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.