COUNSELLING PSYCHOTHERAPIST & PSYCHOTHERAPY MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA
Hi, my name is Alison Ball.
My colleagues and myself are Psychotherapists originally trained in Melbourne Australia in the mid-1980's and onwards. I, personally have worked in private practice in Melbourne Australia since 1986. I currently work in Kew about six kilometres east from the centre of the city of Melbourne. I mostly work with individual adults in medium to long term psychotherapy as well as some short term counselling clients and the supervision of other psychotherapists and counsellors. You can click here if you wish to make a booking enquiry with me personally now.
My colleagues work in other Melbourne suburbs as below under their photographs. All of us have a continuing commitment to life-long learning so, as well as former careers and much life experience, we have all, before and since qualifying as psychotherapists, participated in numerous personal and professional development courses, workshops, seminars, conferences and lecture series as well as our own therapy and on-going supervision Click on "My Work" for further details about my work and experience and Click below on a photo to read the individual profiles of each of my colleagues. Alternatively, if you wish to make a booking enquiry right now click on
Marisa in Ashburton; Judith in Clifton Hill and Fairfield; Ronit in Richmond; Sheila in St. Kilda Rd; Leonie in Carlton or the Yarra Valley.
Myself and my colleagues have also taken an active and prominent role in the formation and growth of our major professional association, the Australian Association of Somatic Psychotherapists (AASP). I, personally, have served there as President and in other capacities more than once. We are all also committed to doing the additional work it takes to maintain ourselves on the Psychotherapists and Counsellors Federation of Australia (PACFA) Register of individual practitioners and will therefore be eligible for the Australian Register of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (ARCAP) when that National Register comes into force in 2010. I also maintain myself as an accredited member of the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW)
As part of my own ongoing learning, in 1998 I completed a Masters in Psychoanalytic Studies at Monash University's Department of Psychological Medicine. The thesis was published as a book, the second edition of which is called "Taboo or Not Taboo: Reflections on Physical Touch in Psychoanalysis and Somatic Psychotherapy". You can buy my book for about A$25-00 from Psychoz Publications or by writing to P.O. Box 124 Kew, Victoria 3101 or by telephoning them on (Australia) (03) 9855 2220 or Fax (03) 9855 2225
Click on "History" to learn more about my own training and my links with the AASP. You can also learn more about my work and training as well as the AASP in the Appendix to my book (Click on "The Book")
and in a paper I wrote that was published in the February 2002 edition
of the journal "Psychotherapy in Australia". Click on "Papers"
for the full text of this paper and others that I have written.
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