Return to Articles Gávi Ansara Acknowledgement of Country As a mixed polycultural psychotherapist, I have lived experience of marginalisation and exclusion from white Anglo Australian contexts, while cultivating cultural humility and accountability regarding my non-Aboriginal privilege. Living and working on unceded Boonwurrung Country in the Kulin Nations, I acknowledge the ongoing impacts of racism, genocide, …

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Return to Articles Rana Rose Kökçinar   With the increased acceptance of climate change as a current reality, the notion of climate change-related distress (CCRD) has entered dominant mental health discourse. As climate activist and organiser Daniel Sherrell (2021) expressed in his book Warmth: Coming of age at the end of the world: The full …

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Return to Articles Nell Azuri   Donald Winnicott (1960) famously said there is no such thing as an infant, there is only a mother and an infant. Similarly, we now see there is no such thing as a human being; there are only humans being embedded in the living biosphere. (Lewis, 2021, p. 369)  People …

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Return to Articles Jane Marsden  While the concept and research strategy of lived experience are still evolving, there is no doubt that they can “inform sharp critique” when used judiciously, particularly in the fields of social justice, health, and wellbeing (McIntosh & Wright, 2019, p. 449). Thus, for the development of psychotherapy, counselling, and Aboriginal …

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Return to Articles Patrick (Paddy) O’Regan   This paper provides a review of the literature that concerns the nature of gestalt professional education within the contemporary cultural context. It suggests that there are significant challenges to providing an ethically congruent training program within that context. It is based on the literature review that formed part …

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Return to Articles Megan Buys   Dear Reader, In deciding how to structure this piece, a piece that I am obviously passionate about, I realised I needed a way to convey this passion yet also remain on course with my argument and the ideas I want to share with you. At first, I decided to …

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Return to Articles Reviewed by: Louis Spence Book Review It seems appropriate to begin, as Gratton does in this book’s preface, by situating myself in relation to this subject matter. I am a queer, allistic (non-autistic), neurodivergent, non-binary, transgender psychotherapist. Gratton shares all of these identifications with me, except that they are autistic, and they …

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Return to Articles Natalie Salameh   By both nature and inclination, mental health practitioners are emotionally attuned to the needs of their clients and constantly give of themselves in the helping sphere (Skovholt & Trotter-Mathison, 2016). Mental health practitioners guide, instruct, educate, engage, assist, support, nurture, counsel, welcome, hold, and heal their clients on various …

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Return to Articles Chris Lamb   During my corporate career of more than 25 years in human resources (HR), I had thousands of conversations with individuals in many countries about career choices and experiences. I encountered a wide range of responses—from those who felt they had felt a calling from a young age to people …

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