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Brief Biographies of AABCAP management committee (as of December
2007):
President
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DR
ENG KONG TAN ( MBBS.,MPM.,FRANZCP. ) is an analytic
psychotherapist, psychiatrist and practicing Buddhist, mainly
of the Theravadan tradition. Dr.Tan is the founder director
of Metta Clinic, a group practice consisting of psychiatrists
and psychologists in the North Shore of Sydney. He offers
individual, couple and group therapies in his practice as
well as individual and group meditations. He was formerly
Chairman of Training to the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Association of Australia (PPAA) and Chair of the Section
of Psychotherapy of the Royal Australian and New Zealand
College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) He has been on the Training
Advisory Board of the NSW Institute of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
(NSWIPP) and Faculty of Training of the Australian and NZ
Association of Psychotherapists (ANZAP).
Eng-Kong is a trustee member of the Universtiy
Buddhist Education Foundation of Australia ( UBEF ) and
Founder President of the Young Buddhist Association of Malaysia
( YBAM ). He has written and presented many papers, workshops
and keynote addresses on Psychotherapy, Buddhism, Meditation
and Spirituality in Australia and internationally. He is
currently on the Training Committee of AABCAP developing
a national Training Program integrating Buddhism and Psychotherapy
for counsellors, psychothrapists and members of the Sangha." |
Vice-president
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MEGAN THORPE (MA, Grad. Dip. Ed. Studies
(Health), Dip. Teach) trained in Core Process Psychotherapy,
a Buddhist-based psycho-spiritual psychotherapy, at the
Karuna Institute, in England. She is currently in private
practice at the Metta Clinic on Sydney's north shore.
She also works in the health service offering spiritual
care to patients who are dying and their families, and
manage a team of volunteers who offer additional support.
She has worked as a teacher, trainer and facilitator
in the areas of education, health and social welfare for
many years. Megan is the secretary of AABCAP's Training
Committee.
Over the last 20 years she has had experience in a number
of different Buddhist traditions, and since 2003 she has
been practicing in the Thai Forest tradition, with Ajahn
Sujato, the Abbot of Santi Monastery at Bundanoon.
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Treasurer
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DR BRIAN GUTKIN (MB,
BCH, BAO, DTCM, MACP, MANZAP, D Psychoth, FRANZCP) is
a Consultant Psychiatrist, Analytic Psychotherapist and
practicing Buddhist, mainly in the Zen tradition. Dr Gutkin
has his private practice at St. Leonards and Dee Why,
Sydney where he works with individuals with anxiety, depression
and addictions or suffering as a result of trauma in childhood
or adolescence. He is also Director of Psychiatry at South
Pacific Private Hospital Sydney. He has an abiding interest
in the value of Buddhist practice and spirituality in
health, healing and psychotherapy.
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Committee members:
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SWEE-HAA
TAN was a High School Teacher in Malaysia and was
a foundation member of the Young Buddhist Association of
Malaysia. Currently she is a committee member of the University
Buddhist Education Foundation Fund of Australia. She is
the practice manageress of Metta Clinic which consists of
psychiatrists and psychologists. As an affiliate member,
she is interested in supporting Buddhist Influenced Counselling
and Psychotherapy. She is mainly of the Theravadan tradition. |
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JOYCE
MAN (BA-Psych, Grad. Dip. In Science (Psych), M.
Psych. (Clinical)) is a clinical psychologist currently
working in the Department of Aged Disability and Home Care,
where she provides assessments and behavioural interventions
to adults with intellectual disabilities and their families.
She has been an active committee member of MacBuddhi- Macquarie
University Buddhist Society throughout her undergraduate
years, is a co-founding committee member of Mitra Youth
Buddhist Network and is currently in their 2007 organising
conference committee. She has also completed her masters
thesis on the efficacy of Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction
as a treatment for stress, depression and anxiety. |
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HELEN
SHARWOOD (BA Dip.Ed., M.A.,Psych., Grad.Dip Couns.,
I.Y.T.A.) is a registered psychologist in private practice
in Sydney and an associate member of the Australian Psychological
Society. She was a high school teacher and school counsellor
with the Department of Education of N.S.W. for 18 years
working in many different areas of Sydney. She was an intern
counsellor at the Institute of Counselling (2004) and has
worked mostly in a voluntary capacity for many organizations
including Telefriend Chatswood, Jewishcare, Anxiety Disorders
Alliance and SMART for addictions. Mindfulness practices
in different psychological therapies are of particular interest
to Helen in her counselling work.
She has followed different Yogic and Buddhist
traditions for many years attending long retreats in Australia
and overseas. She became a member of the Lotusbud sangha
in Sydney under Vietnamese Zen master Venerable Thich Nhat
Hanh five years ago.
Helen practiced yoga from an early age
and obtained her teacher training with the International
Yoga Teachers’ Association. She has taught Yoga for
various lifestyle organizations. The practice of mindfulness
in movement is the focus of her yoga class. |
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LINDA
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DR
DEV ATREYA (MBBS, FRANZCP) came to Australia in
1972 from India and qualified as a psychiatrist in 1979.
Since then he had worked as a consultant psychiatrist in
several hospitals, the last one being Macquarie Hospital
from which he retired in 2006. His special interest is psychoanalytic
psychotherapy in the British Object Relations School for
which he received training at the NSW Institute of Psychoanalytic
Psychotherapy in the early eighties. He is now in full time
psychotherapy practice at Metta Clinic, Sydney. He takes
a keen interest in all the spiritual traditions in general
and more specifically in the teachings of the eastern traditions
of Buddhism and Vedanta. |
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