NEW ZEALAND ASSOCIATION OF PSYCHOTHERAPISTS - Key Persons
It is a great pleasure to grant the Distinguished Service Award to Angela Stupples, who has over many years practiced as a wise, thoughtful and extremely knowledgeable psychotherapist. Her service to psychotherapy and to the wider community locally and nationally is also of great significance.
A former school teacher, Angela trained in child psychotherapy, and worked in the University of Otago, Department of Psychological Medicine's Child, Adolescent and Family Section, from 1980-89. Following this Angela worked and trained in adult psychotherapy, completing the Self Psychology training course and Self Psychology Supervisor training. She worked in the Gore Counselling Centre part-time from 1989-90, and again in 1995-96. From 1989 Angela also worked for ten years at the Ashburn Clinic. In 1999 Angela returned to work with children and their families, in the District Health Board's Child and Family Mental Health Service. Angela retired from this position in 2009, and has a part-time private practice.
A pioneer in promulgating the clinical application of Attachment Theory for children and their care-givers, Angela, along with Elizabeth Muir and Dr Denise Guy, developed the highly successful Watch Wait and Wonder (WWW) model of psychotherapy for infants and young children. WWW is an approach to improving the attachment between parent and baby which is widely referenced, both nationally and internationally, in paediatric literature. Much of Angela's work has been in the education of health professionals who work with infants and children. This includes having written Specialist Family Court Reports (29A), post-graduate teaching in University of Otago Child and Adolescent Psychiatry courses, writing and presenting clinical papers, and the ongoing teaching of psychiatric registrars. As well as this Angela has shared her expertise in a mentoring and supervisory capacity. During her work at the Ashburn Clinic Angela also set up the Child and Infant observation component of the course for trainee psychotherapists.
Angela made an outstanding contribution to the Southland, South Otago and West Otago rural community while working part-time at the Gore Counselling Centre, adapting well to the unique challenges of providing therapy to a rural environment where she worked as a clinician, supervisor and group facilitator. While in Gore, Angela also assisted in what was thought to be the first joint training in N.Z. for therapists, police, lawyers, social workers and doctors on the identification of symptoms indicative of sexual abuse in children. She also co-facilitated an ACC pilot group therapy programme for women.
As well as being part of the setting up of the internship training of psychotherapists at the Ashburn Clinic, Angela and a colleague were instrumental in setting up the Ashburn Seminar Series that has continued to be an important part of the Ashburn Clinic's service. These seminars are highly valued within the local psychotherapy community. Angela's work with her patients and her colleagues at Ashburn was also highly valued, as was her role of mentor and supervisor.
Angela's colleagues in the Child Family and Mental Health Service describe her as an esteemed colleague, and teacher of her craft, who clearly and concisely shared her knowledge and expertise at multidisciplinary meetings. Her commitment to her clients and the high standard of Angela's work was held in the highest regard, as was her ability to work with and make sense of the most complicated presentations.
A member of the New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists since 1987, Angela has served on Council, marked case studies, assessed orals, mentored and supervised widely for many years. She has written and presented clinical papers, and is presently the co-editor of ‘Forum'. Her vast clinical experience, theoretical knowledge, lively and enquiring mind, professional integrity, generosity, and gentle humour are much appreciated by many. She is an example to us all.
Job Titles:
- Director of Auckland Family Counselling
Annette Asher has offered an incalculable amount to the development of psychotherapy in the Northern Region. In her quiet, elegant and thoughtful way, she has been a source of great inspiration to many psychotherapists. She has great humility and dignity. Annette had training and experience in England as a psychoanalytically trained social worker and returned to New Zealand in 1976 keen to share the benefits of this.
Early in 1977 Annette became the Director of Auckland Family Counselling and Psychotherapy. In the mid 1980s she developed their first training modules in psychodynarnic psychotherapy. This training, which in the early days was entirely her own creation, has made a significant contribution to the development of psychoanalytic understandings in Auckland and beyond. Many people have had pleasure and gain from her teaching, which was and is clear and creative and passionate. She is generous and supportive both as teacher and as supervisor. She has always been respected as a therapist. She has had persistent commitment and faithfulness to psychoanalytic therapy. When new and creative therapies were exciting New Zealanders she held the psychoanalytic frame unwaveringly. When dangerous therapies threatened the reputation and practice of psychotherapy in Auckland she stood firmly for professional discipline and boundaries, in the service of clients.
She has held branch office for NZAP, participated at national level in the admissions process, initiated mini-conferences to facilitate communication in the large and disparate Northern branch of N ZAP and led the Auckland conference committee in 1998.
Annette is a true Renaissance woman - her knowledge of art, literature and psychotherapeutic writing is wide and expert. She has used all this and more in the service of psychotherapy in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Betty Robb is honoured for her contribution to psychotherapy and to the lives of many hundreds of individuals and families.
In 1965 Betty attended a Leadership Course with the Federation of Parent Centres, and started on the path which has been a primary focus of her professional and personal life. In 1967 she and her family moved to Auckland, and she became a driving force behind the establishment and development of Parents' Centres and Play Centres in the Auckland Region. Betty's work has been informed by Donald Winnicott and Daniel Stern among others, and in more recent times she has worked hard on the establishment of mother/infant parenting groups to provide a service to mothers and their infants at the critical stage of early bonding and to deal with emotions and responses which may impede satisfactory development.
In the 1970s Betty became an accredited Marriage Guidance Counsellor. In 1974 she joined the Auckland Family Counselling Service, now the Auckland Family Counselling and Psychotherapy Centre, where she was a valued member of staff for thirty years.
Betty joined the New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists in 1984 by presenting a paper at Conference on Transference and Counter-transference. She has contributed to the Association both regionally and nationally. She has been a member of the NZAP Council and of the Admissions Committee, has been Convenor of the Auckland Branch, and is a member of the Northern Region's Supervisors Group. She has presented regularly at Conferences.
In 1990 she also became a founder member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and has been a member of the Committee on Psychoanalysis of the Federation of US Societies of Social Work and a member of the USA-based International Federation of Psychoanalytic Education.
As well as being a dedicated psychotherapy practitioner Betty is also a respected teacher. She has been an invited lecturer at the Department of Psychotherapy and Applied Psychology at AUT, a lecturer for the Foundation of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy programme at AFCP, and a lecturer for the Institute of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.
Betty has brought a tremendous energy and thoughtfulness to her work in all its aspects, and has a commitment to providing and developing services which enhance the lives of New Zealanders.
