Management Board

Current Chairperson, nominated to return as Management Board Chairperson for 2022.

OAM, ADHD WA Management Board Chair, Member of ADHD WA Professional Advisory Body, ADHD Coach and Consultant.

Michele has been supporting people with ADHD since 1995 through ADHD WA, and currently serves on the Board and PAB. She has completed a PhD in the field of ADHD. Aside from her academic qualifications Michele’s coach training is extensive. She completed her basic studies with CoachU in 2009, and then went on to study advanced coaching techniques with the ADD Coach Academy (ADDCA). She holds coaching credentials with the International Coach Federation (ICF) and the Professional Association of ADHD Coaches (PAAC). She is a member of the teaching faculty at the ADD Coach Academy, and a registered mentor coach.

Michele coaches adults, university students, high school students and parents to achieve their goals. Her coaching creates an ongoing collaborative partnership employing her extensive, ADHD knowledge, best coaching practices, and ADHD-friendly skills & tools to bring about positive personal and professional change for her clients. Together with her clients she observes what is preventing them from reaching specific goals, explores ways in which they can maximize strengths, talents, and passion, and designs strategies to suit the ADHD client’s learning, processing, and organisation styles.

Ali Martin is an accomplished purpose-led marketing and communications professional with a strong history of success delivering effective campaigns, motivating high performing teams and engaging partner support.

She has worked across diverse industries delivering strategic marketing and communications for nearly 20 years. Her experience includes leading marketing and communications teams at WA Museum, Water Corporation, The University of Western Australia, and the Department of Sport, Local Government and Cultural Industries. Her current role as Senior Marketing Officer at the State Government’s Small Business Development Corporation sees her help WA small businesses to start well, survive and thrive.

Ali is passionate about the capacity of community organisations to support cohesion, advocacy and improved health and wellbeing, both at a community and individual level. She is proud to have supported the WA arts and media communities through her volunteer leadership roles at Propel Youth Arts, The Last Great Hunt theatre company, The Blue Room Theatre, and Women In Media WA. In these volunteer roles, she has collaborated with her peers to support rigorous conversations, drive corporate strategy, assess financial sustainability, and engage key stakeholders.

Outside of work, you will find Ali walking her greyhound Amy Grace, dabbling in pottery and treating her nieces and nephews to ‘Aunty Ali Arts Outings’.

Ali’s pronouns are she/her.

Mary joined ADHD WA in January 2022 as a family member and was appointed to the Board in March 2022.

Mary has sat on numerous boards in varying roles and in 2016 graduated from the Australian Institute for Company Directors (AICD) and attended subsequent PD in “The role of the Not for Profit Chair”, “Governance in the NFP sector” and “Financial Performance for NFP’s.

Since 2011, Mary has worked at Developmental Disability WA and in January 2018, she was promoted to CEO. Many members of DDWA have the shared experience of developmental disability and ADHD, so Mary has both personal and professional understanding of the specific issues people with ADHD face. Personally, Mary has supported a family member who did not receive a diagnosis until post school, which explained the many difficulties they faced at school and the need for greater awareness of ADHD.

Mary has a Bachelor of Social Science (Human Service Management) and a Certificate in Child Care. Her diverse experience has included living-in with families in the UK who have children with significant disabilities, managing professional development for disability service providers and managing a disability support service in the Pilbara for 11 years. This remote experience has a unique insight into the complexities of living and providing services so far from Perth, particularly the specific needs of aboriginal families who are living with disability.

Lily joined ADHD WA as a family member in July 2020.  She was then appointed as Treasurer for ADHD WA in the AGM of June 2021.  Lily has been working from home since December 2007 as a SMSF Tax Accountant.  She completed a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) in 1996, a Graduate Diploma in Banking & Finance in 2000 and a CPA course in 2017.  She is a currently a member of Chartered Accountants, having transferred from her CPA membership in 2017.

Lily is married with two children.  Lily’s previous voluntary works include the following:

• Chief Executive Officer for Table Tennis Western Australia, Inc.
• eBook Coordinator for Music and China Tours of a local high school.
• Graduation Coordinator, Swimming Trials & Carnival Coordinator and Auditor of the P & C Association of a local primary school.

Lily is currently the Treasurer of a Music Support Group of a local high school and is assisting at their Second-Hand Uniform Shop.

With an accounting background and over 24 years working experience, plus a passion in volunteering, she believes she can effectively contribute to ADHD WA by efficiently managing board funds and finances, including planning, budgeting, reporting, record keeping and performing accounting functions.

