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FROM LOCKDOWNS TO A NEW 'COVID' NORMAL - a series of short seminars to resource your work with pandemic-affected clients.
As we work our way through an unprecedented time of protracted and repeated lockdowns, social restrictions, and ongoing uncertainty, many people find that their existing coping strategies are not holding up. Soaring rates of anxiety, depression, suicide, loss and grief, substance abuse, domestic violence and many more issues have put our whole society under duress and mental health professionals are faced with situations for which we have little sound prior experience.
We offer this series as a gift to our professional community and hope it serves as a useful resource as you continue the valuable work you undertake in caring for your clients, your loved ones, and yourselves.
Amber Rules is a psychotherapist, counsellor, group therapist, clinical supervisor and mental health facilitator. She has extensive experience with addictions and specialises in working with the family members of people who use substances and repetitive harmful behaviours or have complex mental health needs through harm minimisation and compassion-based lenses.
She is the Clinical Director of Sydney Addictions Recovery, a specialist counselling clinic in Sydney’s Inner West. She is also the Director and Founder of Rough Patch; an affordable counselling serve that uses a unique social enterprise model to make counselling more accessible and affordable. Previously in her career, Amber has worked in both public and private inpatient rehabilitation centres and hospitals, specialist outpatient counselling services, and private practice.
Before becoming a therapist, Amber worked in the entertainment industry. She has an understanding of the difficulties that come with creative, non-traditional and high-profile careers and is experienced in helping clients manage addiction and mental health difficulties that sometimes accompany these occupations.
Amber also has lived experience of substance involvement, family addiction and intergenerational trauma, and draws on this in her clinical practice.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Amber M. Rules is the founder and director of Rough Patch Affordable Counselling & Mental health Supports and has an employment with Sydney Addictions Recovery. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Amber M. Rules is a member of the Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and Other Drugs, the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Australia, and the Australia and New Zealand Mental Health Association.
Lizzie Spencer is a highly experienced psychotherapist, coach and academic teacher, based in the Bowral, South of Sydney, Australia.
She taught in Steiner Schools for many years and is also a Social Ecologist, looking to nature for helpful and supportive life systems, and brings active hope to the world.
She is a founding member of the Community of Calm whose aim is to train practitioners in Trauma Awareness and to create a Trauma Resource Centre.
Family Constellations and Process Oriented Psychology are at the heart of her understanding and trauma-informed practice.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Lizzie Spencer maintains a private practice. She has employment relationships with the Australian College of Applied Psychology and the University of New England. receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Lizzie Spencer is the co-founder of Community of Calm and Arts for Wellness and is accredited by the Australian Counseling Association.
Dr Judy Lovas is an experienced educator in evidence-based Relaxation Therapy and Psychoneuroimmunology and infects others with her passion and enthusiasm for these subjects.
Judy teaches simple relaxation techniques so people can cope better with anxiety, depression, pain, sleep disorders, trauma and chronic conditions. She translates leading research in Psychoneuroimmunology into simple and easily understood concepts.
In the tertiary sector, Judy lectures in psychology, relaxation therapy, psychoneuroimmunology and cellular health. She researched psychological and immunological outcomes of relaxation in people with spinal cord injury. Judy conducts Relaxation Therapy Classes in Sydney and is a coordinator of the Northern Sydney Persistent Pain and Mental Health Professional Network.
When not teaching and presenting, Judy relaxes with family and friends.
Kim is the author of A Counsellor’s Companion: Creative Adventures for Child Counsellors, Parents and Teachers, (2021) as well as a writer of several published articles in the Counselling Australia Journal. Kim’s passion is sharing creative therapeutic interventions that can bring people renewed hope and understandings about themselves, and fresh ideas about how they want to live in the world. Kim’s current work (now mainly using Zoom online) includes counsellor training, child and family counselling, parent consultations, EAP work, clinical supervision, supervising Monash University’s Master of Counselling Students, and Carer’s counselling. Kim has been a regular counsellor training presenter with the Sydney Centre for Creative Change since 2013.
Methods and tools in Kim’s therapeutic toolbox include Mindfulness, Narrative Therapy, ACT, CFT, Creative Expressive Arts, Existential Therapy, befriending emotions using metaphors and storytelling, Tree of Life work and creative timelines to understand the life-long emergence of identity.
Kim has previously worked with clients whose adversities include surviving: refugee trauma, family violence, divorce, out-of-home care, bereavement, and carers of family members with mental health troubles. With three years spent responding to callers at Crisis Support Services such as 24/7 MensLine, Kim has also co-facilitated Men’s Behaviour Change Groups.
Kim’s treasure chest of creativity has been overflowing, culminating in writing a book about child counselling, and another on its way about working with adults. Kim hopes to inspire others who are working to support children, young people and adults on their heroic journeys.
Leona Dawson (Master’s in Counselling & Psychotherapy, MA Language & Literacy, Cert Therapeutic Journal Writing, Dip Transpersonal Art Therapy, Dip Clinical Hypnosis & Strategic Psychotherapy, Cert IV Workplace Training & Assessment) is a Level 3 certified IFS therapist and IFSI consultant. She has worked as a program assistant for Australia and international Level 1 and 2 trainings. She has also delivered workshops for PESI Australia. Leona works in private practice.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Leona Dawson maintains a private practice. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Leona Dawson has no relevant non-financial relationships.
