My Professional Qualifications and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) achievements:
- Certificate in Holistic Counselling and Holistic Life Coaching – ASHC
- Certificate in Meditation Teaching and Holistic Human Development – ASHC
- Statement in Narrative Approaches in Counselling – Tafe NSW
- Statement in Trauma-Informed Care – Tafe NSW
- Reflective Learning and Practice – ACAP
- Sustainability in Helping Professionals – ACAP
- Work Within a Structured Counselling Framework – AIPC
- Transactional Analysis 101 – Gregory Institute
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Certification Training Course with Lane Pederson – PDP/PESI
- Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) and Tapping: Evidence-Based, Mind-Body Treatment Approach to the Anxiety Spectrum Disorders and Pain – PDP/PESI
- Dr. Bessel van der Kolk on How the Body Keeps the Score: Intensive Trauma Treatment Course – PDP/PESI
- Logical and Critical Thinking – The University of Auckland
- Introduction to Couples Counselling – Counselling Resources
- Mental Skills Training for Sport and Health – Manchester Metropolitan University
- Food and Mood: Improving Mental Health Through Diet and Nutrition – Deakin University/Food & Mood Centre
- The Basic Schema Model, Methods, and Techniques – Schema Therapy Training Online
- Psychology Diploma – Centre of Excellence
- Advanced CBT Diploma – Centre of Excellence
- Couples and Family Therapy Diploma – Centre of Excellence
- Emotional Intelligence at Work – Coventry University
- Life Coaching Diploma – Centre of Excellence
- Mindfulness Certification – New Skills Academy
- Reinventing Resilience – ACAP
- Breaking Intergenerational Patterns of Trauma, Addictions, & Dark Secrets in Families – Trauma Education Essentials
- CBT 3D Simulation – ACAP
- Schema Therapy for Narcissistic Personality Disorder – Schema Therapy Training Online
- Schema Therapy in the Age of COVID-19 – Schema Therapy Training Online
- Getting Confident Working With Trauma Memories and PTSD – Schema Therapy Training Online
- National Symposium on Sportspersons’ Mental Health – Mental Health Foundation Australia
- Virtual Seniors’ Mental Health Forum – Mental Health Foundation Australia
- Virtual Substance Abuse & Mental Health Forum – Mental Health Foundation Australia
- Feelings of Incompetence with Julie Naylor – Counselling Resources
- Impacts of Social Media on Mental Health – Mental Health Foundation Australia
- Building a Healthy Adult ‘Self’: Interview with ACT Expert Professor Joseph Ciarrochi – Schema Therapy Training Online
- Food and Mental Health Webinar – Mental Health Foundation Australia
- Harnessing the Power of Perpetrator Ego States with Lisa Schwarz, M.Ed – Trauma Education Essentials
- Beliefs, Values & Attitudes in Personal Development Lecture – Counselling Tutor
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Educational Webinar – Mental Health Foundation Australia
- Existential Perspectives Lecture – Counselling Tutor
- Sleep and bipolar disorder: What do we know, and what can we do Webinar – Mental Health Foundation Australia
- Sex off the Rails: Schema Therapy, Sex, and Addictions with Liz Lacy – Schema Therapy Training Online
- Dr. Jeffery Young, Interview: Schemas, Therapy and More – Schema Therapy Training Online
- A Better Understanding of Mental Health Services – Mental Health Foundation Australia
- Solution Focused Brief Therapy: Then and Now – PACFA
- The biosocial model of borderline personality disorder – PACFA
- CBT Strategies for Complex Anxiety Disorders – Mental Health Foundation Australia
- Developing Therapeutic Presence Online – PACFA
- Supporting Young People with Mental Illness: A guide for families and carers – Mental Health Foundation Australia
- Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) with Suzanne Zeedyk – Counselling Resources
- Working with Personality Disorders – Counselling Resources
- Principles of Transactional Analysis – Counselling Resources
- Trauma and the Brain – Counselling Resources
- Challenge in Counselling – Counselling Resources
- Sex in Counselling with Michael Peason – Counselling Resources
- Models of Personal Development – Counselling Resources
- The Teenage Brain with Kairen Griffiths – Counselling Resources
- Complex Trauma: Key Points and ‘Must Knows’ – PDP
- Working with Goals in Therapy – Counselling Tutor
- Working with Codependent Clients – Counselling Resources
- Managing Scepticism in Counselling Clients – Counselling Resources
- Gottman’s Model of Repair in Relationships – PDP
- Tackling Destructive Thought Patterns – Counselling Resources
- E-Counselling, What is Online Counselling and Psychotherapy? – Counselling Resources
- Understanding & Responding to Men’s Distress – PACFA
- Contemporary Issues in Counselling – Counselling Resources
- Rising from Existential Crisis – PACFA
- Homelessness & Mental Health – Mental Health Foundation Australia
- Grief and Bereavement – Counselling Resources
- Advanced CBT Strategies for Chronic or Recurrent Depression & Anxiety – PDP
- Grieving and Remembering Well: Tools for Healing – PDP
- Sex and Intimacy in Relationships: Psychology, Biology and Relationship Interplay with Ari Badaines, PhD – PDP
- Social Media and Mental Health with Ashok Mysore – Mental Health Foundation Australia
- Developing Core Competence in Race and Culture – Counselling Resources
- A Harm-Reduction Approach to Addiction with Andrew Tatarsky PhD – PDP
