Byron Psychology is the private consulting practice of
Prem Dana Takada, Clinical Psychologist . She established the
practice after returning to Australia to live in Byron Bay.
She has lived and worked in Australia, London, India and Japan.
During this time she has consulted with the national and international
community on a range of emotional and psychological issues of individuals,
coupes families and adolescents, gave workshops
and seminars, and was involved in professional development
activities and assisted in developing an English speaking
professional organization for therapists in Japan.
She has a strong commitment to professionalism as evidenced by:
1. Ongoing professional
development activities by attendance and presentations
at professional and community conferences and seminars.
2. Networking with and supporting colleagues.
3. Ethical practice awareness.
4. Connections with a wide range of community groups
Why Seek Therapy?
People seek therapy for a wide range of reasons ranging from support
with personal growth to specific
problem focus and psychiatric issues. Prem Dana’s
local and international
experience in a diversity of settings gives her a unique
ability to deal with a wide range of presenting issues with
flexibility and care. Each treatment is designed according
to client’s
needs.
All therapy is totally confidential. Prem Dana abides by the Australian
Psychological Society and code of ethics, which establish professional
ethical standards.
Why a Clinical Psychologist?
Prem Dana is a Clinical Psychologist which means that she is
specialist in human behavior and change. Clinical Psychologists
provide systematic assessment, evaluation of behavior, personality,
emotions and systems to provide solutions for individuals, groups,
organizations and the community. Prem Dana is a member of the
College of Clinical Psychologist of the Australian Psychological
Society, a minimum 8 year training requirement. Australian Clinical
Psychology training runs on a scientist – practitioner
model and involves training by coursework,
major thesis and internship. Clinical Psychologists use evidence
based treatments and therapies including Cognitive Therapy and
Family and Systemic approaches.
In contrast, a Psychiatrist is a medical doctor (M.D.) who has
specialized in psychiatry. Psychologists do not prescribe medication
though a referral can be made to a medical practitioner for further
assessment for the appropriate use of medication as part of your
treatment, if required. Referrals and recommendations to other
community resources can also be made as part of your treatment.
Services Offered
Prem Dana is trained in brief and
in other longer term and in depth therapy approaches.
Brief therapy can last from 1-12 sessions while longer term therapy
can be ongoing, according to each client’s situation.
Individual Therapy
Sessions can focus on a range of problem specific areas such as:
• Stress
• Low Self-Esteem
• Anxiety Disorders, Panic Attacks - Diaphragmatic
Breathing, What is a Panic
Attack?
• Depression -
Recommended book - Feeling Good by David Burns.
• Anger Management
• Abuse History - physical, sexual, emotional.
Recommended book: The Courage to Heal E. Bass and L. Davis.
• Disorders of Body Image and Eating
• Recovery Issues
• Women’s Issues - Abortion, Adoption,
Infertility. Recommended book: Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom by
C. Northrup.
• Psychosomatic/Physical Problems - Recommended book: The
20 Minute Break: Using the New Science of Ultradian Rhythms E Rossi PhD.
• Cross-Cultural Issues - in the work place, in your
marriage or in general.
• Biracial, Multiracial Issues. Recommended book: What
Are You? Voices of Mixed Race Young People Pearl Fuyo Gaskins.
• Relationship Issues – relationship
problems, separation/divorce, infidelity. Recommended book: After the Affair Janis
Abrahams Spring PhD.
• Sexual Problems or Issues - problems with
sexual desire, sexual addictions.
• Men’s Issues - Anger management, relationships,
male survivor. Recommended Book: Victims No Longer Mike Lew.
• Family of Origin Issues – dysfunctional
families, children of alcoholics.
• Codependence - Recommended books: Healing the Shame
that Binds You John Bradshaw. Facing Codependence by Pia Mellody.
