Russ is a registered Forensic and Counselling Psychologist, with over 20-years experience. Between 1998 and 2010, Russ was the Manager and Senior Clinician of the AWARE program (providing therapeutic services for sexually abusive youth) at the South Eastern Centre Against Sexual Assault (SECASA). He has significant experience in complex cases involving children and adolescents, sexual assault victims and survivors of all ages, adult sex offenders, children with sexual behaviour problems and adolescents who sexually harm. Between 2010 and 2017, he was one of two specialist Statewide Principal Practitioners in the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services, with responsibility for Child Protection practice across the state of Victoria. Russ researches pornography and its impact on sexually abusive youth, and youth sexual practice in general.. Since 2017, he has owned and been the Director of Prime Forensic Psychology, a specialist psychological practice in Forensic Issues. Russ is well-published and has presented at over 60 national and international conferences. He is an ANZATSA Board Member, a Member of ATSA’s Juvenile Issues Committee, an ATSA Fellow, and a Board Member of the National Adolescent Perpetrator Network (NAPN: USA). He has appeared as a witness in VCAT, Magistrates, County and Supreme Courts in Victoria, and South Australia. In 2016, he appeared before the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, being well-referenced in the final report.
