Our Practitioners
Meet the team behind Behaviour Bridge. We are not just report writers — we are experienced practitioners who have worked on the frontline of complex disability support. We know what it takes to manage high-risk behaviours in the real world.
Julianne Shepley
Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner | Founder
Julianne brings an unusually analytical lens to Positive Behaviour Support — one shaped by her background in both Psychology and Criminology and Justice. Where others see a behaviour, Julianne sees a pattern: the antecedents, the function, the systemic factors, and the risk trajectory. That forensic way of thinking is what makes her particularly effective with the cases most providers won’t take on.
With 5 years of experience in the disability sector, Julianne specialises in the most complex end of the caseload — severe aggression, self-injurious behaviour, and situations involving large support teams, restrictive practices, and significant risk of harm to the person or others. She has extensive experience working alongside justice-involved individuals and those transitioning out of the prison system, where the intersection of trauma, behaviour, and systemic disadvantage demands a practitioner who can hold complexity without simplifying it.
Qualifications: Bachelor of Psychology, Criminology and Justice | Masters of Applied Behaviour Analysis (Candidate) | Diploma of Counselling
Registration: NDIS Registered Proficient Behaviour Support Practitioner
Professional Memberships: Behaviour Support Practitioners Australia | Association for Behaviour Analysis Australia | Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies
Previous Experience: Psychosocial Case Manager (Justice) | Disability Support Worker
Alicia Mulligan
Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner | Northern Corridor
Alicia specialises in the complex end of paediatric and adolescent behaviour support — particularly with children and young people who have Autism Spectrum Disorder Level 3 and are non-verbal or minimally verbal. These are not straightforward caseloads. The presentations Alicia works with regularly include high-frequency, high-intensity self-injurious behaviour such as head-banging and self-biting, severe physical aggression toward caregivers and peers driven by unmet sensory and communicative needs, prolonged emotional dysregulation episodes that cannot be verbally redirected, and complex sleep disturbance profiles that compound daytime behaviour. She also works extensively with demand avoidance presentations where standard reinforcement-based approaches fail, and with children whose behaviour has escalated to the point of school exclusion or family breakdown.
What makes Alicia effective in these cases is her ability to translate functional behaviour assessment findings into strategies that are genuinely usable by families and education staff — people who are often exhausted, under-resourced, and have already tried everything else. She brings patience, clinical precision, and a deep understanding of the sensory and communicative world of non-verbal autism.
Qualifications: Bachelor of Psychology (Honours)
Registration: NDIS Registered Core Behaviour Support Practitioner
Previous Experience: Early intervention | School-based support | In-home support | Education Assistant implementing Behaviour Support Plans
Have a Complex Case?
We are currently accepting new referrals across the Northern Corridor and Perth Metro. If you have a participant with escalating behaviours and a team that needs practical guidance, reach out today.
