Michael Riley

Michael Riley is an experienced accredited Counsellor, Couples Therapist, licenced Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner (FDRP), nationally accredited Mediator, Clinical Supervisor, Coach, Group-Work Facilitator and Trainer, Juvenile Justice DFV Consultant & Restorative Justice Conference Convenor, Men’s Behaviour Change Specialist, DCJ Family Group Conference Mediator and Education Consultant. He has also held leadership and senior management roles with Toll Holdings, Corrections NSW and Relationships Australia. 

Over the past 30 years, Michael has worked across NSW Corrections, Relationships Australia, Juvenile Justice, Family and Community Services, and in private practice with organisations including Johnson and Johnson, RAAF, Fairfax, Toll Holdings, Innovation Services, Lane Cove Council, Wahroonga Rotary, Energy Aust, Outside the Locker Room, Synapse Carers and others. He holds postgraduate qualifications in Relationship Counselling, Mediation Practice, and Men’s Behavioural Change: Working with Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse. 

Michael works from a client-centred, systemic therapy and solution-based approach, balanced with a trauma-informed lens grounded in compassion, respect and understanding. His focus is on learned optimism to support grief and loss, anxiety, depression and suicide prevention, alongside developing emotional intelligence, personal integrity and interpersonal growth.