Mr Steve Brimstone is a psychology graduate of the University of Queensland. Mr Brimstone has been in practice for almost forty-eight years.

Steve’s areas of clinical interest comprise substance misuse, gambling, mood disorders, anxiety, trauma and workplace stress injury. He has a long-standing involvement in private practice service provision to Veterans and serving military personnel.

Steve participated in Dept of Veterans’ Affairs Queensland regional psychology service panels from the early 1980’s through to 2010. He has been a Visiting Psychologist to Greenslopes Repatriation General Hospital (1984-91), Sunshine Coast Private Hospital (Psychiatry Unit (2005-08), 1st Military Hospital and 2nd Field Hospital (ADF; 1991-2002). Over the last 20 years, Steve has provided services to VVCS/open arms as both a clinician and a group programs facilitator.

In 2006, he was appointed to the Expert Reference Group of the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Learning. More recently, Steve has been a member of the Brisbane North PHN (previously Medicare Local) Clinical Governance Reference Committee (2013-17) and the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal (Psychology Panel; 2015-current).

Steve was a Psychology Advisor to the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, a role he performed for 17 years to 2021. Currently Steve is a member of the Departments of Defence and Veteran’s Affairs Human Research Ethics Committee, a position he has held since 2017. Steve is a mentor in pain management for the Australian Pain society and president’s mentorship program which is designed to assist in early career clinicians in the field.