Brenda has been an active member of NZAP since 1985. In addition, she has, as a Gestalt practitioner and trainer, made a major contribution to psychotherapy nationally and internationally.
Her original nursing training and ensuing nursing career led Brenda to a deeper and more holistic approach to health. Brenda was Director of Counselling at Marriage Guidance between 1985 and 1990 when she established a Gestalt Psychotherapy practice, including supervision and organisational work, which continues today.
Brenda's service to psychotherapy has been extensive and is exemplified by her professional and personal ethical approach. She has been an active member of the Gestalt Institute of NZ (GINZ) and the GINZ training faculty since 1993. Brenda developed and provided a professional training programme and promulgated the creation of minimum training standards. She was instrumental in the establishment of Gestalt Australia and New Zealand (GANZ) and was a member of the GANZ Council from 1996 to 2000, and President for four years during that period. Brenda has been active in promoting Gestalt therapy internationally and through her connections with Australian training programmes. She is renowned for her rich and thought-provoking papers.
During Brenda's 30 years of membership of NZAP she served on the NZAP Council from 2007 to 2014, and was Chair of the Ethics and Professional Standards Committee from 2009 to 2014. During her time on EPSC Brenda worked on reshaping and clarifying the procedures of the complaints process and developed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Psychotherapists Board of Aotearoa New Zealand.
Brenda's astute judgement and clarity of thinking was invaluable on Council and in chairing the EPSC. She is particularly skilled in the respectful engagement of dialogue around difference. Her term on the NZAP Council following the advent of registration for psychotherapists was a challenging time. Brenda maintained a steady and thoughtful presence on Council with a capacity for critical enquiry. She has worked tirelessly and competently, adding a great deal to the culture and work ethic of Council. She is highly regarded professionally by NZAP members who approach her for reflective consultation on a wide range of ethical issues.
Brenda has been involved locally as a committee member for 7 years up to 2013, and as a training supervisor in the Canterbury supervision group since 2001.She has been a regular member of NZAP accreditation panels and was an integral part of the 2009 Conference Committee.
Brenda is a very private person. We recognise and pay tribute to Brenda's bravery and resourcefulness both during and after the earthquakes. She is loyal and utterly reliable. Outside of her professional life, Brenda's creativity is expressed in her exquisite oil paintings and skilful photography.
Colleen Davison began her working life after completing a B.A. in Education and Educational Psychology in 1958 at Auckland University. She worked initially as a careers counsellor in Vocational Guidance. It wasn't long before she realised that people could not be given much help in career choices if they had personal problems that kept intruding into the discussion.
Her curiosity about this went on hold when she married and had children. But that curiosity surfaced again when she became a Play Centre mother. She began to take the opportunities offered by that organisation to do leadership and early childhood development courses, as well as to learn about attachment, separation and loss.
As her own family matured, she began to look around for more structured work related to counselling. By now she was aware that her curiosity was about unconscious processes. This brought her to Auckland Family Counselling and Psychotherapy Centre (AFCP) in 1980, where she remained a staff member until 1994. During her time at AFCP she became solidly grounded in psychodynamically-orientated theory and practice and she contributed much to the regular training meetings and other professional activities of the Centre. She maintained her interest in and support for the Centre until its recent closure.
In 1985 she also began part-time private practice in the Lister Centre. By the end of the nineties, she and some of her colleagues at both AFCP and the Lister Centre had begun to feel the need for a more advanced training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Their thinking and their dedication resulted in the founding of the Institute of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (IPP) around 1990. In 1992 the first IPP training course began. Colleen was one of the foundation group who designed and completed the training over the next four years. Many psychoanalytic trainers came from overseas to teach. Later on, she and other foundation members taught students at the Institute. In 2002 Colleen was Chair of Training for IPP for many years and was one of the group involved in rewriting the training course and attending to the lengthy documentation required when IPP applied to become fully affiliated as a member association of the Psychotherapy Association of Australia (PAA). This was achieved in 1999. Colleen has represented IPP at Australian conferences and is now on the Editorial Board of the Australasian Journal of Psychotherapy. Though no longer teaching, Colleen continues to be an active and participating member of NZIPP, as it is now known.
Colleen became a member of NZAP in 1992, when she submitted two case studies and attended the panel interview. Over the years since, she has been an active member and has taken a strong interest in many aspects of the profession and its responsibilities. Supervision is one of those interests and she has supervised many full and provisional members in the Northern Branch. In 1994 she became chair of the regional supervisors' group and held this post for four years. In the same year (1994) Colleen became co-ordinator of the applicant (now provisional) panels in the Northern Branch. The difficulties about entry to NZAP had long been a concern to many, including Louise de Lambert and Lewis Lowery who, with Colleen, pioneered the change to personal presentation rather than the paper exercise it had been previously. Another advantage was that panels could be chosen with consideration to the applicant's preferred way of working. After three years, Colleen's thoughtful approach had greatly contributed to the process for applicants as well as panel members, who were sometimes faced with difficult decisions regarding the suitability of candidates. Colleen has also been involved in the final part of admission into NZAP - the case study marking and panel interviews. In this she worked hard to help candidates express their thinking and understanding of unconscious dynamics more clearly. She gained the respect of her colleagues, and candidates, by rigorously insisting on high standards.
Colleen's other interests centre on her family. Also important are music, literature, art and gardening. She is at much at home talking about bromeliads as she is about Bach. Her capacity to remember detail, her persistence and doggedness in getting things right, are supplemented by her warmth, sense of humour, enjoyment of the moment, and delight in good company and conversation. She brings a mature richness and generosity to her work and relationships.
Brian Broom has been described as a ‘philosopher physician', with a passion for ‘whole person' approaches to physical illness and disease. His journey in integrating philosophy, spirituality and bodied, whole person experience with the practice of interpersonal healing through psychotherapy has made him an innovative, highly attuned senior practitioner and as such is one of our treasures.
Brian has been involved in the practice and promotion of psychotherapy since 1986, following his training in psychiatry and psychotherapy. The integrative nature of his practice demonstrates the way a whole person approach is achievable and he has been committed to bringing this approach to clients, other psychotherapists, and health practitioners, and to educate the public that this is a possible way of working.
