Board of Directors

Dr Boris Fedoric - National President, Chair and Director

FASRC, MCDAA, MRCAA, Comcare Accredited
B. Biotech. (Hons), PhD (Medicine), M. Hum. Serv. (Rehabilitation Counselling)

Boris is a Professional Member, National President and Chair of the Australian Society of Rehabilitation Counsellors (ASORC). He is also a Professional Member of Career Development Association of Australia and Rehabilitation Counselling Association of Australasia (RCAA). Boris' professional goal is to improve vocational rehabilitation through provision of best practice service, innovation and technology. As such he has designed numerous services and products to improve RTW outcomes. His areas of specialisation are complex physical and psychological injuries with medico-legal barriers and mediation needs. Boris is a regular contributor in peer publications, grant funded research and has been an invited speaker on injury management principles, vocational assessments, early intervention and emotional intelligence in the workplace.

Boris has been a Director of Career Bug Pty Ltd since 2015 and WorkGain since 2017. Prior to starting at Career Bug, he was General Manager at a national rehabilitation firm in Adelaide from 2012-2015 and also worked at EML for 1.5 years in case management and team leader functions.

Boris has been a member since 2012 and was elected to Council/Board in 2015.

Assoc Prof Christine Randall – National Vice-President, Director

FASRC, SFHEA
BPhty; MHuServ(RC)(Hons)s; PhD

Dr Christine Randall is an Associate Professor and the Postgraduate Program Director for Rehabilitation Counselling, Mental Health Practice and Human Services in the School of Health Sciences and Social Work. Christine convenes and teaches injury management, job development and other postgraduate courses, as well as convening field placement for postgraduate students in rehabilitation counselling. 

Christine’s learning and teaching interests focus on the development of the future health workforce via effective work integrated learning, inter-professional learning and simulation-based learning, as well as developing professional identity in rehabilitation counselling students. Christine provides Learning and Teaching leadership chairing various committees at the school level and has represented her school on the Interprofessional and Simulation Based Learning Advisory Committee and the Health Group Learning and Teaching Committee. From mid 2021 to the end of 2023, Christine was appointed to the Health Group Interprofessional Learning Lead role.

Christine’s research interests include occupational rehabilitation systems in organisations and workplace stress, rehabilitation counselling competencies, disability management, and case management. Christine’s doctoral research utilized Action Research to identify the issues related to occupational stress and rehabilitation systems within a large Australian organization to develop more effective integrated systems of stress and injury prevention and rehabilitation.

Christine is a founding director of the Rehabilitation Counselling Association of Australasia (RCAA) and has contributed to research about the skills and knowledge of the rehabilitation counselling profession and the development of current accreditation standards for rehabilitation counselling programs in Australasian universities. Since taking up the presidency of RCAA for the second time in 2021, Christine took the lead on behalf of the RCAA board on developing new collaborations with ASORC to promote the rehabilitation counselling profession eventually resulting in the merger of the two associations. Christine is the current Vice President of ASORC and has been on the Board since the merger took effect early in 2024.

Scott Trevithick - Company Secretary and Director

MASRC
B. Psychology (Hons)

Scott is a Recovery Claims Specialist with WorkSafe Victoria. His background includes leadership in the field of rehabilitation counselling and psychological injury in Australia and the UK. Scott has held senior appointments in occupational rehabilitation case management, life insurance & CTP case management, private medical and employer funded healthcare, workers’ compensation, public liability, life insurance and CTP.

Scott has been an ASORC member since 2000. He was elected to the ASORC Board as a Director in 2019 and was appointed Company Secretary in 2019.

Torsten Becht  – Director

MASRC
B Physiotherapy; Masters in Human Services (Rehabilitation Counselling), B Business 

Torsten started his career in physiotherapy, spending several years in sports medicine before moving into occupational rehabilitation. For over 15 years, Torsten spent time at WorkCover Queensland, with the Department of Defence's Military Occupational Rehabilitation Team, working for a rehabilitation provider, and leading the in-house workplace rehabilitation team for the Suncorp Group. Torsten gained experience in workers compensation, income protection and disability insurance during this time and completed his Masters in Human Services (Rehabilitation Counselling).

Torsten's career path then changed with a move into human resources, where he has spent the past 15 years in various operational and strategic HR roles. These roles have covered risk & compliance, policy development, finance and governance, people strategy, HR operations, leadership and organisational development. Torsten has worked for aged care and health care providers during this time and held accountability for wellbeing and EAP programs at several large organisations. 

Torsten was previously a trustee director of a Rio Tinto subsidiary employer-sponsored superannuation fund, secretary of the Nambour Community Centre Management Committee, and served as Vice President of RCAA for 3 years, prior to the ASORC/RCAA merger.

Torsten joined ASORC Board in 2025.

Prof Nicholas Buys – Director

MASRC
PhD (Philosophy), M. Science, B. Arts (Honours)

Professor Nicholas Buys is currently the Director of the RISE Research Unit, which is focussed on research and consultancy addressing issues impacting employees in the workplace. He was the Dean, Learning & Teaching in the Health Group at Griffith University from 2006 and 2022, during which the Group has grew to be one of the most comprehensive health faculties of any University in Australia in terms of the breadth of degrees offered. He was responsible for introducing a range of strategies to address retention, graduate success, student satisfaction, as well as increase the enrolment of students from disadvantaged groups.

