Horatio brings over 28 years of not-for-profit experience as a frontline worker, manager, and workplace wellbeing expert. He founded a therapy practice and EAP service dedicated to supporting not-for-profit organisations and their people.

Throughout his career, Horatio has worked with children and families in out-of-home care, people with disabilities, homeless youth, and asylum seekers. He is an accredited Gestalt psychotherapist with specialist training in group crisis intervention and the Yalom method. As an accredited Compassion Fatigue Educator with the Green Cross Academy of Traumatology, he focuses on supporting individuals and teams affected by secondary and vicarious trauma.

Horatio’s Master’s research examined organizational responses to vicarious trauma in the workforce. For nearly a decade, he has designed and delivered training in compassion fatigue, self-care, and trauma-responsive leadership for the sector. His approach is relational and centered on building psychologically safe, sustainable, human-centred workplaces.