- Bereavement Awareness with Nicola Hughes – Counselling Resources
- Petruska Clarkson’s 5 Relationship Model – Counselling Resources
- Sports and Mental Health webinar – Mental Health Foundation Australia
- Managing Resistant Clients – PACFA
- Beginning Validation – Validation Training Institute
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Skills Training for Children and Adolescents: Rescuing the Dysregulated Child – PDP/PESI
- Telehealth and DBT: Best Practices, Essential Skills and Ensuring Safety – PDP/PESI
- Applying Neuroscience in Counselling Practice – Counselling Resources
- Regulating the Client’s Nervous System with Body Consciousness – PACFA
- Overcoming Procrastination for Counsellors with Josephine Hughes – Counselling Resources
- Introduction to Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT) – Counselling Resources
- The Science of Mindfulness and Compassionate Presence with Christopher Willard – PDP
- Introduction to Internal Family Systems (IFS) – PDP
- Trust and Meaning Making in Parent-Child Interactions – PDP
- The Enduring Neurobiological Effects of Abuse and Neglect – PDP
- Erickson’s Stage of Human Development – Counselling Resources
- How Mindfulness Changes Your Brain with Prof. Norman Farb – School of Becoming
- Expressive Arts as Healing Engagement – PDP
- DE-CRUIT: Treating Trauma in Military Veterans through Shakespeare and Science – PDP
- Introducing Creative Arts in Counselling – Counselling Resources
- Self-management of Bi-Polar Disorder – Mental Health Foundation
- Alcohol & Substance use in Lockdown – A compassion-based, harm-reduction approach to understanding and managing in the context of lockdown – PDP
- Virtual Sound Meditation – Mental Health Foundation
- Virtual Wellness Workshop – Mental Health Foundation
- Recognising Sex and Porn Addiction; Beginning Conversations & Referral – Counselling Resources
- The Physiological Manifestation of Grief – PACFA
- Working with Moral Injury – Counselling Resources
- Understanding and Preventing Counsellor Compassion Fatigue – Counselling Resources
- Personality Testing Diploma Course – Centre of Excellence (currently studying)
- Trauma & Brain Plasticity – Counselling Resources
- Never Good Enough: An introduction to using ACT for unhelpful perfectionism, fear of failure & relentless self-criticism – PESI Au
Readings List:
- I’m OK-you’re OK – Thomas A. Harris, M.D.
- Games People Play – Eric Berne, M.D.
- Three Paths To Autonomy & Self-Actualisation – Dr. Linda Gregory
- I Hate You – Don’t Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality – Jerold J Kreisman and Hal Straus
- On Becoming a Person – Carl R. Rogers, Ph.D
- Tao, The Watercourse Way – Alan Watts
- Learned Optimism – Martin Seligman
- Beyond the Relaxation Response – Herbert Benson, M.D.
- Grace Unfolding, Psychotherapy in the Spirit of the Tao-te ching – Greg Johanson and Ron Kurtz
- The Inner Master – Martin Zagnoev
- The Biology of Belief – Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D
- The Worry Trick – David A. Carbonell, Ph.D
- Taoism and Science – Dr. J. Zai
- Incorporating Spirituality in Counseling and Psychotherapy – Geri Miller
- The Principles of Buddhist Psychology – David J. Kalupahana
- The Place Called Zero – Jonathan Christ
- Transformative Counseling – Daniel Keeran
- A Therapist’s Guide to Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy – Jeffrey A. Cully, Ph.D and Andra L. Teten, Ph.D
- Zen Buddhism – Robert Espiau
- Western & Buddhist Psychology, Clinical Perspectives – M.G.T. Kwee and T.L. Hodstock
- The Tao of Pooh – Benjamin Hoff
- Talking TA – Louise Cameron
- The Courage to be Happy – Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
- ReFraming, Neuro-Linguistic Programming and the Transformation of Meaning – R. Bandler and J. Grinder
- Flow: the Psychology of Optimal Experience – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- The Book – Alan Watts
- Taboo or Not Taboo, Reflections on Physical Touch in Psychoanalysis & Somatic Psychotherapy – Alison Hall
- The Mystery of Consciousness – John R. Searle
- An Introduction to Cognitive Psychology – Melvin Manis
- The Third Space – Dr. Adam Fraser
- Resilience: Timeless Stories of a Family Therapist – Moshe & Tesse Lang
- Bhagavad Gita: As it is – A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
- Meditation As Medicine – Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D., and Cameron Stauth
- Mind Over Medicine – Lissa Rankin, M.D.
- Living Tao – Ilchi Lee
- Sex in Human Loving – Eric Berne, M.D.
- What Do You Say After You Say Hello – Eric Berne, M.D.
- On the Path of the Buddha, A Psychologists’ Guide to the History of Buddhism – C. Peter Bankart, Kathleen Dockett and G. Rita Dudley-Grant
- Western & Buddhist Psychology, Clinical Perspectives – M.G.T. Kwee and T.L. Holdstock
- Men, Women & Relationships – John Gray Ph.D.
- The Tough-Minded Optimist – Norman Vincent Peale
- Mental Efficiency – Arnold Bennett
- Joining Together, Group Theory & Skills – David Johnson and Frank Johnson
- The Art of Stress-Free Living – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
- The Talking Cure – Prof. Gillian Straker & Dr. Jacqui Winship
- Social Psychology – William W. Lambert & Wallace E. Lambert
- An Invitation to Happiness in Everyday Life – Florence Thomas
- The Complete Marriage Book, Practical Help from Leading Experts – Dr. David Stoop & Dr. Jan Steep (editors)