I came to psychology in the early 1970s and graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Psychology degree in 1982 before registering as a psychologist.

Working in education, specifically in the Technical Education (TAFE) sector I simultaneously qualified as a 4 year trained teacher and worked in various capacities up to senior management level. In mid life I returned to study and upgraded my professional qualifications completing a Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology at Charles Sturt University in 2008 with a thesis involving fire fighters, trauma and help seeking.
 

Alongside my post graduate study, I focused on the private study of Analytic Psychology and I incorporate dream analysis and the unconscious into conscious thought analysis where this information is available.

 

My consulting room inside The Fremantle Rowing Club is in a beautiful, natural setting on the river in East Fremantle adjacent to parkland. Rowing changed my undisciplined teenage life and is a valued part of my every day. It is a simple, but not an easy discipline that contains my core values. Rowing taught me Mindfulness and The Power of Now well before these terms were introduced to contemporary psychology. Through thousands of miles, in all weather, at all hours of the day, in training and racing I came to learn a life lesson: The only stroke that moves the boat is the one you have in the water.  Know where you are headed then move yourself there one stroke at a time.