• Career and Work Related Stress, Life Choices – career
and life direction
• Psychiatric History - Bipolar Disorder. Recommended
book: New Hope for People with Bipolar Depression by F. Fawcett ,
B. Golden and N. Rosenfield.
• Personal Growth Work
Prem Dana Takada is a fully trained Family Therapist (Victorian
Association of Family Therapists, Clinical Member since 1990).
Marital/Couple Therapy
Communication/Trust Issues, Sexual Issues, Infidelity, Divorce, Cross
Cultural Relationships.
There is a lot of recent research that demonstrates what
is needed to create a successful marriage. The average
couple waits six years before seeking help for marital problems
(and keep in mind, half of all marriages that end in the USA
do so in the first seven years). This means the average couple
lives with unhappiness for far too long. In Dr. John Gottman's
apartment lab at the University of Washington, he studies how
people interact with one another under everyday circumstances.
He has discovered that "bids
for connection" happen at a very high rate between partners.
What is a bid for connection? Bids can be verbal or non-verbal.
They can be highly physical or come totally from the intellect.
They can be sexual or non-sexual. The key is that a bid for connection
is an attempt to create connection between two people. Its function
is to keep the relationship going forward and in a positive direction.
Bids are a fundamental element of emotional connection. Try the
brief quiz on Gottman's website.
Recommended books: The Divorce Remedy Michelle Weiner
Davis. After the Affair Janis Abrahams Spring PhD.
Available for seminars - for couples, cross-cultural
relationships and "Making Marriage Work/Keeping Love Alive" seminars
(developed by Michele Weiner Davis).
See also Pat Love's web site for
books on relationship and sexual issues.
Family Therapy - sessions involving the whole family for problem
solving and solution finding.
Parenting – sessions for parents, emphasizing
the competency of both parents and children and opportunities
for new understandings, communication and behaviors. Available for seminars on parenting.
Child and Adolescent Therapy – for older
children and adolescents with Behavioral/Emotional/Social Difficulties.
No formal educational assessments provided. Recommended book: Nobody’s Perfect K.
Kirberger (for daughters).
Group Work
Prem Dana has led groups in Australia, England, India and Japan
since 1885.
Groups led previously - Parenting Skills, Assertion Skills,
Social Skills, Solution Focused Approaches to Depression, Women’s
Group, Eating Disorders, Anxiety and Psychoeducational groups for
people with Psychiatric Disorders and their families. Also
assisted in many personal development groups in India - Primal
Feelings, Codependency. Participant in group
trainings - Psychology of the Buddhas, Meditation
Intensive and Systemic Constellation Workshops.
Organizational Consultation
EAP (Employee Assistance Program) services – group lectures
on CISM (critical incident stress
management) and post traumatic stress, stress management,
alcohol and family problems, and depression. Emotional Intelligence,
Individual and Couple Therapy also available as an EAP service.
Prem Dana Takada is fully trained in Systemic Approaches to change.
Also mediation services available for staff
conflict See www.mediationworks.com for
more information on mediation approaches. Recommended book: Managing
Differences by Dan Dana PhD
Systemic Constellation work – for organizational problem
solving and change.
Seminars and Workshops
Prem Dana has presented many seminars and workshops over the
years in her home country, Australia, as well as while working
in London, in Tokyo in 1995. She has presented to community
groups, schools, client groups and a wide range of professional
and business groups. She has also presented at Asia-wide (in
Bangkok and Kyoto) and International Conferences in the
USA.
Telephone/Skype/Video-Cam consultation
Though Byron Psychology is based in Byron Prem Dana is available for
telephone counseling for those who live outside Byron, anywhere in Australia,
Japan or other countries. Prem Dana is also available for
telephone consultation for those on extended trips to other States
or overseas or for follow up therapy if you relocate.
Approach
Brief Therapy is a way of conceptualizing therapy, a way of developing
a therapeutic relationship. It has a number of aspects. It is
directive, active, focused, solution-oriented and psycho-educational.