Brian has made a significant contribution to psychotherapy, both in New Zealand and internationally. He is a highly sought after speaker with accolades too numerous to mention here. In 1987 he set up a multidisciplinary centre in Christchurch as part of his commitment to developing practitioners and providing public access to better treatment options that included a psychotherapeutic approach. It is oriented to whole person care and is still going. In 2006 he became an Adjunct Professor in MindBody Health care at AUT University and taught multidisciplinary groups of students the value of interpersonal healing practice. He has been an advocate for psychotherapy where many have not dared or wanted to go. He brought psychotherapy into the public sector, working as a psychotherapist/physician in hospitals and in areas where psychotherapy has not normally been accepted as a valid therapeutic option. This is no mean feat as it is pioneering and can be lonely. He has done this through his own psychotherapeutic work and the results that his co-workers have been able to see, as well as through innumerable workshops, conferences and consultations both in New Zealand and internationally, along with his publications in journals, books and electronic media. He developed a website in 2015 as a resource for clinicians and the public which is widely used.
Brian is a renaissance man who describes his interests and preoccupations as including family, boating, planting the garden, reading indigestible books, walking, the companionship of young and not so young colleagues (variably) interested in ‘whole person' approaches, the rich mystery of life in all its bright and dark hues, deep-ish conversations with like-minded colleagues and friends, and the power of love, astute listening, compassion, warm relationship, intimate and authentic dialogue, good intention, openness, willingness to go near the edge, and serendipitous, mysterious and spiritual happenings, to not only make that special difference to daily life but also to heal the sick.
Dr. Karen Zelas M.B.Ch.B., D.P.M., M.R.C.Psych., F.R.A.N.Z.C.P., M.N.Z.A.P., Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist Karen has been a member of NZAP since 1975. Over the last six years, during her time of office bearing, she has made a particularly significant contribution to the running of the Association. She was elected to Council and the position of Honorary Secretary in February 1998, having acted in this capacity prior to her election. For three years Karen was Acting Chair of the Ethics and Professional Standards Committee. It was during this time that she spearheaded the revision of the Code of Ethics, with a currency of five years. Although this was a long and difficult process, Karen was always vigilant of the need for consultation with the member-ship and her attention to detail and collective accountability was always evident.
As a member of the Admission Committee for a number of years, Karen has made a tremendous contribution, culminating in the publication of the Assessment Policy and Procedures booklet. This has clarified the structure and hence the standard and consistency of the process of admission to the Association. Following the change of status of Applicants for Membership to Provisional Members, Karen was instrumental in compiling the revised NZAP Constitution and Rules. She also introduced the Provisional Practising Certificate for Provisional Members, issued for the first time in 2002.
Karen was aware of the need to clarify issues surrounding members' retirement from the Association and recognition of service. To this end she established the criteria for conferring Life Membership and introduced the Distinguished Service Award, writing the Terms of Reference. She also wrote "Clarification of Retired Membership, Provisional Membership and Correspondent Status", a leaflet setting out clarification of these membership categories, options available and procedural requirements.
Karen has a strong belief that psychotherapy needs structure, standards and consistency. She has given very generously of her time and expertise to develop, refine and record procedures, protocols and structures in order to establish a solid, well-considered foundation of predictable and consistent practices. Karen is a staunch advocate for professionalism and individual and collective accountability. She is widely respected for her knowledge, expertise and clarity of thought and her consultative practices within the membership.
Dr. Robert Crawford, MB ChB, DPM, MNZAP, ARCPsych (UK) is honoured for his contribution to the New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists, to the development of Psychodrama in New Zealand and to the treatment of addictions while Superintendent of Queen Mary Hospital, Hanmer Springs, 1976 to 1991.
From his participation in the first New Zealand based Psychodrama training Robert was engaged clinically, intellectually, emotionally and creatively by this modality. His contribution to its development has been outstanding; in 1999 he was appointed director of the Christchurch Institute for Training in Psychodrama. This year his contributions were recognised by the Australian and New Zealand Psychodrama Association's (ANZPA) award to him of Distinguished Membership.
Eileen was born in London's East End docklands. She went to school and university and taught English literature, grammar and religious studies, where she might be today if she hadn't met Tony at a summer school in France. They married and lived and worked in Manchester for 2 years. They then went on a big overseas adventure where they lived and worked in Fiji, Eileen teaching English as a second language, and there they had their 2 children. On a holiday in New Zealand Tony was offered a locum job at Rawene and, though Eileen was initially not keen to settle forever there, she now feels that Rawene chose them and in spite of the isolation they have lived there since.
The next few years were incredibly busy as Eileen raised her children, attended and participated in Playcentre and went back to University at Massey. She gained a Sociology degree, with papers in Psychology, and was influenced by the Feminist perspective. She trained with Marriage Guidance (as it was then) in the early 1980s, and helped start an agency in Kaikohe for them. She also worked with Women's Refuge and helped fund and open a ‘safe house' for them too, in Kaikohe. Eileen is a registered ACC Sensitive Claims counsellor, and has worked with CYFS and the Family Court. She continued working as a counsellor and psychotherapist in Kaikohe and surrounding areas, until recently when she began working from home. She has loved being a member of NZAP and is grateful for the fun and the collegiality, in contrast to the beautiful isolation of where she lived and worked. Eileen has also always been interested in the Jungian perspective and has twice attended training at the Jungian Institute in Zurich and is still a member of the Jung interest group.
Eileen was first elected onto NZAP Council in 2002 and took up the Public Issues portfolio. Bicultural issues were present in all her work up north so she was passionate about how NZAP could help these changes as psychotherapists. After a hui at Te Kai Waha marae in the Hokianga in 2003 it was suggested that the then NZAP Bicultural committee become the NZAP Advisory Committee of Te Tiriti. In 2004 there was another name change and it became Te Tiriti and Bi-cultural Committee and in 2005 Eileen became Convenor. She was a very active Convenor and, through the Committee, encouraged members of NZAP to understand how the practice of psychotherapy in keeping with the principles of the Treaty, would provide a better and more appropriate process for Māori. Eileen was also a founding member of Nga Ao E Rua (The two worlds) which has had an enormous influence on the thinking and practice of members of NZAP.
Eileen was re-elected to Council in 2004, became President-Elect in 2006, was a wonderful President from 2008-2010 and Immediate Past President 2010-2012. This has been a huge commitment and loving gift to NZAP over the years. Eileen graciously and elegantly gave of her time, and her massive experience, to aid and guide wisely many knotty decisions through Council meetings. She has now taken up the responsibility of Complaints Convenor and is bringing her long experience and wisdom to the tricky task of dealing with complaints brought to NZAP.
