Charlotte Ashford has worked as an individual and couples therapist for the past 16 years. She has a Bachelor of Counselling and incorporates a variety of therapeutic approaches, with a particular interest in Narrative therapy, into her work. She has a Post Graduate Diploma in Gestalt Therapy. She has specialist training and extensive experience in working with issues of loss and grief and with adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. She works with Unifam Counselling and Mediation in Newcastle in the position of Senior Clinical Supervisor, providing supervision to counsellors and to counsellors from other organisations.

The teaching faculty at the Illawarra Gestalt Centre have all worked in a wide variety of fields in applying counseling and psychotherapy. They bring this practical clinical experience to teaching and supervision and to living the philosophy of Gestalt therapy. There are also regular guest faculty and faculty-in-residence from overseas

Brian O’Neill is co-director of the Illawarra Gestalt Centre and visiting faculty member of Gestalt Training programs in Australia and the USA. He is past President of the Association for Advancement of Gestalt Therapy, Founding Editor of the Gestalt Therapy Forum (New York), a  board member of Gestalt Global, and on the editorial board of the Gestalt Review and Studies in Gestalt He is a registered psychologist with over 30 years experience, a Senior Fellow in Mental Health (University of Wollongong), and a member of the College of Counselling Psychologists (APS). He received the THEMES Gold Medal for Mental Health Work in 1996 from the Governor General, Sir William Deane

Jenny O’Neill is a Gestalt Therapist, Co-Director of the Illawarra Gestalt Centre and a College Member of Gestalt Australia and New Zealand (GANZ) and PACFA. She has a wide experience working as a supervisor and psychotherapist, and as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in the Drug and Alcohol field with expertise in Dual Diagnosis. She uses art therapy as an expressive and creative medium in her work, particularly in working with adolescents. She is also a member of the Australian and New Zealand College of Mental Health Nurses and is a lecturer in nursing at the University of Wollongong, where she teaches “The Therapeutic Use of Self”. She has presented training workshops internationally and has a keen interest in the application of the arts with Gestalt therapy. She was Program Co-Chair for the Seventh Conference of the Association for Advancement of Gestalt  Therapy AAGT in Florida. She currently works in private practice and also as an accredited Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner through the Attorney Generals Department.

Seán Gaffney  was raised in Ireland, spent six years in the UK and has lived in Sweden since 1975. He is a Gestalt therapist, supervisor and trainer; Gestalt organisational consultant, supervisor and trainer; and a university lecturer (Cross-cultural Management). He is a member of the Professional Staff, Gestalt Institute of Cleveland (USA). Trainer with The Gestalt Academy of Scandinavia (Sweden), The Nordic Gestalt Institute (Denmark), The Gestalt Trust (Scotland & North of Ireland), The London Gestalt Centre (England) and the Illawarra Gestalt Centre (Australia). He has published widely on gestalt therapy.

 

 

Talia Levine Bar-Yoseph, BA, MA (hons), is a co-founder of the Jerusalem Gestalt Institute and a visiting trainer in several countries in Europe. She is the past coordinator of the post graduate Gestalt program at the Hebrew U. as well as a past head of the Gestalt MsC program at Metanoia Inst. London. She was the first Professional Continuing Education on the UKCP executive. Talia was on the editorial board of the BGJ and is now on the editorial board of the GR. She is a registered clinical psychologist since 1981, with vast experience in PTSD, cross cultural work and group work. Talia is a business consultant in Israel, Europe and the USA. She has over 20 years experience working with multinational companies, social structures, family businesses as well as volunteering work with low profit organizations. Talia published number of papers in professional journals and edited the book; The Bridge – Dialogues Across Cultures.

 

 

Robert G. Lee, PhD, a psychologist in private practice in Cambridge and  Newton, Massachusetts, has written extensively and presented widely about shame and belonging as regulator processes of the relational field. He  applies his intersubjective, constructivist insights to a wide range of clinical populations, including working with individuals, couples, families, children and adolescents, as well as to the topics of self process, development, field theory, ethics, culture, gender, and chronic illness. His research on couples and shame led to a deeper understanding of the hidden dynamics of the intimate couple. His article, "Gestalt and Shame: The foundation for a Clearer Understanding of Field Dynamics," won the 1995 Nevis Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Gestalt Therapy Theory. Robert is co-editor of The Voice of Shame: Silence and Connection in Psychotherapy. (Jossey-Bass, 1996), editor of the Values of Connection (GestaltPress/The Analytic Press, 2004), and his latest book The Secret Language of Intimacy (GestaltPress/The Analytic Press, in press). He is an editor at GestaltPress, a member of the faculty of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland and teaches and trains nationally and internationally. His other life interests include dancing, snorkeling, and being with and enjoying his wife and their collective children.

Peter Philippson, M.Sc. (Gestalt Psychotherapy) is a Gestalt psychotherapist and trainer, a trainer of the Gestalt Psychotherapy & Training Institute UK, a founder member of Manchester Gestalt Centre, Full Member of the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy, faculty member of Gestalt Therapy International Network (GTin), and a guest trainer for many training programmes internationally. He is co-author with his GTin colleagues of 'Contact and Relationship in a Field Perspective', pub. l'Exprimerie, editor of 'The Nature of Pain' and (with John Harris) co-author of 'Gestalt: Working with Groups' and co-editor of 'Topics in Gestalt Therapy', all published by Manchester Gestalt Centre, and author of many papers on Gestalt therapy in British, French, American, Australian, Canadian and Spanish Gestalt Journals. His book 'Self in Relation' is published by the Gestalt Journal Press. He is on the Editorial Boards for the International and British Gestalt Journals, and is past President of the Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy. Peter is a teacher and student of Aikido.

Faculty at IGC