All the many tools, techniques, skills and understandings that
Prem Dana has gathered over the last 25 years are utilized in
sessions to help clients to access their unique solutions and
put them into practice in their own lives. Prem Dana Takada has
trained in a range of Brief Therapy approaches including Cognitive
Therapy, Ericksonian Psychotherapy and Hypnotherapy, Solution
Focused Therapy, Narrative Therapy and Couple and Family Systems
Therapy. She has trained in Australia, London, Oxford,
Tokyo, India, Germany, The Netherlands and the USA
.
Long Term Therapy Many people also choose to stay in therapy
for long term or ongoing personal development work. In longer term therapy
the work continues and further evolution takes place over time.
Alchemical Psychotherapy and Hypnotherapy. Prem Dana has also
developed a therapeutic approach based on integrating modern psychological
techniques with traditional mystery school teachings which focus on meditations
of the heart in an East meets West approach. Many discoveries, creative
solutions and transformations occur spontaneously so that therapy and thereby
life become not so much a doing as a non-doing, an allowing of the unnatural/problem
aspects to dissolve and the natural or the essential to flower.
Techniques. A wide range of techniques may be
utilized in both brief and longer term therapy such as
dialoguing, imagery, letter
writing, metaphor, family genograms and specific "at home" tasks.
Clients will discover keys in how to connect with their inherent
wisdom, strength, and self acceptance.
What is your personal theory of therapy?
Interview - Prem Dana Takada MPsych.
Questions by Fran Ridgel (HS Counselor at ASIJ-Japan)
What is your personal theory of therapy?
Just as we would hope that each of our clients lead a unique life
and discover their own creative solutions to the challenges that
they face in life, so too am I a sum of all the different experiences
that I have had and my therapy and my ideas about therapy reflect
that. For me to honestly face who I am and what I am about in my
work even if that is different from others. This self validation
is the also a core of my theory.
As I come to the therapy room I bring the whole of my past
and present experiences and my self with me as does the client
sitting before me. I trust that out of the meeting of these
two (or more) selves something new will develop. Sometimes
I describe myself as a Magpie, which is an Australian bird
that has a great voice or warble and collects treasures.
So I’m always on the lookout
for treasures and I pick them up and put them in my box. The thing
about magpies is that they see treasures where other people wouldn’t
think of looking, a scrap here and an old bit of something or
other there and in their case they build their nest out of it.
I became interested in therapeutic approaches that were deep
and that could be brief and which could be used within a long
term, developmental model of therapy or within a brief therapy
format. In my search for those special treasures, I found approaches
that bring the heart back into therapy. Seeing things as a whole,
or the whole of what is, through the eyes of the spiritual heart
is alchemical.
I have come to understand that the heart has its own magic
which I refer to as its alchemical properties. The heart’s
qualities include trust, space, courage and gratefulness
plus many others. Alchemy is the science that is concerned
with finding ways to turn base matter into gold or higher
states and another definition is the science of finding a
medicine to cure all diseases. Psychologist have become very
good at explaining away everything and are trained to see
problems or pathology not people, or as is increasingly common,
to just see the solutions. These approaches can be very effective.
But an alchemical approach would suggest that you live within
the mystery of the life and creates vertical not just horizontal
change. There are several major types of what I call alchemical
approaches that I use. The main ingredient is that it must
contain the problem and also may contain its opposite. The
catalyst is simply one of the qualities of the heart. The
heart is like any muscle, as we exercise it, it grows. And
from this the problem can dissolve and the new arise on its
own. Whatever psychological or mind-body tools I utilize are
captured within this frame.
Do you apply holistic approaches in your work with clients? What are
the approaches?
My approach is holistic in its essence. The approach is holistic
whenever I use a combination of any of the mind-body-spirit techniques
that I have trained in or developed. These include a wide range
of cognitive-behavioral, systemic, hypnotic and alchemical approaches.