Elisabeth Duncan became a member of the New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists in February 1983 after presenting a paper at the Conference that year. She went on to serve the Association in many ways that made an impact on its life and development.
Elisabeth's wisdom, insight and acumen were of great service to the Association in her roles as a member of Council and of the committees on which she served. These included membership committees and committees set up to clarify and specify requirements for supervision and supervisors.
She was Treasurer for the Association from 1994 to 1998. She managed the Association's money wisely and efficiently and by recommending a realistic membership fee secured its financial stability for some years to come. An astute investment of conference funds one year secured a substantial sum, which became the basis of the current Education Fund.
Elisabeth's contribution to psychotherapy and its development is, however, broader than her direct work with the Association. Much of it precedes her membership. First there was her groundbreaking work in the Dunedin Women's Prison. Professor of Psychological Medicine, Wallace Ironside, recognised her calibre and potential and persuaded her to become a prison visitor. He gave her training, supervision and support in this difficult and challenging work.
Subsequently she became a founder member and director of the then Marriage Guidance Council. While she was Director she actively facilitated the development of counsellors and the spread of psychological understandings across agencies in the city. In the 1970s and 1980s she recruited people from many different disciplines to be involved as trainers, supervisors and resource people for Marriage Guidance. In 1981 she and Professor of Psychiatry Basil James, then President of NZAP, raised the possibility of Marriage Guidance Counsellors joining the Association. Many of the people who joined in the following years were people whose professional discipline and skills grew and flourished in Elisabeth's carefully built and sustained milieu.
This award is conferred upon Gordon Hewitt for services co NZAP and to psychotherapy in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Gordon has been an active member of the New Zealand psychotherapy community for many years as a practitioner, trainer, supervisor and teacher.
He has been a participant in NZAP activities throughout his 20 year membership and a member of the Wellington Supervisors' Group since soon after its inception. Gordon was a member of the Admission Committee for some years and subsequently Chair of the Committee, bringing to it his experience as Vice-President of Training and Certification for the International Transactional Analysis Association. He worked with other members of the Committee to ensure that predictable, competency-based assessment procedures were developed and that admission processes flowed smoothly. National consistency in standards of marking, transparency of processes and fairness in admission procedures were goals he aspired to.
As the Head of the School of Health Sciences of the CIT, Gordon introduced psychotherapy and counselling training and revised drug and alcohol counselling training. He also introduced short courses in clinical supervision which were caught throughout the country. Gordon is currenty President of the ITAA. In chis capacity, he is also an ambassador for New Zealand in world psychotherapy.
Helen Campbell is honoured for her contribution to the New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists; also for her significant contribution to psychotherapy spanning almost thirty years. Helen is a faithful and wise member of the psychotherapy profession who has served her region in a large range of capacities.
Prior to her membership of NZAP in 1986, Helen had worked for fifteen years at the Child and Family Guidance Centre in Christchurch. In 1983, Helen became a clinical member of Transactional Analysis and was a valued TA trainer from 1990 to 1995. In 1987 she was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to research women's self help groups. In 1989 Helen began her clinical practice in psychotherapy.
Helen's insatiable curiosity to deepen and extend her knowledge and understanding of psychotherapy has for many years been the driving force behind her continued involvement in the planning and running of seminars, workshops and conferences. Papers she has presented at conferences include her extensive experience in group work which played a significant part of her clinical work for over fifteen years and the dynamics and complexity of early developmental issues.
Helen has for twenty years been an outstanding member of the Christchurch Branch of NZAP. She has served on the committee for over ten years as secretary and as editor of the Branch newsletter. Helen also served on the Application Committee and has been a member of the Regional Supervisor's Group from its inception until 2005.
It is our pleasure to confer this Award upon Helen Campbell for her outstanding service to NZAP and to the profession of psychotherapy in Aotearoa New Zealand.
It is with deepest respect and appreciation that Helen Palmer is acknowledged and honoured for her contribution to psychotherapy in Aotearoa New Zealand.
In 1986, Helen and her husband Peter Hubbard returned from Britain to found the Institute of Psychosynthesis New Zealand (IPNZ), one of the oldest psychotherapy training organisations in this country. Thirty years on, Helen continues to provide skilled and heart-centred leadership as a director, teacher, supervisor and psychotherapist.
This award is conferred upon Jan Currie for services to NZAP and to psychotherapy in Aotearoa / New Zealand. Over the past almost twenty yearsJan has worked with enormous enthusiasm, integrity and passion for the development of both the Association and psychotherapy as a profession, especially in Christchurch. As a Council member from 1985 - 1996, the Association benefited enormously from her astute mind and attention co detail,linked with a sensitivity towards others and an endearing sense of humour. Jan was President of the NZAP. during 1991 and 1992. Her dedication to the Association was further demonstrated by her willingness to hold the office of Past President from 1993 - 1996 during a particularly sad time for the Association.
Before moving into private practice, Jan worked for Presbyterian Support Services, providing therapy, supervision, education and training. She was a significant contributor co the counselling and psychotherapy courses chat were offered, which were then unique in Christchurch. In her efforts to promote the profession of psychotherapy and to provide ongoing learning and professional interchange for a wide range of psychotherapists, Jan has initiated and facilitated many workshops and clinical meetings and invited and hosted overseas speakers. She has been a much sought-after teacher and supervisor and has accepted regular teaching engagements at the Polytechnic and Christchurch Medical School.
Jan has contributed significantly over the years to many aspects of the Association's development, co the professional standing of psychotherapy in New Zealand and co the promotion of psychotherapy amongst her colleagues.
Jenny Rockel is honoured for her contribution to the New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists, and, in particular, for her work as Editor of Forum.
Jenny has been a member of NZAP since 1997. She has an Honours degree in English and experience in editing as well as social work. She made an early and significant contribution to the field by co-authoring a book on adoption.
Her commitment to professional excellence led to her involvement in both training and supervision in the psychotherapeutic model of Self-Psychology.
Jenny has a great love of and facility for the English language. She is a also a lover of people and an experienced psychotherapist. These twin passions were drawn together in her work as Editor of Forum. Every publication bears witness to Jenny's ability to honour the individual author's work while shaping it in a way that ensures and enhances its accessibility to the reader.
Jenny's unique capacity to enjoy and engage with people occurs at many different levels. It might be expressed in a shared meal in her immediate neighbourhood or in her involvement in a local community project or in giving generous editing assistance. She is warm and gracious in every circumstance and courageous in adversity.
