Psychotherapy background

After studying business (commerce) in Melbourne I studied psychology, psychotherapy, hypnosis, psychometrics, and education at the University of Southern California, and was trained in and practiced Gestalt therapy at the USC/County Los Angeles Medical Centre. I taught at USC medical campus, was joint recipient of the University’s teaching and research award related to a National Institutes of Mental Health grant, and served as research methods advisor in the School of Social Work, and as consultant for the California State psychometric testing program. Later, I held academic appointments at the American University Graduate School of Business (MBA) Washington D.C, and Georgetown University Medical School Department of Cardiology (Adjunct).

On returning to Australia I undertook further training in hypnosis through Melbourne University-Austin Hospital (Professor Graham Burrows). I completed the Australian Centre for Psychoanalysis four-year program and the Clinical Psychology Boards Programme while Clinical Psychology Registrar at the Austin Hospital, and was selected to particulate in the Department of Health (Victorian Government) ‘Clinical Issues in Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy’ twelve month program. I studied child psychoanalysis through the Monash University’s Child Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy program.

 

I am a member of the Australian Centre for Psychoanalysis, the International Society for the Psychoanalysis Study of Organisations, the International Society of Hypnosis, and an international member of the American Psychology Association. I have published and presented papers and workshops on clinical psychology, psychometrics, educational, and organisational topics.