Contact Us
 
Mail:
GPO Box 1979
SYDNEY 2001


Phone: 1300 888 606
Fax: 1300 888 606
Office Bearers
(Scroll down to meet some of your committee)

President : Cate Howell cate.howell@adelaide.edu.au
President-Elect: Robert Craig robert.craig1@bigpond.com
Secretary : Gwen Francis gfrancis@bigpond.net.au
Treasurer: Howard Gwynne
hgwyn@mpx.com.au
Public Officer : Amanda Harrison caharrison@ggn.com.au
Web Site Manager : Amanda Harrison caharrison@ggn.com.au

Committee Members: Alan Fahey alanfahey@mindperformance.com , Sybil Johnstone, Jenny Appleton


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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.