Maria Ruberto is the founder and director of Salutegenics Psychology, a strengths-based practice that moves people in personal and professional spaces toward mental fitness and life-health.

Maria is a psychologist and certified neuropsychotherapist with over 25 years of experience in education, clinical and industry platforms.

Her work is based on the theory of Salutogenesis where wellbeing is built from the development of positive human assets, including affective functioning and strengths-based skills.

Her work has included consulting to Beyond Blue as Instructional Director; of SenseAbility; ReachOut.com as a Development Practitioner of online mental health training; Travancore School of Mental Health which is a partnership with the Royal Children’s Hospital; Orygen Youth Mental Health and Education; and Swinburne University as a conduit for schools within Emotional Intelligence training.

The core mission of her work is moving young people and adults from languishing to flourishing, with respect, resilience and resolve.

If you came here looking for Maria’s sister’s famous lemon cake recipe, look no further

Cake

• 150g butter
• 1 1/3 cups castor sugar
• 3 eggs
• 100ml milk
• 1/3 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice
• 1 tbl finely grated lemon rind
• 1 1/3 cups plain flour
• 1 cup self-raising flour

1. pre-heat oven to 180˚
2. Wisk butter, sugar, eggs, milk, lemon juice and rind in a bowl.
3. Add plain flour and self-raising flour
4. Pour into prepared pan
5. Bake for 40-45 mins

Icing

• 1 cup pure icing sugar
• 25ml lemon juice
• lemon rind / zest for decoration

1. combine sifted icing sugar with lemon juice in a bowl
2. mix well
3. spoon icing over cake that has completely cooled down
4. decorate with lemon rind