Additional Training

Below are some of the additional professional training I have undertaken over the last 23 years.

  • Group Leadership Training – Healthy Lifestyles (2001)
  • The Clinical Use of Meditation: Metta Clinic
  • Identifying and Responding to Risk of Harm – Advanced Level: Centacare Learning Network; Centacare, Sydney
  • Carer Sensitive Counselling Workshop: Carers NSW (accredited)
  • 25th Australian Family Therapy Conference (2005)
  • Clinical Report Writing and Note Taking in Child Protection and Court Related Matters: Carol Boland
  • Uses of Art and Play in Therapy: Rosa Bologna, Psychologist  (15 hrs) (2006)
  • Object Relations Couple and Family Therapy: David Scharff, M.D. and Jill Savage Scharff, M.D  (15 hrs)
  • Domestic Violence Assessment Training: Relationships Australia (NSW)
  • Trauma workshop: Dr. Laurie McKinnon (2007)
  • Frontiers of Trauma Treatment with Children and Young People: Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, Australian Childhood Foundation
  • Gestalt and Couple Therapy: Steve Vinay Gunther (14 hrs)
  • The Art of Relationship Counselling: Doug Sotheren (70 hrs) (2008)
  • Dual Diagnosis Training: TAFE, Lismore (28 hrs)
  • 29th Australian Family Therapy Conference (2009)
  • Case Management: Working with People with Complex Needs: DoCS
  • Trauma and Attachment: Complex Care
  • Triple P (group & seminar) Practitioner training (32 hrs) (accredited) (2009)
  • Tweed Shire Integrated Response to Domestic and Family Violence Training
  • Engaging Adolescents Practitioner Training: Parent Shop (accredited)
  • 30th Australian Family Therapy Conference (2010)
  • Transforming Childhood Trauma: Connecting with Empathy and Compassion: Dr. Bruce Perry
  • 31st Australian Family Therapy Conference (2011)
  • Passion and Presence: Using Mindfulness to Explore the Many Faces of Sexual Desire: Maci Daye, LPC And Halko Weiss, Ph.D  (24 hrs)
  • Introduction to Systemic Family Therapy Supervision: Suzanne Barr and Julie Wilson-Hirst  (24 hrs) (2011)
  • Enhanced and Pathways Triple P (parenting intervention for parents at risk of maltreating their children) Practitioner training (32 hrs) (accredited)
  • A Systemic Approach to Clinical Supervision: Dr Paolo Bertrando, MD, PhD.   (14 hrs) (2012)
  • EMDR level 1: Graham Tailor – Therapist Training (25 hrs) (2013)
  • 34th Australian Family Therapy Conference (2013)
  • Attachment Based Family Therapy For Depressed and Suicidal Adolescents Level 1 and 2:  Queensland University of Technology and Drexel University, Pennsylvania USA (40 hrs) (Level 2 Accredited 2014) 
  • Attachment Based Family Therapy online group supervision (50 sessions x 1.5hrs fortnightly) with ABFT trainers from the USA, Dr. Suzanne Levy
    Queensland University of Technology and Queensland Health, Child and Youth Mental Health Services, Assoc. Prof. Ingrid Wagner
  • 35th Australian Family Therapy Conference (2014)
  • Collaborative Couple Therapy : Dr. Dan Wile (15hrs) (2017)
  • Treating PTSD: Dr. Leah Giarratano (15 hrs)
  • EMDR Skills Training: Dr. Jennifer Sweeton (14 hrs) 
  • EMDR level 2: Graham Tailor – Therapist Training (25 hrs) (2020)
  • The Essentials: Training Clinicians in Eating Disorders
    Inside Out: Institute for Eating Disorders (16 hrs) (2020)
  • Structural Dissociation and EMDR – Dr Roger Solomon (17 hrs) (2021)
  • Parent Hope and Parent Confidence Project: Dr. Jenny Brown – Family Systems Institute (Level 2 accredited) (2021)
  • Focusing- Foundation 1: Focusing Australia  (25 hrs)
  • EMDR Disaster Response Training – R-TEP & G-TEP: Dr. Jenny Dwyer, EMDR Academy (16hrs) 
  • Introduction to the DMM (Dynamic Maturational Model of Attachment and Adaptation): Dr. Clark Baim 
  • Attachment, Neurodevelopment & Psychopathology: Dr. Patricia Crittenden & Andrea Landini – Tavistock Institute (25hrs) 
  • Attachment Narrative Therapy 1 & 2: Dr. Rudi Dallos & Dr. Arlene Vetere – Institute of Family Therapy UK (50hrs) 
  • Voice Dialogue – Relationships: The Dance of Merging and Individuation – Ana Barner (14hrs)
  • Focusing (Foundation 2) – Focusing Australia (25 hrs)
  • Essential Skills for Psychedelic Assisted Therapy Training (CPAT) – Psychedelic Institute Australia (50hrs)
  • Treating Dissociative Disorders with EMDR: The Progressive Approach
    EMDR Therapy for Suicidal Clients and Self-harming Behaviors
    – Working with Hostile Voices and Parts of the Personality in Complex Trauma and Dissociative Disorders
    Dolores Mosquera – EMDR Advanced Training
    (18 hrs)
  • Mentalization Based Treatment – Basic Training: Attachment Based Treatment of Personality Disorders
    Professor Anthony Bateman – Mentalization Based Treatment Australia Group (21 hrs)
  • EMDR and Insecure Attachment – Anabel Gonzalez (12 hrs)
  • Reflective Functioning on the Adult Attachment Interview – Anna Freud Centre, London (22 hrs)