Tess is a neurological physiotherapist and physiotherapy lecturer at La Trobe, teaching into the entry to practice physiotherapy courses. She is passionate about supporting students to become lifelong learners and discover their area of passion within physiotherapy.  

Her neurological physiotherapy experience has spanned the acute, subacute and community settings and has included working in the statewide atraumatic spinal cord injury rehabilitation unit and the statewide acquired brain injury rehabilitation unit. She has a particular interest in working with clients after severe traumatic brain injury, including those in persistent disorders of consciousness.