This award is conferred upon Joan Dallaway for services to NZAP and to psychotherapy in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Joan has been a passionate ambassador for psychotherapy over many decades and has contributed to the recognition and high standards of practice of psychotherapists in Auckland and New Zealand. Joan has brought a breadth and depth of understanding of and involvement with many modalities, working in an integrative way. In her roles as a tutor, priest and supervisor, Joan has inspired many therapists-to-be with her love and care for people. She has demonstrated the importance of combining spirituality and psychotherapy. Ar one time, Joan was the National Executive Officer for Interchurch Chaplaincy and was also involved in clinical pastoral education. She was part of the human development team of Presbyterian Support Services and instrumental in setting up the internship program which was a significant training opportunity for psychotherapists who then went on to become members of NZAP.
Joan later became a tutor HD&T. Over many years Joan was involved setting up the Lifeline training program. She also offered a 'Practicum of basic skills' at Friendship House. In the late 1980's Joan, with others, developed the psychotherapy training program at the Auckland Institute of Technology, which now is one of the main training programmes for psychotherapists in New Zealand. Many of her former trainees felt inspired to join the AIT programme. Joan visited training programmes in the United Kingdom, with benefits for the quality of training available in New Zealand.
During her rime as a tutor and reacher of psychotherapists, Joan has Promoted the NZAP as the professional home for psychotherapists with the result that many of her trainees are now either members and/or applicants of the NZAP. As a member of the Auckland Branch of NZAP ,Joan held the vision, the hope and the potential of the Branch during a rime when the Branch was almost non-existent.She was on the Council of NZAP as the Admission Convener in 1994. In that role she was instrumental in upholding high standards of psychotherapeutic practice.
Joan Dallaway has for many years been inspirational to senior psychotherapists well as trainees. She has been able to pass on her passion for our Profession and has helped many young therapists to grow as persons and as professionals. Joan deserves our gratitude and acknowledgment.
The Otago/Southland Branch of NZAP is pleased to present John Farnsworth with a Distinguished Service Award for his work for psychotherapy and the Association.
John came to psychotherapy from a background in research, film and media, organisational issues and industry training. He has brought this into his work as a psychotherapist and has made it available to NZAP.
John has made a considerable contribution to the ACP Committee. He began working as a marker in 2010 and then as a moderator, joining the Committee in 2012. He has offered several workshops for candidates, supervisors and therapists, focused on thinking about their work through the lens of the ACP. These have been well received and a paper has been published in the Ata Journal. On the ACP Committee his ever-enquiring, thoughtful and creative mind has had a huge impact. He put a great deal of work into a paper written to challenge the thinking of PBANZ about a Professional Development Pathway. This paper will be pivotal in discussions with the Board.
John served for 4 years on NZAP Council where his ability to think through issues, to envision possible consequences, to express ideas and to find creative solutions was immensely valuable. He was part of a working group that set the parameters for revising the committee structures of NZAP. He has been part of one of the review committees and continues to be available for consultation.
He served on the Online Committee for a number of years until it was disbanded in 2017. He joined the Editorial Advisory Board of the Ata Journal in 2015 and has been responsible for getting Ata online via the NZAP website.
From his early involvement with the Cameron Centre in Dunedin and later its foodbank, John has had an active concern for mental health in the community, the impact of poverty and the contribution of psychotherapy. He was actively involved in compiling Presbyterian Support's report, "Voices of Poverty in Dunedin 2008". For the last 7 years he has run a successful group for people working with community groups. He has often been called on to do debriefing for staff at the Otago DHB. He is still associated with an Otago University Department, actively publishing and managing an academic journal. In his academic work he is extending psychoanalytic thinking into new spheres.
John Farnsworth has brought many gifts to psychotherapy and to NZAP. We have benefitted from these. They have been shared with wisdom, moderation, good nature, humour and a high degree of self-giving. This award acknowledges all of these.
John received a Distinguished Service Award in 2018 for his service to psychotherapy and to the association. Since then, his contribution has continued. That award cited the way John brought his background in research, film and media, organisational issues and industry training into his work and made it available to NZAP.
It noted John's considerable contribution to the ACP committee on which her served for many years as both a marker and a moderator. He also offered workshops for candidates, supervisors and psychotherapists to help focus their thinking about their work through the lens of the ACP.
John has been pivotal in negotiations with PBANZ regarding a professional development pathway. He has contributed substantially to the NZAP strategies and responses to changes of criteria for qualification announced by PBANZ.
He served on the online committee for a number of years until it was disbanded in 2017. He joined the Editorial Advisory Board of Ata in 2015 and has been responsible for getting it online.
John has had a long term concern for mental health in the community and the impact of poverty on mental health. He was actively involved in compiling Presbyterian Support's report ‘ Voices of Poverty ‘in Dunedin in 2008. He has been called upon to do trauma debriefing for a number of agencies. He reads and publishes widely in academic journals extending psychoanalytic thinking into new spheres.
For the past ten years John started and voluntarily facilitated a support group for people who work in the community. It provides an opportunity for people who do not always have access to good supervision and is much appreciated by its participants.
John served on NZAP Council for four years from 2012-2016 and has currently returned to council this year. He was part of the working group that set the parameters for revising the committee structure of NZAP and using critical reviews for the portfolios, committees and council itself. He chaired the Public Issues Portfolio for a number of years and has again taken this up in 2020.
Together, with Lynne Holdem, he wrote a huge submission to The Ministry of Health on mental health and addictions. Since then, he has chaired these meetings and met regularly since 2019-2021 with senior people from the Ministry.
Job Titles:
- Ata Co - Editor
- Ata Co - Editor, Chair ACP Committee
- Chairman ACP Committee
- President Elect, Chair ACP Committee, Ata Co - Editor
Jonathan Fay is being honoured for his contribution to NZAP and psychotherapy training in New Zealand.
Jonathan was born in Madison, Wisconsin to very committed Quaker parents. They later moved and Jonathan grew up among the rural villages and hills of Vermont. A life imbued with the Friends beliefs of simplicity, pacifism, the inherent value of hard work, compassion and belief in the equality and worth of all people have influenced forever Jonathan's value system and what he brings to his work.
