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Meet your committee
Dr Robert Craig has
spent 35 years in medical practice including twenty years in rural
general practice until his retirement this year. He has extensive
experience in psychotherapy and is the Queensland Chapter Representative
for the Australian College of Psychological Medicine. He has previously
worked as the mental health coordinator for the Toowoomba Division
of General Practice.
Dr Alan Fahey is a fellow
of the ACPM and Committee member of 6 years standing. He works in
private practice at Wentworthville in Sydney. He established The
College of Medical Hypnosis and teaches courses in CBT, hypnosis,
guided imagery, stress management and relaxation courses for doctors
and allied health professionals. He also produces hypnorelaxation
cassettes & CDs for a range of subjects.
Alan's practice involves eclectic psychotherapy including hypnosis,
relaxation, Neurolinguistic Programming, Transactional Analysis,
Biofeedback, Gestalt & Psychodynamic elements. He is a foundation
member of the College of Hypnotherapists, a non profit society for
health professionals who also use hypnotherapy.
Dr Cate Howell is a
General Practitioner and President of the Australian College of
Psychological Medicine. Cate is Director of the Primary Care Mental
Health Unit in the Discipline of General Practice at the University
of Adelaide. She has a long-standing interest in primary care mental
health, and has done extensive post-graduate training in this area.
Her general practice involves predominantly mental health work,
with a focus on counselling, hypnosis and cognitive-behavioural
therapy.
Cate was awarded a year 2000 Churchill Fellowship to study the
assessment and management of anxiety and depression overseas. She
has been undertaking a doctorate in the area of depression relapse
prevention at the University of Adelaide, and has been extensively
involved in teaching mental health to general practitioners and
allied health practitioners.
Dr Samantha Stevens
is a General Practitioner and Vice- President of the ACPM. Her counselling
practice in Katoomba NSW was established in August 2004. Her interests
are cognitive behaviour therapy for depression and anxiety problems,
and she is currently undertaking postgraduate Studies in Mental
Health at the NSW Institute of Psychiatry.
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