Simone is the WA Operations Manager at Kalparrin, a not-for-profit organisation providing support and services to families raising children, aged 0-25 years with disability or additional needs. She has many years of professional experience in communications and community development roles within the disability sector. Simone’s qualifications include a BA in Community Development and Sociology from Murdoch University.

Simone’s career has included strategic and corporate communications, stakeholder relations, community development programs, and community engagement. Simone has lived experience of raising children with ADHD and is passionate about using her professional and personal experience to contribute to the work that ADHD WA undertakes to support people with ADHD, and their families.

Dr Langsford has a PhD in Educational Psychology, a Bachelor of Education with First-Class Honours, and a Bachelor of Psychology and has been conducting assessments in private practice since establishing Psychological & Educational Consultancy Services (PECS) in Subiaco in 1999.

PECS has grown from being a single practitioner practice to now comprising seven staff who conduct assessments, under Dr Langsford’s continued guidance, for ADHD, Specific Learning Disorder (aka Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Dyscalculia), and Intellectual Developmental Disorder. Dr Langsford is a Registered Psychologist with the Psychology Board of Australia (PBA) and the Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency (AHPRA).

Dr Langsford is a full member of the Australian Psychological Society (APS), Australian Association of Psychologists (AAPi), Australian ADHD Professionals Association (AADPA), ADHD WA, and the School Psychologist’s Association of Western Australia (SPAWA). Dr Langsford is also an APS College of Educational & Developmental Psychologists Academic Member. To be awarded Full Academic Member status, an individual has to have completed a PhD in psychology, have at least two years’ experience as a researcher or educator in psychology in the College specific area of practice, and have published a notable body of relevant research in the College-specific area of practice.

In 2015, Dr Langsford was personally selected from a shortlist by the then Federal Minister of Health (the Hon Sussan Ley) to be part of the 13-member Mental Health Expert Reference Group (MHERG). The group was formed to provide advice to the Commonwealth Department of Health in relation to the government’s response to the National Review of Mental Health Programmes and Services. Dr Langsford was the only practising psychologist in Australia appointed to the group, and the only member in the group from Western Australia. For full details, please see registeredpsychologist.com.au/pecs-profile.

With regards to ADHD, Dr Langsford has conducted in excess of 5000 ADHD assessments, was asked in 2014 to be on the National Shire ADHD Expert Panel for the “A Snapshot of ADHD: A Consumer and Community Discussion”, and from 2018-2020 participated in the ADHD Institute’s “Meeting of the Minds” international forums which are an invite-only meeting in Europe “providing a forum for ADHD scientists and clinicians to discuss the latest scientific evidence and share best practice in the management of ADHD”.

Dr Langsford’s PhD topic fostered an extensive knowledge of a wide range of disorders and led to the creation of the award-winning PsychProfiler, which is oriented to the DSM-5 and has been the most widely used Australian global psychiatric/psychological/educational assessment tool since 2004.

Dr Kate Reid-Milligan is a locally trained General Practitioner with an interest in child, adolescent and women’s health. She has a particular appreciation and understanding of ADHD and neurodiversity. In all of her work, Kate applies a strong focus to self-care, promotion of wellness and disease prevention.

Kate holds an Honours degree in Neuroscience and worked in research prior to studying Medicine at the University of Western Australia, where she graduated with Honours in 2010. She is a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and also holds Diplomas in child health and women’s health. 

Kate balances clinical practice with delivering medical education to GPs in training who are working towards fellowship in WA (previously through WAGPET and now through the RACGP).

I provide assessment and treatment of ADHD in teenagers and adults, starting at about 16 and continuing into later life as needs be. I am in full-time private practice in Nedlands. My focus is on medication treatment and I liaise closely with colleagues who provide the essential aspects of a multimodal treatment approach e.g. psychologists and coaches.

I have over 30 years experience treating ADHD, as well as being involved in published research, and supporting community and professional ADHD groups. Specifically, I’ve been on the Professional Advisory Body of ADHD WA since 1994 and on the management Board since 2017.

Catherine Natale joined ADHD (WA) as a member of the board of management in June 2019 and has overseen the membership and marketing portfolios. She has over twenty five years experience in sales and marketing in the food and liquor wholesale industry and is currently the founding director of Traceable Sustainable Provenance. Catherine has a Bachelor of Arts (UWA), Grad Diploma Business (Marketing) and Master of Business Administration. She has a special interest in marketing strategy formulation and initiated ADHD (WA) Walk and Talks and You’re Invited Picnics in 2019. She feels privileged to be involved with such a visionary, proactive, professional organisation that offers support to parents of children with ADHD, adults with ADHD and health professionals.