Jonathan studied Religion and Philosophy at Reed College in Oregon and eventually did his PhD in Clinical Psychology at Duke University, North Carolina, where he and Margaret Morice married and where their son Rush was born. Jonathan gained an internship with the National Institute for Mental Health Research at Saint Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington DC - and their eldest daughter Anna was born there. In 1987 the family moved to Portland, Connecticut when Jonathan was appointed the Clinical Leader of a dual diagnosis unit in a private psychiatric hospital. During this time Jonathan expanded Clinical Psychologists on staff with the provision of supervised clinical placements which over the years of his tenure, flourished into a reputable internship programme. However, during this time also, massive changes were occurring in access and delivery of psychiatric services - essentially, the rationing (restriction) of services to meet demands primarily to maintain or increase profitability. The decision to move to Aotearoa New Zealand was made in a trip back to visit Margaret's whanau in 1990. It was for Jonathan, a delight and a great relief to meet the very inclusive, pioneering and dedicated folks at AUT Psychotherapy Training Programme and he became a member of the staff in January 1991. The family was completed with the arrival of Zoe in May of that same year. Once at AUT, Jonathan was instrumental in shaping and developing psychotherapy training in Auckland so that graduates were intellectually well grounded, with a personal and professional breadth and depth.
Jonathan presented a paper on Borderline personality disorder and dual diagnosis to the Northern branch of NZAP and was accepted as a member shortly after joining AUT, and in 1993 became part of and the first Chair of the newly formed National Supervision Committee. From there he was elected on to Council for the first time in 1994 until 1996. Supervision and the development of high professional standards in psychotherapy has been a passion for Jonathan, with his long involvement in the National Supervision Committee and his supervision of many of us in Auckland. He has also been a long serving member and chairperson of the Northern Branch of NZAP supervisors group.
Jonathan was re-elected onto Council 1999-2007 and, fitting well with his personal and professional beliefs and values, he has been Chairperson of the Ethics and Professional Standards committee for that time, encouraging and holding all of NZAP to increasingly high standards.
In line with his personal beliefs of equality for all, Jonathan lived and worked to raise consciousness about racial prejudice and inequality. In 2004, encouraged by Haare Williams, NZAP's pae arihi, Jonathan, with others, invited members of NZAP Northern branch and other Maori counsellors and psychotherapists to form a group that became known as Nga Ao Rua, with the aim of increasing our cultural understanding and awareness. We have been working together for five years now and the 2008 NZAP conference at Te Tii Marae at Waitangi was much influenced by Jonathan's passion and commitment to encourage NZAP to become more open to Maori Psychotherapists and developing a bicultural psychotherapy.
Jonathan Fay has been an immensely generous and important person for a huge number of people in the profession with all the activities that he's been engaged in and we are tremendously grateful for his heart, passion and wisdom that he has shared with us as an Association.
Joy was one of the first child psychotherapists who was trained by Otago University in the 1980s. Prior to this she had trained in Gestalt psychotherapy.
After completing the Child Psychotherapy course she began work in the Adolescent Treatment team at Dunedin Hospital at a time when family therapy was being developed as an important treatment for adolescents. During this time Joy pioneered some of the first therapy groups in Dunedin for sexually abused young women.
These groups were run within a culture of disbelief re the prevalence of sexual abuse and working in this area brought its own notoriety, but Joy was not afraid of controversy, and believed in her clients. She fought for funding from ACC when that organisation first agreed to recognise sexual abuse as worthy of compensation and has continued to lobby for the funding of psychotherapy.
Locally we have much to thank her for; her pioneering work with sexual abuse clients has helped ease others into the same area of work. Her fearlessness in defending her clients against bureaucratic mismanagement has been exceptional and her consistent chivvying of her colleagues to take up these and many other public issues has been invaluable to the profession.
While working at the Adolescent and Family Unit, Dunedin Hospital, Joy was the co-writer of a book written for teenagers who had been sexually abused. Her book "Too Close for Comfort" was one of the first books describing the trauma of childhood sexual abuse in an accessible self-help manual for all sexual abuse survivors.
Following her work in Dunedin Hospital and having highlighted the recognition of the resultant trauma of sexual abuse Joy moved into private practice with full NZAP membership, initiating and setting up a group practice, The Psychotherapy Centre, the first independent psychotherapy practice in Dunedin.
Joy worked tirelessly on writing and presenting papers at Conferences with both her NZAP and NZACAP colleagues. She continued to be politically active and as President of NZACAP she worked to liaise with NZAP. From this work the Children's Issues portfolio in NZAP arose. The plight of children has always been an area dear to Joy's heart and her work as an advocate for children and adults has been commendable, as has her promoting of the value of psychotherapy.
As the recipient of the Winston Churchill Fellowship, Joy traveled to Europe and America to further her experience and knowledge of psychotherapy. This was before Post Traumatic Stress Disorder was as commonly recognised as it is today.
Joy's input into teaching psychotherapy has also been significant. She has taught in the Ashburn Clinic psychotherapy training program and her contribution to psychiatric registrar training is ongoing. As Chair of the Otago Branch Supervisors group, Joy's expertise as a supervisor is highly valued, and her passion for psychotherapy is unsurpassed.
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- Counsellor for Relationships Aotearoa
Nelson branch, Te Tau Ihu o Te Waka a Maui members are delighted to give their wholehearted endorsement to Kirsty's Distinguished Service Award.
Kirsty trained as a counsellor for Relationships Aotearoa in Tokoroa in 1983. She later completed a Diploma in Guidance and Counselling at Te Whare Wananga o Waikato. With Relationships Aotearoa she was able to work with couples, her lifelong interest. Work included mediation for the Family Court, Domestic Violence Programmes and educational group work. She was appointed Clinical Leader, part of the regional management team in Nelson, retaining the role when she transferred to Christchurch and later returned to Nelson. As clinical leader in both areas she travelled regularly to Greymouth, Blenheim and later Timaru to supervise and train counsellors.
Kirsty joined NZAP as a way of increasing her skills working with clients longer term. While a Provisional Member she edited an online discussion group. The name recognition this gave her ensured she was elected to Council at the Nelson Conference in 2010. She held the Public Issues Portfolio for two terms. Kirsty presented NZAP's major submission on the review of the Family Court to the Parliamentary Select Committee.
Through the Te Tiriti Bicultural Advisory Committee, she continued her interest in bicultural relationships begun on the Relationships Aotearoa Bicultural Committee. Kirsty represented both Nelson and Canterbury and chaired the committee for a time. While at Waikato Kirsty studied Te Reo and this enabled her to join the university group visiting marae in Te Tau Tokerau.
Kirsty served as President of NZAP 2014-2016. Her administrative experience proved helpful when the retirement of the long-standing Executive Officer required the appointment of a replacement and relocation of the office.
