Our Team
Meet Our Director
Dr Zali O’Dea
Director, Counsellor & Educator
PhD
Masters in Counselling
Bachelor of Education
Dr Zali O'Dea is the Founding Director and Principal Counsellor/Educator of Karibu Anawim 'Welcome to The Way of Victory'. Karibu Anawim trains, equips and nurtures individuals as well as their family members living with facial disfigurement, offering consultancy and professional development to professionals. Zali regularly presents and is involved nationally and internationally to educate relevant parties, raising awareness about the issues pertaining to living with facial disfigurement and facial eye disfigurement. Dr Zali is a published researcher in this field as well as holding an insider status. She is a survivor of a car accident as a newborn and lives with third nerve palsy. Zali thrives on helping people realise their full potential, knowing very well the limitations society places on people living with facial disfigurement. She enjoys assisting people find 'The Way of Victory' in their own lives. Dr Zali is a qualified and experienced researcher, speaker, teacher, counsellor, and mum.
PUBLICATIONS
This article is a case study of the lived experience of Toni, a 27-year-old woman living with Facial Eye Disfigurement (FED), the result of her treatment for ocular cancer. Not all people can overcome and conquer LwFED in a healthy manner, but the difference in Toni’s story is when faced with death through cancer, Toni chose to reflect and realign her life to her values and invent a new life living with facial eye disfigurement for herself and her family.
O'Dea, Z., & Southcott, J. (2023). “My Mummy Has a Hole in Her Face”: Living with Facial Eye Disfigurement. The Qualitative Report, 28(11), 2995-3015.
Mandy provided her rich expert experience of what it is to mother a child living with Facial Eye Disfigurement. Within the two lengthy interviews given three years apart, we see the hum of the overarching themes of vigilance, isolation, facing society as mother, grief and faith. As a mother, she encounters comments and stares from strangers in social situations. Our participant uses her strong faith to attempt to find balance in her life and to envisage a future for her son.
O’Dea, Z., Southcott, J. (2023). “I’m his Mum and it is My Job to Keep him Safe”: Mothering a Child Living with Facial Eye Disfigurement. Applied Research Quality Life 18, 2579-2604 (2023).
My own experience throughout primary, secondary, and, also tertiary education, clearly requires educators to be educated. Teachers' perceptions matter.
O'Dea, Z. (2018). The Ayes have it! The Qualitative Report, 23 (10), 2313-2336.
Special Ethical Considerations for Facially Distinctive Counsellors (2015)
Counselling Australia
Raises issues such as:
• Discrimination: obtaining and retaining clients
• Use of self disclosure: to retain and build rapport with clients therefore lessening discrimination.
O'Dea, Z. (2015). Special Ethical Considerations for Facially Distinctive Counsellors. Counselling Australia, 15(3), 28-32.
ACCREDITATIONS:
• Australian Counselling Association
(Member no. 7819)
• Victorian Institute of Teaching
(Reg no. 321957)
• Member of the Golden Key International Honor Society (being in the top 15% Masters in Counselling) Member since 2012
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