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Since establishing the charity, we have recognised that trauma affects people from all walks of life. Our work has expanded beyond veterans, first responders, and their families to also support people impacted by betrayal, crime, domestic violence, childhood trauma, disability, grief, and chronic illness.
PTSD Resurrected is helping lead the way in moral injury recovery in Australia through peer-led, evidence-informed trauma healing courses that are independently evaluated by qualified professionals.
Meet Andy and Zoe Cullen, the founders of PTSD Resurrected. They established the charity based on their own lived experience with PTSD, which profoundly impacted their young family.
Together they fought their way through the many challenges that living with PTSD brings. They released a book of their experience Resurrected – A Story of Hope, and founded PTSD Resurrected in 2017 to restore hope to individuals and their families struggling with moral injury and trauma as a result of their service.
Andy Cullen is a 17-year veteran of the Australian Army, having served six years as a soldier in the Royal Australian Infantry before commissioning as an officer in the Royal Australian Engineers. Much of his military career focused on Explosive Ordnance Disposal and counter-IED operations. Andy deployed twice to Afghanistan and was awarded a Commendation for Distinguished Service for his service on operations.
Following his military career, Andy experienced the profound impacts of PTSD, depression, suicidality and moral injury. These challenges affected not only Andy, but also his wife Zoe and their four children, giving them a deeply personal understanding of the way service-related trauma can impact an entire family.
Today, Andy is the Founder and CEO of PTSD Resurrected Inc., where his lived experience, military background and years of working alongside veterans, first responders and their families inform his approach to trauma and moral injury recovery. He is a Westpac Social Change Fellow and continues to advocate nationally for better pathways to recovery, stronger support for service families, and greater recognition of moral injury.
Zoe Cullen is President of PTSD Resurrected Inc. and brings the perspective of a military spouse, mother, advocate and lived-experience leader to the organisation’s work. After university, Zoe married into Army life, with her own career and family life often shaped by the demands of military service, deployments and the long-term impacts of trauma.
Through her family’s experience of PTSD and recovery, Zoe has become passionate about giving voice to the partners, caregivers and children whose experiences can often go unseen or unheard. She is particularly committed to recognising the impact of service-related trauma on relationships and families, and to ensuring they are included in conversations about recovery.
Together, Andy and Zoe bring both sides of the lived experience of service-related trauma — the person who served and the family who served alongside them. Through PTSD Resurrected, they use that experience to help others understand trauma and moral injury, strengthen relationships, restore hope and create pathways toward recovery and purpose.
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Sean and Leanne, along with their four beautiful children, began their journey with PTSD Resurrected Inc. in 2018. The couple participated in the second intake of graduates for the Reboot Combat Recovery course. This course helped Sean and Leanne better address and navigate difficult conversations in their marriage and family while dealing with the traumas of PTSD.
Sean served with the Australia Defence Force (Army) for 14 years. He spent half this career, working with the Royal Australian Artillery with an Airborne Capability. In his first year of enlistment he was deployed to East Timor, when the country was classified as a war zone. Sean transferred to the Petroleum Operation Unit for the latter half of his career and completed two more deployments of Timor Lest’e before discharging from the Army with the rank of Sergeant in 2013.
Sean worked the Oil and gas fields of Barrow Island in Western Australia for 2 years, before completing an Advanced Diploma in Management and Security and worked on behalf of the ADF for another 2 years. He was diagnosed with PTSD in 2017 and on medical grounds was advised to cease employment to focus on his health and recovery.
Leanne has had working experience in the Mining Industry as a Safety and Training Officer and also in the Mental Health Industry as Disability Employment Consultant. With these experiences, she has witnessed first-hand the stigma behind mental health in these industries.
Upon completion of other Mental Health Courses, by far the Reboot Recovery Combat Course addressed the moral injuries and also involved couples and families. Her passion is for others in the course to be equipped as she was to support their partner and source help for themselves as support network.
Simon & Xenia are founders of Gold Coast based charity At The Ark Inc. ATA is a registered charity, set up to support families in the recovery of child sexual abuse & families impacted by domestic & family violence. They equip organisations such as churches, childcare centre, schools & families, on protection & prevention of child abuse & domestic violence.
Xenia is an international author of four books, three of which empower families, educators, and professionals to teach self-protective behaviours. Her autobiography, Broken to Be Beautiful, recounts her journey through a 15-year domestic violent marriage and how she rediscovered herself through Christ to become an advocate for the voiceless. Xenia’s eBook on child protection is available for free on their website. A qualified counsellor, pastor, and public speaker, she was named Gold Coast Woman of the Year and a Westfield Local Hero in 2020.
Simon has over 20 years of experience in ministry and the non-profit sector in Australia and the UK, including work in Christian media. He is actively involved in running At The Ark and serves on the board of PTSD Resurrected. Simon and Xenia pastor a local church on the Gold Coast together.
At The Ark was established after discovering that four of Xenia’s children had been sexually abused by her first husband in the UK in 2007. Since then, their faith has guided them to answer God’s calling. As itinerant ministers with Minister Fellowship International, they travel Australia and the world, advocating for the protection of children and offering hope and empowerment to survivors of domestic violence.
Simon and Xenia are proud to collaborate with PTSD Resurrected to facilitate the highly successful REBOOT Trauma Recovery courses in Australia and globally.
For more information, visit www.attheark.org.au or www.xeniaschembri.com.
James John Arundel Wallace, AM is a retired Australian Army officer and a current lobbyist on social issues. Jim is the Chairman of the Australian Christian Lobby. Jim's extensive military career and lived experience makes him an ideal ambassador for PTSD Resurrected inc.
Wallace studied at the Royal Military College, Duntroon and the British Army Staff College.[4] He served in the Australian Army for 32 years, reaching the rank of brigadier.
His service included command of the Special Air Service Regiment (1988–1990). He was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1984.