When Kirsty and Graeme moved to Christchurch Kirsty joined the local committee and helped organise the 2009 Conference. On returning to Nelson she assisted with the 2010 Nelson Conference and later was part of the small committee responsible for the 2017 Nelson Conference.
For the Nelson Branch the award is also a recognition of her ongoing personal contributions to our many local activities over the years. She has given unstintingly of her time and energy to our monthly regional meetings and the supervisors' group, to local hui we have undertaken, to organising conferences here and to attending our monthly cultural aroha meetings. She can be relied upon for her kindness, measured opinions and gentle warmth.
It is with great respect and admiration that Kyle is honoured for his commitment and hard work for NZAP, most prominently for his initiatives and skill in the realm of public education through the media.
Kyle joined NZAP in 2003 and became a Full Member in 2009. From the start he was actively involved. He represented NZAP on the ACC Sensitive Claims Advisory Group with energy and determination. He wrote a comprehensive and impressive submission for the first redesign of ACC processes and was part of the pressure group that resulted in the Disley Enquiry. He earned the respect of the Sensitive Claims staff by working alongside them rather than in opposition.
He was the Co-Convenor of the Northern Branch from 2010 to 2012 and is remembered for the information gained from his membership survey and for his part in creating the Maori Student Scholarship.
He was on the NZAP Council from 2013-2017 and was the first Full Member via Registration to serve on Council. His role in updating the IT and communications of NZAP (especially the website) was greatly valued. He is recognised and appreciated for his clarity of communication, patience and encouragement.
As the Public Issues spokesperson he fervently applied his interest and expertise in politics, news and social media to successfully promote psychotherapy. His public profile developed through his blog, his weekly spot on Radio Live from 2013 to 2015, co-hosting the Nutters Club (a mental health focused interview and talkback show on Newstalk ZB) from 2014 and his weekly column in the New Zealand Herald from 2016. He became highly effective at getting statements into the media, advocating for our clients, raising the profile of our profession and increasing the public's understanding. He increased NZAP's and the profession's exposure in ways that have never before been achieved and which are enduring.
Recently, he played a big part in the People's Mental Health Review which raised awareness of the crisis in the public mental health care in this country in the lead up to the 2017 election. Its' four recommendations were accepted in full by the incoming Government, including the Independent Enquiry currently underway and a commitment to reinstate the Mental Health Commission.
Kyle, we thank you for your vision and efforts and acknowledge the significance of these achievements in the way that psychotherapy is now considered in the culture of Aotearoa.
What a treat to be asked to comment on what Lesley King has contributed to NZAP and to the profession of psychotherapy. As one of Lesley's friends and colleagues for going on 30 years, I can testify that whenever things have become rough in this work or in life in general, Lesley has always been there to lend a down-to-earth, sensible and wisely loving ear.
Lesley went into private practice in West Auckland about 25 years ago. She was inordinately afraid that she wasn't ready or wasn't good enough. Getting business cards printed seemed audacious. It was just over a year later that Lesley took a deep breath and with similar trepidation began to teach at AUT in the first years of the psychotherapy course, gradually revelling in the opportunity to teach human development in her uniquely Lesley way, a way in which students were left in little doubt as to their own developmental paths - and any deficits therein.
Lesley developed her skills as a fine and dedicated teacher of psychotherapy over many years, simultaneously remaining dedicated to doing a sterling job of playing her part in the healthy development of her three sons and the stability of her family's world.
Lesley was elected onto NZAP council at the 1998 conference and held the first portfolio that was established to deal with applicant issues, as they were called at that time. She also represented NZAP on a subcommittee that attempted to build connections with NZACAP and for most of her time on council was on the Ethics and Professional Standards committee.
The call to be President of NZAP is an honour but also a very weighty responsibility. In 2003 Lesley accepted the challenge, again with enormous trepidation, and in this role continued to lavish on this organisation her friendly warmth and her unfailingly courageous commitment to integrity. In almost a decade of being on Council, Lesley has been for NZAP in some respects like a good enough mother who inspires growth by her modeling of a wisdom that is grounded in common sense and her insistence on no nonsense individuation.
Her dedication to the profession, the branch and individual members, especially those getting started, has been characterized by her bold courage to speak out, even in the days when that was even more daunting than it is now. She was a President like none other. She became the sort of President that only Lesley could be. There is a staunchly defiant and determined side to Lesley, often emerging to the delightful accompaniment of her peals of slightly anarchic laughter.
Margot has done an exceptional amount of distinguished work for the psychotherapy profession in New Zealand over the last 25 years. She has contributed extensively to NZAP nationally and locally, and has been a leader in the field of psychotherapy practice, education and research for many years as a Clinician, Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader in the Department of Psychotherapy and Counselling at AUT.
Margot has a profoundly depth oriented, non- partisan, respectful approach to helping psychotherapists of diverse orientations engage with their own learning and growth in a group setting, and she has gone on to research and write about this learning process.
She responded to the call to bring University-based postgraduate psychotherapy courses to Christchurch in 2007 and 2008, and 2009. In subsequent years, she again responded to the request for access to this training and qualification pathway and travelled to Napier and Wellington to offer University-based advanced postgraduate training for psychotherapists. This was a personal effort motivated by a sense of justice and fairness in access to resources, given the only University offering such psychotherapy courses is based in Auckland.
Margot has also contributed significantly to promoting and creating opportunities for group work and group therapy in New Zealand in varied ways. She was a founding member of The Hakanoa Group in Auckland, which had links to The Institute of Group Analysis, London, and helped to organise training via this Institute in Auckland. In the AUT Psychotherapy programme, Margot (together with Russell Waetford) started the Community Kōrerō, a weekly large group following Tikanga Māori, for all students and staff. Her firm belief in the value of group therapy has seen her maintain a longstanding group psychotherapy practice herself, as well as maintaining a postgraduate teaching paper in group psychotherapy.
Her involvement with NZAP has been varied and enduring. She has been a presenter of papers, and has bravely stepped into a leadership space as facilitator of large groups at NZAP Conferences on many occasions. She has been on organising committees for Conferences, completed a term on Council as the Editor of the Newsletter, and has been an active member of the Northern Branch. She has contributed to the Association through participating in marking and panels for the Advanced Clinical Practice qualification. She is currently a longstanding member of the NZAP Ethics and Professional Standards Committee and she contributed to the Review of our Code of Ethics in 2018.
