Tony has been a teaching and supervising transactional analyst since 1989. He has also been a registered psychologist since 1986. He offers a variety of psychological services as well as transactional analysis counselling, training and supervision.

CONTACT

136 Loftus Street,
North Perth,
Western Australia 6006.

Phone: 08) 9328 8993

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Website: www.ynot1.com.au

QUALIFICATIONS

* Bachelor of Arts (1983)
* Certified Transactional Analyst (Clinical) (1981)
* Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (ITAA) 1989
* Certificate in addictions counselling 1996

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

* Western Pacific Association of Transactional Analysts (1985)
* Registration with the psychologists registration Board of WA (1986)
* Member of the Australian Psychological Society (APS) (1988)
* Member of the APS division of independently practising psychologists (1995)

BACKGROUND

I began conducting counselling groups in 1980 with a co-therapist when I was training for my first TA qualification as a clinical member. At the same time I was attending Murdoch university completing my honours degree in psychology. I found this a good combination - I learnt the practical skills of counselling with my TA training and a strong theory base of psychology with my university training.

Also from this early time I ran a bookshop called TA Books and co-ordinated the Transactional Analysis Workshop Institute which was the organisation that co-ordinated all the workshops and training of Jeff and Marg White.

My early counselling was with adults as well as focusing on work with children & teenagers, and this has continued throughout the past 24 years. This resulted in a series of articles such as teenage suicide (available on my website) and three books -

* How kids grow up and leave home
* Creative feeling - How to understand and deal with your child’s feelings
* Adolescence, anger and what to do.

My work with adults has been in a wide variety of formats including individual counselling, group counselling, couples counselling, family counselling, residential weekend and week long group counselling.

This has involved many of the common problems such as depression, anxiety and panic attacks, relationship problems, separation and divorce, loss and grief, sexual abuse, eating and sleeping disorders, addictions and so forth.

Over the years I have specialised in a number of areas. I was a consultant to St. John Ambulance Service for trauma debriefing for 10 years and produced a number of articles and a book on this topic. Other areas include: suicide and assessing suicide risk, symbiosis and attachment, the treatment of character and transference and so on. In more recent times I worked with addictions to drugs, alcohol and gambling in a drug rehabilitation centre.

Also recently I have run a respite program with the Association of Relatives and Friends of the Mentally Ill. This involves taking away a group of people with mental illness for a week long respite. This has been mainly with people who have schizophrenia, manic-depression, psychotic depression, or the borderline personality. (My writings on these areas can be found on my website.Tony's website)

Throughout all this time I have also done my formal psychology work such as psychological testing people for dyslexia and learning difficulties, career guidance, assessing for academic underachievement and personality testing for a variety of reasons including legal work.

OTHER TRAINING:

Tony has been training people in transactional analysis since the mid 1980’s. This has included the teaching of theory and supervision on the practicalities of hands on counselling. Tony has also supervised many psychologists for registration so his supervision is not only limited to TA but includes a wide variety of approaches to counselling. The supervision has included:

* Individual supervision
* Group supervision
* Supervising people to be supervisors