About us

Andrew and Brett have over 50 years combined experience working in public mental health and have been providing training in the mental health field as ‘Our Curious Minds’ since 2014 establishing a reputation for quality, relevance and reliability.

Andrew and Brett are experienced mental health clinicians, working with complex, high-risk clients who actively practice what they teach. Their training therefore delivers applied solutions that are both evidence based and practical.

They deliver training and consultancy to a range of service sectors including:

  • Mental Health and Wellbeing 
  • Alcohol & Other Drug
  • Court Support Services
  • Legal Practitioners
  • Financial Counselling
  • Social Welfare
  • Child and Family Support Agencies

Organisations that have benefited from their expertise and guidance include:

  • NEAMI
  • cohealth
  • Eastern Health
  • Launch Housing
  • Alfred Health
  • Wintringham
  • Sacred Heart Mission
  • Werribee Mercy Mental Health
  • Forensicare
  • Mental Health Concern (UK)
  • Anytown, Brisbane
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Brett Bridges - About Our Curious Minds

Brett Bridges

Brett is a practising mental health clinician, mental health consultant, educator, trainer and therapist. His extensive experience includes the specialist fields of personality disorder, acute mental health, complex care, forensic mental health, alcohol and other drugs, intellectual disability and corrections. He has previously held senior clinical roles at Spectrum (Personality Disorders Service for Victoria) and Forensicare (Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health).

Brett has demonstrable success in consulting to organisational and systemic complexity and challenge, activating critical thinking, enhanced practices and key interventions that will enable a more functional and capable response to clients with mental health issues. This includes utilising recovery focused and trauma informed thinking in response to complex care issues and significant risk challenges.

Brett is highly skilled in engaging multiple service providers in complex care scenarios where hostile or fractured work practices, systemic anxiety, dysfunction and paralysis have emerged. His services include: education, training, consultation, supervision and primary intervention.

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Andrew Carroll - About Our Curious Minds

Andrew Carroll

Andrew is a forensic psychiatrist who has worked in public mental health for over 25 years in both Australia and the UK. He has extensive experience working in both clinical and managerial roles in a range of forensic and general mental health services. He worked for 6 years on a rehabilitation unit at the high secure Thomas Embling Hospital in Melbourne.

Currently, he works as the visiting psychiatrist to a large men’s prison in Victoria. He also has a busy private practice, which involves forensic assessment work for various agencies including Victoria Legal Aid, the Drug Court, the Office of Public Prosecutions, MACNI (the Multiple and Complex Needs Initiative), Department of Health and Human Services (Victoria) and the TAC. He regularly provides expert medicolegal opinions for private law firms, including opinions regarding ‘standard of care’ in the context of claims of negligence against mental health services.

He has published extensively in the field of risk assessment, forensic mental health service provision, clinical decision-making and violence. He previously held the role of Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychiatry at Monash University and is now an Associate Professor (Adjunct) at the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science at Swinburne University of Technology. He also holds an honorary role at the University of Melbourne Department of Psychiatry.

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