Robin is available for private counselling, personal development courses, training and as a professional supervisor.

Beginning September 14, Robin will be facilitating a 7 weeks short course in the 'Art of Living Creatively' program:

The healing power of sound

If you wish to enrol in this short course, contact Kate: 0419 246 389

or email: robin (at) lifeways.net.au

Qualifications

PhD; M.Ed.St; B.Ed (EC); Dip. Philophonetics-Counselling Practitioner; Adv. Dip. Holistic Counselling; Cert. Adult Teaching/ Learning; Cert IV Workplace Assessment/ Training; Cert. Couple Therapy

Professional Memberships

Profile

Robin's experience includes over thirty years as a mother, teacher, educator and counsellor/ psychotherapist working with people of all ages. For 21 years she worked as an early childhood teacher in the Yarra Valley area; and as a supervisor of teacher trainees at university and Tafe. She incorporated counselling into her teaching by training as an Adlerian counsellor and parent educator in the late 1980’s. In the mid-1990’s

Robin completed further training as a Philophonetics practitioner (now called Psychophonetics), and from 1995-1999 practiced at the Melbourne Therapy and Medical Centre, and at the Clayton Whole Health and Medical Clinic.  

Alongside counselling, Robin also worked for several years as the college coordinator/vice-principal, teacher and supervisor in the Advanced Diploma counselling training courses at Persephone College in Melbourne; as well as doing other contract teaching and welfare work in a number of other organisations.

From 2001-2006 Robin was living in WA where in 2005, she completed a PhD research thesis on the holistic nature of change and transformation through Psychophonetics psychotherapy, based on the client's experience of change.

Robin loves being a grandmother and being a facilitator, encouraging others to become who they are.

Walking the labryrinth in Chartres Cathedral, France

Robin has been to Chartres cathedral a number of times and intends to go there again as part of the Wisdom university community program. Being at this place and walking the labyrinth can be a profoundly transformative experience and each year a group of people from Wisdom university gather there to explore one of the seven liberal arts and to deepen their connections as a community and as an evolving modern mystery school - as a 'New Chartres school'. See Apela Colorado's 2009 youtube report on the group's dreamwork experiences

New book on Psychophonetics coming in October 2010

Psychophonetics: Holistic counselling and psychotherapy

Stories and insights from practice

Robin has recently completed writing and editing a book on the practical work of Psychophonetics, including contributions from a number of colleagues. See Resources page for more information about this book.

Robin can be contacted by email: robin (at) lifeways.net.au

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