Mona has been a professional counsellor since 2005 with a vast range of training and experience especially with women and Domestic Violence.  Mona has developed and facilitated courses in this area as well as in pre-marriage.  Mona works at a Charity organisation, Bay City Care in Rockdale as the Centre Coordinator and as a counsellor,…

Doug Sotheren is a well-respected Relationship Counsellor working in the field for over 40 years in counselling, teaching and supervision.  Doug has been an active member with a number of counselling organisations over his lifespan including CCAA and AARC and in 2014 was awarded Life Member for his service to CCAA.  Doug first trained as a relationship counsellor and further enhanced his skills with Gestalt and Family Therapy.  His interest in body focused or somatic models of counselling led to training in this field.For 8 years, from 1973 Doug has operated a counselling centre in Western Sydney, which in later years became the LifeCare Counselling Service.  He has run his own private practice from 1989.  Doug has over 40,000 hours of counselling, and thousands of hours of intensive clinical supervision and group training for counsellors and other health professionals throughout Australia.

Paula is a clinical counsellor, supervisor and educator specialising in psychological trauma. Paula has worked in trauma counselling, gambling counselling, counselling for Employee Assistance Programs, organisational consultancy, and counsellor training and supervision. Paula’s doctoral thesis was on the transferability of Western trauma constructs to collective societies. Working in higher education over many years as senior…

Julie is an experienced counsellor and trainer who has worked in broad clinical settings where she has worked with children and adolescents, couples and individuals. She is psychodynamically trained and incorporates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as well as the use of art, sandtray and play therapy in her work. She specialises in complex trauma across…

Greg is a social worker with 22 years’ experience working in the health and community services sector. In 2001 Greg began to specialise in the field of grief, loss and trauma – working as a Counsellor/Educator with HOPE Bereavement Care/SIDS & Kids from 2003 to 2009 and as a Regional Specialist Bereavement Counsellor for Australian…

Bill has been in pastoral ministry in local congregations of the Christian Reformed Church in Australia for more than 36 years and is now an associate pastor at Discovery Church (a Churches of Christ church) in Mt Evelyn. He is currently the Director of Mount Evelyn Counselling in Victoria and runs his own practice called…

Ian has a breadth of rich experience spanning over 40 years of leadership, training, pastoral ministry and counselling, being a Clinical Member of CCAA (Vic) since 1988. He has authored several books, the first being Preparing for Marriage published in 1980, and has a long history in couples counselling. Now retired, his passion has always…