I am always attending to:
1. What developmental phase the person is at
2. What is the current emotional, psychological state
3. Their physical state and
4. Spiritual state.
Specific holistic approaches that I use include the alchemical
psychotherapy and hypnotherapy approaches. Alchemical Psychotherapy
and Hypnotherapy utilizes the powerful keys of acceptance of
what is and the courage of the heart. In this approach these
ancient tools of the mystics are blended with the powerful discoveries
of modern therapy such as modality/ sub-modality work (vision,
feeling and sound), time-line work and solution-focused ratification
of changes. These approaches are generic and can be used for
a wide variety of emotional, relationship, somatic or behavioral
difficulties since they are not so much change techniques as
tools of transformation. The approach assumes that, as E. Rossi
outlines, the therapist’s main role is to assist clients
in getting unstuck in the creative process. A lot of emphasis
is place on a healing atmosphere being created by the therapist
and these approaches can be used in an individual or group format.
How did you get started applying these approaches?
My original training was in fairly traditional cognitive
Behavioral therapies at Latrobe University, Melbourne, Australia,
It was certainly a very sound basis for my future work as
a Clinical Psychologist and I often return to these basic
tools of facing the underlying beliefs and social learning
theory. I also at the same time trained in structural, strategic
and systemic family therapy approaches at a one of the local
training hospitals in the area so I was introduced to a wide
range of approaches early on in my training. After initially
working in community Psychology/Psychiatry for a few years
I worked in a Psychiatric crisis team under the mentorship
of an Ericksonian therapist. Ericksonian therapy, a la Milton
Erickson, developed hypnotherapy into a therapeutic art form.
He was based in Phoenix and the Ericksonian Foundation is
still there today. In his approach everything about the client
is utilized (this is simply called the utilization approach)
so that everything that he observed about the client became part
of the potential solution- this includes the physical, emotional,
psychological and developmental aspects of the person. So in
a way he was a "holistic" therapist
before his time. However several of the other post-Ericksonian
therapists (E. Rossi, S. Gilligan) also include aspects of the
spiritual dimension. In Rossi’s case he links this to specific
biological processes as the new sciences are demonstrating that
psychological change and growth of consciousness actually have
biological correlates not only in increased synaptic and dendrite
connections but in actual neurogenesis (new neuronal growth)
which in the past was thought to not to be able to occur in adult
brain tissue.
I began exploring meditation in 1990 in Thailand and visited
India a number of times in the 90’s while studying at Osho Commune
International Pune, India which is a center for meditation and
personal growth where I studied in the Mystery School. In this
approach the alchemical possibilities of the spiritual heart are
explored and experimented with. The heart contains the qualities
of compassion, space, silence, love, courage acceptance of what
is and many other qualities that, if utilized, can transform the
nature of problems. So this is the major lens I use today in my
work what ever other brief or depth therapy approaches I am utilizing.
For me holistic therapy isn’t just about mind-body approaches,
or about counseling someone on their nutrition or spiritual needs.
It is about being able to see the whole person, it is about the
word holy. Seeing beyond the psychology of the person and the
problem to what is more than that. The possibilities, the unknown,
the mysteries. So this is a very different approach to a goal
orientated, outcome orientated psychological approach. But I
must say that I still get good results and my approach is highly
effective! It is challenging to adapt this approach to a wider
range of problems and I am currently exploring how to adapt this
to traditional cognitive and hypnotic approaches to sexual dysfunctions,
eating disorders and marital therapy.
What training did you receive to be able to apply these approaches?
In my basic training in undergraduate Behavioral Science
we study a broad range of topics namely –Sociology,
Biology, Psychology and Mathematics (for research purposes
and interpretation or scientific reports). So already I had
a broad based training in the social ( criminology) and hard
sciences ( genetics, zoology, botany, physiology and nutrition)
as well as intensive training in diverse areas of Psychology
which included, learning and memory, psychopathology, social
psychology, developmental theory, philosophy of science and
research. It is only after studying these basics for 4 years
that one is allowed to begin the study of Clinical Psychology
in Australia.