Merle Conyer supports individuals, teams, organisations and communities responding to interpersonal, institutional, political, cultural and environmental trauma, healing and justice. Contexts in which she contributes include mental health, legal, government, academic and community sectors, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander services, organisations facilitating redress for institutional abuse, and those contributing to human rights, social justice and environmental justice.
Her track record includes board, management, service delivery and volunteer roles. Through her independent practice she currently offers counselling, supervision, debriefing, training, groupwork, wellbeing support and consulting services. She interweaves interdisciplinary wisdoms such as somatic psychotherapy, trauma-informed practice, narrative therapy, ecological psychotherapy, focusing and mindfulness practices, and is guided by both clinical and cultural supervision. Merle is an Accredited Supervisor and Clinical Member with the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia. She holds a Master of Narrative Therapy and Community Work, Master of Counselling and Applied Psychotherapy, Master of Education, Graduate Diploma of Communication Management (Human Resource Development), and Diplomas of Somatic Psychotherapy and Energetic Healing.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Merle Conyer maintains a private practice and has an employment relationship with Blue Knot Foundation. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Merle Conyer has no relevant non-financial relationships.
Morag Paterson is a Senior Counselling Psychologist with specialist endorsement through AHPRA. She qualified at University of Roehamptom (London, UK) in 2005. Morag has worked in Psychology related fields for over 20 years where she has gathered a wealth of clinical knowledge and experience. In London, she was a Manager in two Primary Care Mental Health Services, where she managed and supervised Psychologists and Therapists. She arrived in Sydney seven years ago and started her Australian Psychology career in a Private Hospital with people with Addictions. She then undertook a role managing the Inpatient and Day Patient Therapy Services for an Eating Disorder Unit in a Private hospital in Sydney. In this role, she managed and supervised therapy staff as well as developed a Therapy Treatment Program for the Day Program. The treatment program modules drew on the therapeutic frameworks of Motivational Interviewing, CBT-E, DBT and ACT. Morag currently works in private practice in Ultimo and in Sydney CBD.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Morag Paterson has employment relationships with LifeSpace Psychology, En Masse, Sydney Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Foresight Psychology. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Morag Paterson has no relevant non-financial relationships.
Robert Brockman is a clinical psychologist and researcher living and working out of Sydney, Australia. Rob has extensive experience lecturing and supervising on Clinical Psychology Masters programs (Western Sydney University; University of Technology) and was a full-time Research Fellow (Psychology) from 2017-2020 (Australian Catholic University). Since 2014, Rob has regularly provided Schema Therapy Training events across Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and South-East Asia, and has trained over 2000 therapists in the schema therapy approach. In 2018 Rob co-authored a new schema therapy book Contextual Schema Therapy, and is lead author of the upcoming release "Cambridge Guide to Schema Therapy", due for publication early 2022.
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OUR PARTS IN LOCKDOWN: Through the lens of Internal Family Systems (IFS). (The pandemic sessions)
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Leona Dawson, M. Counselling & Applied Psychotherapy, MA (Language & Literacy), TAE40116, Dip Transpersonal Art Therapy, Dip Clinical Hypnosis & Strategic Psychotherapy
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SUPPORTING STRESS RESILIENCE DURING THE PANDEMIC: Wellbeing practices and strategies to increase calm, reduce overwhelm and sustain stability (The Pandemic Sessions)
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Merle Conyer, M. Counselling & Applied Psychotherapy, M. Narrative Therapy & Community Work, M. Education, Dip. Somatic Psychotherapy, Dip. Energetic Healing
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N/A | Digital Seminar | 2 Hours | More info » | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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PROCESS ORIENTED PSYCHOLOGY - (The pandemic sessions)
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Lizzie Spencer, Masters Social Ecology/Education, Diploma Wholistic Counselling and Psychotherapy, Bachelor Education, Certificate Steiner Education, Family Constellations.
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Working With Clients Affected by Someone Else’s Substance or Behavioural Dependencies (The pandemic sessions)
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Amber Rules, B.CHC (Applied Psychotherapy), M.PACFA
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N/A | Digital Seminar | 1 Hour | More info » | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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ZOOM WHITEBOARD IS YOUR ONLINE SUPERPOWER - Making zoom sessions engaging and effective. (The pandemic sessions)
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Kim Billington, B.Ed; M. Couns.; M. Narrative Therapy and Community Work.
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N/A | Digital Seminar | 1 Hour | More info » | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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DIAPHRAGMATIC BREATHING FOR COVID DISTRESS: An effective technique during a difficult time. (The pandemic sessions)
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Dr Judy Lovas, PhD, Dip.Ed.
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N/A | Digital Seminar | 1 Hour | More info » | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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SUPPORTING CLIENTS IN UNCERTAIN TIMES – working with the anxiety of anticipation, separation and loss in a changeable time. (The pandemic sessions)
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Beaté Steller, M.A.P.S. M.A.Ed. B.S.W (Hon) R.N.
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SCHEMA THERAPY IN THE AGE OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC (The Pandemic Sessions)
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Rob Brockman, PhD (Clinical Psychologist)
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N/A | Digital Seminar | 2 Hours | More info » | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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MANAGING EATING DURING COVID: Strategies to help with problematic emotional eating and binge eating during COVID. (The pandemic sessions)
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Morag Paterson, MSc Counselling Psychology, GradDip Psychology, MA Sociology & Social Policy, MAPS.
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