Steph is a performance and production welfare specialist, intimacy coordinator, is a film lecturer and workshop facilitator, a writer-director-producer at Enigma Films, and Psychotherapist. She is an alumni from the renowned WAAPA Acting School in (1992), with a Bachelor or Performing Arts Directing (2005), a Graduate Dip. of Psychotherapies & Counselling (2015) and Master of Counselling (2017).
Steph has worked coordinating welfare or intimacy on TV series such as Itch 2 (Kommix Entertainment/ABC), 5 Bedrooms (Hoodlum/Paramount +), Population 11 (Stan/Lionsgate), and films like Girl In The Window (Kismet), The Eastfield Exorcism, My Eyes, Petrol, The Scan, Blood Out Of Stone, Prawn, and for stage shows such as The Effect (Fremantle Theatre Company), Hungry Ghosts (Melbourne Theatre Company), Traps (La Mama), Gruesome Playground Objects (St Martin’s Theatre), and more productions. Steph has been interviewed by media such as ABC Radio, The Guardian, Equity and IF magazines.
She has run workshops, written programs and educated for a number of stakeholders such as The National Theatre Drama School, JMC Academy Melbourne, Curtin University, 16th Street Studios, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Swinburne University, Opera Scholars Australia, Women in Film & TV Australia, Stage School Australia and the AICN and KIS Intimacy Training. She has been Guest Speaker on panels for Melbourne International Film Festival (Innovation & Inclusive Practices), St Kilda Film Festival (Diversity & Inclusion), The Time Project UK (Crew Welfare Study), Media Entertainment Arts Alliance (Industry Welfare) and been a Welfare Consultant for the Production Portal (Industry Mental Health), Queensland University of Technology/Griffin Film School, and Screen Queensland for the Australia’s Screen Industry Mental Health Survey.
Steph has worked with local and international performers (in person, online, on-set or location) with both screen and theatre performers. Due to confidentiality clients cannot be listed. Please see the ‘Performance Coaching’ tab for more information. She has also worked with local and international clients in the entertainment industry in her counselling practice suites, online and by phone. Due to confidentiality clients cannot be listed. Clients are mostly from the entertainment sector, their family and friends, managers/agents with Creative clients from outside the Entertainment Industry also welcome.
“My work continues to adapt to the needs of an ever-changing industry, providing informed services to individuals, productions, educators and stakeholders.” STEPH POWER