Margot's valuing of group process and group work, ethical practice, academia, and learning as a deeply personal engagement and integration, has been a distinguished contribution to the richness and depth of the NZAP membership and Association as a whole.
Marilyn Morgan is honoured for her contribution to NZAP and to Psychotherapy in New Zealand.
Marilyn has practiced psychotherapy in the Hawkes Bay for over twenty years. She has also provided supervision and training to many psychotherapists and colleagues in related fields during this time.
Her own training includes practice and training qualifications in Integrative Psychotherapy (Hakomi Method) and training in Process Work in Zurich. She recently completed the Masters of Health Science at Auckland University of Technology. When Marilyn acquires knowledge she then passes it on. She has a strong interest in both trauma recovery and neuroscience, and teaches these topics both nationally and internationally. She has an enviable talent for integrating multiple therapeutic models, evident in her many publications of training materials.
In 1995 Marilyn had a dream of starting psychotherapy training in the Hawkes Bay. She talked to colleagues and to the Dean of the Eastern Institute of Technology. A steering committee was set up and in 1996 the Diploma of Psychotherapy at EIT had its first students. More recently she initiated a cooperative venture between the Hakomi Institute in the USA and EIT. The first Hakomi Diploma started in 2000 and Marilyn is still involved with its administration and teaching. This achievement was an innovation for Hakomi training in that it was the first course within a tertiary training institute, and Marilyn had the task of developing the curriculum and having it NZQA approved.
Marilyn has also been a member of Council as well as serving on a sub-committee on training ethics and professional standards. She is a member of the Hawkes Bay Supervisors Group and is currently a member of the National Supervision Committee.
Through Marilyn's passion for both psychotherapy and teaching she has been an inspiration to many budding psychotherapists in New Zealand. She embodies the essence of a psychotherapist in the way she lives her life, and she is held in high esteem by those privileged to know her.
Job Titles:
- Chairman Ethics and Professional Standards
Peter McGeorge has been a member of the New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists since the 1970s. He was an Executive member from 1982-89 and was President in 1987-88. As an office bearer he was influential in moving the Association towards a greater emphasis on professional standards and accountability. He stood for professional competence in practice rather than formal credentials as the basis of membership. NZAP had been pursuing the goal of registration for psychotherapists, but this foundered in the political climate of deregulation in the late 1980s. Peter and others were extremely concerned about the potential for harm in the unethical practice of some self-proclaimed ‘psychotherapists', and embraced the task of developing a Code of Ethics for NZAP. This was achieved, and was followed by the establishment of the first Complaints Procedure.
For some years Peter ran training workshops in Gestalt Therapy and in doing so not only inspired psychotherapists and future psychotherapists with enthusiasm for this modality but also introduced them to a way of working on their own therapeutic needs. He modeled professional expertise combined with compassion and respect for the personal and professional growth of the trainees.
Peter has had an important role in the New Zealand psychotherapeutic community as a psychiatrist who believes in the value of psychotherapy. From the beginning of his involvement with NZAP he challenged his fellow members to focus on issues of mental health and illness and to explore ways of helping severely troubled clients. As a member of the planning committee for the Psychotherapy training course at the then Auckland Institute of Technology, and the first Chairperson of the Advisory Committee for the course, he insisted on the need for the course to include information on working with the mentally ill. In more recent years, he has brought a psychotherapeutic perspective to his work as a manager of Mental Health Services in the public sector.
Peter's passion and recognition of pain touches and inspires those who know him. It leads him to put himself on the line in advocating for justice, compassion and excellent mental health practice, sometimes at personal cost. He is always willing to share his expertise and experience and continues to be valued as a warm, enthusiastic and generous "elder" of NZAP.
Rhona Carson joined the New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists in 1987 having been proposed for Applicant membership by Peter Reid and Ian McDougall. Although almost ready to present for Full Membership in 1993, Rhona began training in Self Psychology and as a consequence did not become a Full Member of NZAP until 1998.
While an Applicant, Rhona began making a valuable contribution to NZAP. She was a member of the Wellington Branch Committee in 1993 and was Branch Convener in 1994 and 1995.
Rhona was elected to the NZAP Council in 2001and was appointed to the position of Honorary Secretary in 2002. She held this position for six years being re-elected for the maximum allowance of two further two year terms, by the membership. Rhona retired from the Council and the Honorary Secretary position in 2008 after serving on the Council for seven years.
Rhona has many qualities that made her very suited to the role of Secretary of NZAP. Her habit of thinking deeply, her commitment to democratic processes, her inclusive nature and her ability to keep the wider implications of proposed changes in mind, have all helped steer and steady Councils through times of change.
As Secretary, Rhona developed a thorough working understanding of the Constitution and Rules of NZAP. During her seven years of service many Councils came to rely on her expertise and guidance on constitutional matters.
It is in these achievements that Rhona particularly demonstrates stellar qualities, her abilities to undertake quiet patient research, to apply a deeply disciplined reasoning to her thinking and conclusions and to write with eloquence and clarity.
Moreover Rhona has profound common sense and a strong sense of fair play. She encouraged transparency in Council's deliberations and communicated regularly with the membership by writing "from the Council Table" after every Council meeting.
Rhona's skills as a researcher, writer and editor have been called upon many times. In addition to being Secretary she held the Psychotherapy in the Public Sector portfolio, served on conference committees and was active in promoting support of the allied health professions. She wrote a job description for the Secretary position and worked to clarify the roles of the various committees that report to Council by encouraging them to develop Memorandums of Understanding. In 2007 Rhona worked with Sean Manning and Mary Farrell to produce, "A History of a Decade 1997-2006."
Rhona is one of a small group of Psychotherapists who have managed to work effectively within the Mental Health System. Rhona has worked for CCDHB for over 25 years and her psychotherapy skills have been well used. As a founding member of the Personality Disorder Service, her skills, both as a therapist as well as a group supervisor and a clinical consultant, are very evident.
Rhona is still actively contributing to NZAP. She is a member of the Wellington Supervisors Group, she represents NZAP's interests at the AHPAF meetings and she acts as a marker for the Admissions Committee. Much to the relief of Council, Rhona has also agreed to act as NZAP's Archivist. There can be no doubt that she is the ideal person to preserve the Association's records and to keep NZAP's institutional memory alive.
Job Titles:
- Founder of Psychosynthesis
Job Titles:
- ACC Representative
- ACC, AHANZ Representative
- AHANZ Representative
Job Titles:
- Ata Co - Editor / Waka Oranga