I have studied meditation and the transformative potential
of the heart since 1990 and I have participated in a wide
range of group processes including primal therapies and tantra
in terms of dealing with childhood and relationship issues.
On more transpersonal issues I have participated in past
life groups. In regard to Psychology of the Buddha’s
I did this specifically in Sedona, Arizona in a course entitled
Beyond Psychology.
In regard to healing and energy work while I am not a “hands
on” healer or body worker I have studied Reiki since 1991
and I have also studied other types of energy work including
Prana. Within the mystery school training their was also a lot
of study in regard to charkas and understanding the energy /belief
systems of different charkas- similar to what Carolyn Mace is
now presenting to the Western world.
More recently, over the last 5 years, I have become increasingly
interested in the work of Bert Hellinger whose work can be described
as transpersonal in that it works on the soul level and with intergenerational
family and societal systems. This work has given me additional
insights and techniques into the greater forces at work that effect
the body-mind-soul of individuals.
Therefore my holistic model includes aspects of biology/general
health, psychology/individual development and thinking, awareness
of psychiatric issues, understanding of energy systems and family
and social systems including transgenerational, and beyond psychology
to the spiritual self or soul.
How do you know when to use these approaches with clients? Do you also
always use the holistic approach?
How I determine which aspects of a holistic approach to focus
on relies on my initial assessment as well as the person’s request.
It is my experience that when a client and a therapist get together
that something greater than either of them, the therapeutic mind,
appears. So while I keep very up to date with the latest effective
therapeutic approaches and techniques in the field of psychology
and have a broad based knowledge I have to say that at this point
of my career I often don’t “think” in the traditional
sense while working. My mind is quite silent and this co-created
therapeutic mind guides both the client and myself in the work.
The beauty about developing the qualities of the heart is that
work and decisions become easier if one simply allows oneself
to pay exquisite attention and follow the guidance offered. Different
people are requesting different things when they come to meet
with me. For some it will be a very brief and interesting meeting,
for another it is the beginning of a longer journey of self discovery.
Different techniques along the way can help facilitate the learnings.
I always gather information regarding medical history and current
medical problems and often will refer people to medical or alternative
health practitioners for further assessment and treatment. Many
clients I see in Tokyo are already doing some form of yoga or
meditation or become interested in this during treatment. While
I do not impose any specific meditation or spiritual practices
I will help guide the person to discover what might be suitable
for them, though usually they find this outside of the therapy
itself which I think is appropriate.
What ethical issues do you see incorporating these approaches in your
practice?
In 2000 I went to the Evolution in Psychotherapy conference
in Anaheim, California. This is a conference which is held
by the Ericksonian society every 5 years in which all the
most esteemed therapist/trainers are present. I was surprised
to hear so many therapists say that spirituality has no place
in therapy and that it should be kept distinct. And these
were the gestalt therapists! So I am at a loss to know why
things spiritual are such a hot topic or how in fact I could
avoid including these issues in therapy. In my work in Japan
I so often find that people are searching for some spiritual
sustenance. For myself I do not see any ethical issues, if
I give someone meditation, nutrition/physical advice I also
qualify when it is outside of my professional area of competence
or expertise and refer them to an appropriate practitioner.
It is important for practitioners to always qualify their field
of expertise, range of experience and make that clear to the
person. Clients are typically understanding and don’t expect
all things to be delivered by one person.
What benefits do you see by using these approaches?
The main benefits for me in using an alchemical lens is that therapy
flows more easily, it is less tiring for me and truly surprising
things happen. The approach reflects more the nature of reality
which is one of interconnectedness between all things. To have
a broad based knowledge is essential as it can be helpful, for
example to recommend to someone to explore nutritional counseling
for panic attacks related to mineral or hormonal imbalance so that
the immediate symptom can be assisted. I guess I learnt this in
my psychiatric training in which organic causes of psychiatric
symptoms always need to be excluded first before one treats it
psychiatrically/psychologically i.e. hallucinations can be caused
by infections or brain tumor for example. Though there is a distinct
connection between body and mind it is a mistake just to treat
the mind. Sometimes if one treats the body, the mind follows too.
