Therapeutic Care &
Practice Consultant
in Melbourne, Australia

"Adela’s contribution to Uniting over the past eight years — three as a consultant and five as an employee — has been nothing short of transformative. Adela not only wrote the model that underpins our Out of Home Care (OoHC) practice today, but also led the team that brought it to life."

Amy Padgham, General Manager People, Quality & Strategy, Uniting VicTas

"Adela has an elegant clinical mind. She also has an enduring compassion for children and young people who may have suffered a lot of adversity during their early years, but I have always found her compassion to be tempered by clear-headed analysis."

Ric Pawsey, Founding Clinical Director, Berry Street Take Two Program

"I have seen firsthand the tremendous impact of the models Adela has created – she is gifted not only in the articulation of what works and why – but after a model has been created Adela is extremely adept at supporting people to ‘go on the journey’ of bringing a model to life."

Sarah Hawkins, Social Worker & Therapeutic Specialist

"I found Adela’s supervision to be supportive, containing and successful. We built a working relationship that represented not only the values of the organisation but provided a utility that served the goals of the children in the program in a way that to date I had not had previously or since."

Tony Wheeler, Private Consultant Therapeutic Specialist

"One word to describe Adela Holmes? Empowering! I can’t recommend Adela Holmes highly enough because she is nothing short of a superhero that happens to specialise in therapeutic care & practice."

Rohan Parrant, Consultant Therapeutic Care Specialist