Jane Faulkner is a psychotherapist who uses Gestalt and Equine Assisted Therapy in her practice. She currently works at the Gwinganna Lifestyle Retreat as an Equine Assisted Psychotherapist and retreat facilitator. She is the Director at Equine Assisted Therapy Australia, an RTO providing Nationally recognised training in Counselling and Equine Assisted Therapy.

Jane uses the following to support her clients:

• Gestalt Therapy
• Equine Assisted Therapy
• mindfulness techniques
• Art therapy
• Yogic philosophy; and
• horsemanship to support her clients.

Her clients include corporate CEO’s seeking career coaching and support, victims of trauma, adoptees with attachment difficulties, autistic individuals, people with anxiety and depression, families, couples and teens feeling stuck, frustrated, and lost.

Jane was diagnosed with PCOS and had severe acne, low self-esteem, and chronic fatigue syndrome throughout her teenage years. This led to an exploration of many different modalities of healing, travelling around the world in search of health and wellness. Jane started her career as a Registered Nurse and worked in the hospital setting and community both here and overseas.

As a result of her own ongoing health difficulties she attended a therapist, and it was this experience that lead her to begin her journey into becoming a therapist herself. Jane found her home working with horses!

For all the links Jane spoke about and her recommended reading list check out the show notes!

This is Episode 8 of the Q and A series with psychologist Moshe Lang.  Moshe Lang is one of Australia’s best known family therapists, a renowned author and teacher. He has been practicing psychotherapy for over 52 years and is insatiably curious, and wonderfully wise.

Every fortnight WAWID listeners send me questions that Moshe generously answers. These questions can be be about anything to do with his journey, therapy or the field of mental health ore generally. If you have a question we'd love to answer it!

This weeks questions from WAWID listeners are:

• Developmental trauma is currently at the forefront of research with better understandings of how trauma can effect childhood development. In your experience as a family therapist, what is the most important focus for families who are dealing with a child with complex trauma? Terra (Canada)

• Moshe, what do you think about guilt? Is it real, is it useful? Should one have it?  How is it enabling or impeding?  And what's it's relationship  to shame, particularly in a family context?  Any thoughts on this? Emily (Germany)

For more information on Moshe Lang check out the show notes or listen to his 3-part episode on We All Wear it Differently.

This episode was sponsored by the ANZ ACBS 2016 Conference in Melbourne between 5-9th November .  If you’re interested in Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT), Compassion and Mindfulness check out their website for further details!

This year they have pre-conference workshops that will appeal to a broad range of practitioners:

• Dr Dennis Tirch - a world expert on compassion-based therapies
• Dr Matt Villatte - an intensive training on values work to foster meaning and motivation, using clinical Relational Frame Theory principles (for background: http://drericmorris.com/2016/05/02/mtccreview/)
• Dr David Gillanders - an international expert in health psychology, presenting on acceptance, mindfulness and values applied to medical problems.

All three pre-conference workshops are suitable for beginners and those on training courses, with a very competitive student rate to register!

Dr Brooke Davis is a senior clinical neuropsychologist at St Vincent’s Hospital and The Mind Room. She is particularly interested in how Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) can be used with clients in neuropsychology settings to enhance wellbeing and promote positive change regardless of the challenges they face.

As a supervisor of students and early career psychologists Brooke provides us with many pearls of wisdom about how we can utilise ACT principles in our own work and personal lives, to manage challenges, increase our skills sets, and have long and sustainable careers.  

For all the links Dr Davis spoke about and her best self-care tip, check out the show notes.

This episode was sponsored by the ANZ ACBS 2016 Conference.  If you're interested in Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT), Compassion and Mindfulness check out there website for further details!

This is Episode 7 of the Q and A series with psychologist Moshe Lang. Moshe Lang is one of Australia’s best known family therapists, a renowned author and teacher. He has been practicing psychotherapy for over 52 years, 

Every fortnight WAWID listener's send in questions for Moshe to answer. These questions can be be about anything to do with his journey, therapy or the field of mental health more generally.

Moshe is insatiably curious, and wonderfully wise.

This weeks questions are from Jensen Young:

• How would you work with an adolescent in individual therapy if they continually report that their parents are not meeting their attachment/emotional needs (say through emotional neglect, or consistent criticism), and the parents refuse to engage in family therapy?
• In adolescent and family therapy, what do u do when parents are uncooperative, or highly critical of their children in and out of sessions, or fail to consider your feedback?
• There are many (if not the majority) of programs out there in the community that treat anxious children using individual therapy (often with individually focussed modalities like CBT or ACT). As a family systems therapist, whats your position on treating an anxious child using an individual frame? 
• Moshe you are trained in clinical psychology and in family therapy. Can u give some examples of when you would lean more towards one of these lenses in a) working with couples and b) working with families (i.e. what are your 'markers' for adopting a clinical psychology approach vs a systemic approach?)
• When you work with individuals, what are your preferred individually focussed modalities and why?

For more information on Moshe Lang check out the show notes!

This episode was sponsored by the ANZ ACBS 2016 Conference.  If you’re interested in Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT), Compassion and Mindfulness check out their website for further details!

Dr Kimberlee Burrows is a Research Fellow and lecturer at Deakin University, and a Research Fellow with the Centre For Investigative Interviewing. Dr Burrows has a Bachelor of Law (Hons) and Psychology (Hons) and a background in law and child protection. In 2014 she was awarded a PhD for her thesis entitled Improving the Evidential Quality of Child Witness Interviews about Abuse.

Dr Burrows research role involves working closely with police and legal professionals in Australia and overseas to both (a) incorporate legal requirements into child witness investigative interviewing protocol,and (b) provide legal professionals with professional development around principles of child development and trauma so as to minimise systemic abuse of child witnesses and maximise the quality of their evidence.

In addition to her research, Dr Burrows currently chairs the undergraduate unit Child & Adolescent Development (currently undertaken by approximately 1100 students) and teaches across a variety of Psychology undergraduate units including Psychology in the Criminal Justice System and Individual and Social Development.

In this interview Dr Burrows opens our eyes to the complexity of investigative interviewing, and her passion and energy for researching, developing and supporting the implementation of best practice interviewing in legal systems around the world is inspiring. A quick note - everything Dr Burrows has said in this interview is based on her own views and are not representative of Deakin University.

For all the links Dr Burrows spoke about and her best self-care tip, check out the show notes.

This episode was sponsored by the ANZ ACBS 2016 Conference.  If you're interested in Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT), Compassion and Mindfulness check out there website for further details!