What limitations are there in using these approaches?
One problem might be that there are a lot of different aspects
to focus on in any given moment and of course at times I might
give too much attention to one at the cost of another. But usually
things even out and I trust that things will work out even if they
are not done perfectly. In general I would say that most so called
holistic practitioners are not really so. They have not received
enough psychotherapy training to be really advising people in that
area of their life and should advertise themselves as body workers
rather than counselors so as to avoid misrepresentation.
What else would you like to share about being a holistic therapist?
This interview has given me a chance to examine what being
a holistic therapist means to me. One of the best things
about seeing people as a whole rather than just their parts-
whether it is their body, mind or problems -is that my work
becomes a place of meditation for me when the space and silence
of the heart can be with that of another and the resonance
can echo throughout mine and the client’s
life. It is truly a self nourishing approach and I am truly blessed.
When seeing things as a whole, the whole mind relaxes and the heart
is able to function more freely. The heart qualities of intuition,
space, courage and possibilities are able to surface. Seeing people
or things as parts is stressful, tension inducing and limiting.
This sort of awareness can be very focused but is inherently critiquing
what it sees, analyzing, looking for improvement. Seeing things
as a whole allows things to transform and develop organically and
creatively.
And I love telling stories in therapy.
“ They say that in the life of the great Sufi mystic Farid that a King
came to see him. He had brought a present for him: a beautiful pair of scissors,
golden, studded with diamonds-very valuable, very rare. He brought those scissors
to present to Farid. He touched Farid’s feet and gave him the scissors.
Farid took them, looked at them, and gave them back to the king, and said, “Sir
may thanks for the present that you have brought. It is a beautiful thing,
but utterly useless for me. It will be better if you can give me a needle.
Scissors I don’t need; only a needle will do” The king said, “I
don’t understand. If you need a needle you will need scissors too” Farid
said, “Scissors I don’t need because scissors cut
things apart. A needle I need because a needle puts things together.
My whole teaching is based on love-putting things together, teaching
people communion. I need a needle so that I can put people together.
The scissors are useless; they cut, they disconnect. Next time
when you come, just an ordinary needle will be enough”
Educational
and Professional Background
Research Thesis
Undergraduate B.B.Sc. (Hons.) Ist Class
Year 3 Minor Thesis:
"Scheduled Induced Self Injection of Heroin in Rats: The blocking effects
of Naloxone" Supervisor. Pr. G. Singer. Published.
Year 4. (1st Class Honors.)
"Pretreatment Characteristics of Clients in a Therapeutics Community for
the Treatment of Drug Dependence: Their Association with Retention and a Descriptive
Analysis." Supervisors: Pr. G. Singer and Dr. P. Cook.
Minor Philosophy Thesis. “Different Types of Knowledge.
Intuitive Versus Rational Knowledge.”
Postgraduate. Master’s Psychology (Clinical).
"The Acute effects of Alcohol on the Daughters of Alcoholics and Controls:
A Search for Mediating Factors in the Predisposition towards Alcoholism." Supervisors.
Pr. K. Ng and Pr. G. Singer.
Professional Experience
1. Psychology Tutor - Chisholm Institute
of Technology, Department of Applied Psychology, Melbourne, Australia. Full/Time
1984 Part/Time 1985-87
Taught 1st, 2nd and 3rd year students Memory and Learning, Perception,
Social Psychology, Philosophy of Science, Occupational Psychology.
Practicum and supervision of research projects
2. Casework. Psychological Trainee
(a)West Heidelberg Community Center, May 1985 Dec 1985 (b) LaTrobe
University Clinic .March 1985 to Dec 1986. Concurrently undertook
1.5 years of a 2 years training program in Systemic Therapy at
(c) Austin Hospital Psychology Department Feb 1986-June 1987.
