals involved in investigating stalking crimes.
Lorraine was one of a very few civilians to be accredited as a Behavioural Investigative Advisor by the UK police. Her work centred on risk and threat assessment and management, mainly pertaining to cases of stalking. She provided reports on known and unknown offenders, advised on investigative and interview strategies, and assessed impact on victims. In conjunction with the police lead on stalking, she created an assessment instrument to be used by serving officers in cases of stalking.
She regularly gives case management advice to the police, security personnel, celebrities and others on stalking, harassment, violence, risk assessment, malicious communications and similar topics. After a long stint as a senior academic in universities in the UK, Lorraine is now a part-time senior researcher at Curtin University in Perth. She is a founder member of the Association of European Threat Assessment Professionals. Recently, her risk checklist for stalking has been adopted by most English and Welsh police forces and partner agencies.