Formerly, Professor Buys was Head, School of Human Services and Social Work and Director of the Research Centre for Human Services at Griffith. His professional background is in the area of rehabilitation counselling, in which he worked in positions in both the public and private sectors. He has attracted several national learning and teaching grants and over $5 million in research and industry-linked commercial grant funding. Professor Buys has 250 peer reviewed publications in the areas such as learning and teaching, vocational rehabilitation, disability management, chronic disease prevention and health promotion. He has developed international collaborations with researchers in the USA, China, Canada, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Sweden and the Netherlands.

Nick joined ASORC Board in 2023 following the ASORC/RCAA merger.

Alexa Locke – Director

MASRC
Grad Dip (Rehabilitation Counselling), B. Science in Psychology

Alexa has worked in the occupational rehabilitation and employment services industries since 2008 in various roles including employer return to work coordinator, insurance injury management advisor, and rehabilitation consultant. She has experience working across Worker’s Insurance, CTP, NDIS, Lifetime Care and Support, Comcare, Disability Employment Services, and Life Insurance schemes. For the past eight years, she has worked in management roles in the occupational rehabilitation and employment services sector leading teams of allied health consultants working across compensable and non-compensable schemes.

From 2018 to 2021 Alexa sat on the steering committee for the Vocational Intervention Program, a specialised employment services program for people with traumatic brain injury in NSW delivered in partnership between vocational rehab providers and NSW Brain Injury Rehabilitation Program (BIRP) teams. She led a team that eventually took on the greatest number of referrals for this program throughout the Sydney metro area, developing strong connections between rehab providers, BIRP teams and other allied health professionals within the brain injury support space.

Alexa has eight years of experience as a people leader, currently serving as National Operations Manager (Recovery and Return to Work Services) for Resilia. She has demonstrated experience in achieving business outcomes and reaching financial and business development targets. Alexa led several teams through periods of growth and is proud to have trained and mentored numerous student and new graduate Rehabilitation Counsellors throughout her career. Alexa has also presented at previous ASORC professional development events.

As a person with an acquired disability (Alexa sustained an incomplete spinal cord injury in December 2015) and a NDIS participant, she brings a unique perspective to working in the role of Rehabilitation Counsellor in the emerging vocational assessment and employment support sector within the NDIS.

Alexa has been an ASORC member since 2012. She was elected to the ASORC Board in 2021.

Danielle Murphy - Director

MASRC
B. Health Science (Rehabilitation Counselling)

Danielle is an accomplished Rehabilitation Counsellor and Director of Incite Solutions Group in Western Australia. She has specialised in injury management and vocational rehabilitation for more than 20 years and has a passion for assisting veterans with their often-complex career transition.

Her authentic interpersonal skills, coupled with her sound business acumen including an adeptness to get to the heart of an issue quickly are assets to both her business and to the rehabilitation industry.

Danielle’s curiosity and perseverance remain ever-present qualities and her integrity is unquestionable so much so, she has made it a core value of Incite Solutions Group.

Danielle has been a member since 2003. She was a Councillor between 2013-2017, serving as National Secretary and National Vice President during that time. Danielle was elected to Board in 2021.

Assoc Prof Roxanna Pebdani - Director

MASRC
PhD (Counsellor Education), MS Rehabilitation Counselling, B. Psych

Roxanna is Director of Participation Sciences in the Sydney School of Health Sciences. She holds a bachelor's degree in Psychology from the American University of Paris, a master's degree in Rehabilitation Counselling from Syracuse University, and a Ph.D. in Counsellor Education from the University of Maryland. She completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Washington. She has been at the University of Sydney since July 2018.

Roxanna joined ASORC Board in 2023 following the ASORC/RCAA merger.

Peta Siggers - Director

CDAA, CICA, PHAA, AMMA
PhD GCert Career Development, GCert Suicidology, GCert Addiction Studies

Peta Siggers is an ASORC-accredited Rehabilitation Counsellor with a strong academic and clinical background. She currently works in Occupational Rehabilitation and has experience as an Academic Supervisor at La Trobe University for the Rehabilitation Counselling placement subject. Her experience spans rehabilitation counselling, public health, and governance; shaped by professional roles and provision of rehabilitation support within military, Government and corporate contexts. Peta is also a veteran, having served in the Australian Army as a Medic.

Peta is deeply committed to supporting the Veteran and Defence community and overall, she has a particular interest in vocational assessment and career development supports, recognising their critical role in enabling sustainable employment pathways and improving long-term wellbeing. She is also passionate about developing practical, plain-language resources that translate complex sector knowledge into tools practitioners can use to support clients in achieving their vocational and personal goals.

Peta’s research interests centre on rehabilitation counselling from a public health perspective, with a focus on evidence-based approaches that strengthen ethical service delivery, trauma-informed care and culturally safe frameworks. She is committed to advancing the profession through rigorous inquiry to ensure rehabilitation counselling contributes meaningfully to broader health systems and policy.

Recently appointed as a Director within ASORC, Peta aims to contribute to governance, risk management, research and sector advocacy. Her work is guided by principles of integrity, collaboration, and lifelong learning, with a strong focus on mentoring, capacity building, and inspiring sector-wide change.

Peta joined ASORC Board in 2025.