Included:
• Vocational/educational/intellectual assessment of children
and adolescents.
• Psychometric testing /projective testing/psychological
assessment of adults
• Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Systemic,
Structural and Strategic therapies and Psychodynamic therapies
of child, adolescent and adult and family problems.
• Group Work: Parenting Skills, Assertion Training,
• Medical Outpatients, Behavioral medicine
• Child In-patient Team.
• Trained to treat a wide range of problems. Sexual abuse/incest-
current and survivor, Eating disorders, Anxiety, PTSD, Depression,
Alcohol and Drug Abuse, Stealing, Personality Disorders,
3. Community Psychologist (locum) Westgate Community Health
Service, Melbourne. F/T June 1987-May 1988
General Community Psychology work and therapy with adolescence,
adults 16year-, couples and families.
Treatment of Acute and Chronic Psychiatric Disorders –manic-depression,
depression, schizophrenia, suicide risk.
• Psycho-educational groups for people with psychiatric
disorders, social skills training.
• Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder
4. Clinical Psychologist (locum) Sunshine Counseling
and Community Services, Melbourne. P/T Aug 1988-Feb 1989
• Wide range of community psychology work and therapy.
• Educational assessments/ liaison with schools.
• Chairperson of community team designed to reduce the use
of tranquilizers in the community.
• Narrative Therapy with Violent men
.
5. Clinical PsychologistCommunity Assessment and Treatment
Team (CATT) Royal Park Hospital, Melbourne. P/T Aug 1988-Feb 1989 F/T Feb 1989-Feb
1991.
Home based Psychiatric Crisis team as an alternative to hospitalization
for acute and chronic psychiatric disorders. Pilot project, 24hrs/7days/week.
• Psychological assessment and therapy. Family Therapy,
Narrative Therapy, Ericksonian Therapy, Strategic Therapy.
• Consultant and trainer for psychiatric team members on
various brief therapy approaches.
6. Clinical Psychologist (locum) Bloomsbury Health Authority,
London, United Kingdom. F/T/ June 1991-Sep 1991
(a) Consultant to high security ward (b) Ear nose and throat
consultant e.g. Tinnitus (c) Community Psychologist
7. Principal Clinical Psychologist West
London Health Care Trust, NHS. Ealing, United Kingdom F/T
Oct 1991-Feb 1994.
Senior Psychologist. Consultant to Multidisciplinary Teams. (a)
Inpatient ward, (b) Community mental health team and (b) Outpatient
community psychiatric nursing team. Psychotherapy, Hypnotherapy
and Family Therapy work.
• Family Therapy work with young men with a Psychiatric
Diagnosis.
• Group Therapy- Solution Focused Group for people with
Depression.
• Women’s Group.
8. Session Worker (Volunteer) School of Mysticism; Center
for Transformation, Pune, India. April 1994-March 1995
Volunteer at a personal development and mediation center in India.
9. Teacher ESL Grandom Academy, Tokyo, Japan. July 1995-June 1997
10. Clinical Psychologist/ Psychotherapist Tokyo, Japan. July
1995-current
• Established private practice providing Clinical Consultation
for cross-cultural relationships, cultural adaptation, anxiety
disorders, depression, sexual problems, history of abuse, work
related stress/career issues, relationship issues, family problems,
addictions and personal growth work.
• Offering brief and long term Psychotherapy, NLP/Hypnotherapy,
Alchemical Approaches and Family/Systemic therapy to older children,
adolescents, adults and couples.
• Community consultation, linking resources and referral.
• EAP referrals and workshops
• Community seminars and workshops
• Organizing conferences, professional development seminars
and training opportunities for professionals in English in Japan.
• Assisting in the establishment of a professional organization
for international therapists in Japan. IMHPJ. VP/Conference organizer
1998,1999, 2000. President 2001 to 2003
Preceptor trainers for US naval Counselors for Substance Abuse
and Rehabilitation Service at Yokosuka and Sasebo 4004-2007
