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Jan Dugan: Counseling Psychologist
Jan is a psychologist with over 40 years experience dealing with people of all ages – children, teenagers, adults, couples and families. In all her work she has a practical focus in finding ways in which people can live a healthier, happier and more fulfilling life. She has recently devised a short course to assist people with sleep problems. She has conducted parenting courses over many years and has a special interest in helping people to enhance their relationships.
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Mark Cary: Counseling Psychologist
Mark works as an adult, child and family counsellor providing help for people of all ages to overcome a range of problems, including anxiety, depression, anger and trauma, so they can realise a better quality of life and be the best they can be. Mark has over twenty years experience as a counsellor and psychologist working in social and community organisations such as services for disability, child protection , foster-care and adolescent mental health . Mark special interest is men’s mental health and relationship programs. As a Director of the Total Health and Education Foundation he is responsible for overseeing the Centre for Healthy Living.
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Jan Gudkovs Program Director/ Counseling Psychologist
Jan has a deep interest in helping to relieve people’s suffering and to promote their emotional growth and sense of peace and well-being. She has worked with individuals and families to improve a range of conditions including anxiety, stress, depression, PTSD and relationship problems and to help individuals with their personal growth.
She also has an interest in psychosomatic problems and chronic disease.She conducts the Centre's Pain Management Program.
She provides assistance to corporate clients through Employee Assistance Programs and Critical Incident services.
She has undertaken training in Family Therapy and Clinical Hypnosis. Recent trainings in Mindfulness-based therapies have built on her own personal practice of Yoga for over forty years. As a Director of the Total Health and Education Foundation she is responsible for the health and stress programs conducted by the Foundation.
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Noel Ryan: Psychologist
BA (Double Honours) Applied Psychology 1974, University College Cork, National University of Ireland
Noel has worked in a wide range of human service systems for over 40 years and provides individual counselling relating to adjustment to changed life circumstances.
The various areas in which Noel has worked include:
- Developmental Disabilities
- Youth Corrections
- Rehabilitation
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Cerebral Palsy
- School Guidance Counselling
- ASD/Asperger’s
- Social Emotional Disorders
- Trauma
- Grief & Loss
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Clive Savage: Psychologist
Clive has had many years working as a guidance officer with Education Queensland. In this role he has garnered wide experience in assessing children's learning and behavioural problems. As a trained psychologist, he also works with school aged children, including adolescents, and their parents. He also works with adults with a wide range of personal issues.
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Lenore Neville: Clinical Social Worker
Lenore has degrees in Psychology and Social Work and is an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker with over 30 years of experience. She has worked with young people and adults in local government, university, school, hospital, community health, mental health and private practice settings.
Lenore favours a strengths-based, solution-focused perspective and has had extensive training in Family Therapy, the Nurtured Heart Approach, CBT, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Emotion Regulation and Depression, Anxiety, Trauma and Stress Relief techniques including Mindfulness, Visualisation, Relaxation, Yoga and Evidenced-Based EFT.
She believes therapy is about connection, trust and respect for the client, noticing values and unique qualities, and working together to find ways to face life’s challenges, gain new perspectives and a deeper sense of self-worth. She offers practical strategies and techniques for managing negative thinking, stress and low energy, improving relationships or coping with relationship breakdown.
Key areas of interest are: recovery from trauma and stress, coping with illness and life crises, loneliness and self-esteem, improving relationships, grief and loss issues.
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Nina Gudkovs: Medical Herbalist
After working as Senior Music Therapist at Multicap in Brisbane, Nina has undertaken training in Western Herbal Medicine. She has a deep interest in helping people with illnesses such as diabetes, heart disease, weight problems and mental health conditions that affect so many people today. She has found that Western Herbal Medicine offers an alternative that supports the body’s natural health-maintaining systems.
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Donna Drinan: Social Worker
Donna is an accredited social worker with years of practical experience in the school and government sector. Donna works as a counsellor and caseworker and is able to support people with accommodation and housing needs as well as increasing social participation. Her strengths lie in counselling for children and adolescents and supporting adults who live with anxiety, depression, grief and loss, parenting and adjustment issues and relationship concerns. Another of Donna’s strengths is early intervention and prevention of anxiety/depression using group work with children and young people. She is in the process of registering as an NDIS provider.
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Debbie Lane : Yoga teacher
Debbie has been a student of Yoga for over forty years. She trained initially at the Yoga Education Centre in Melbourne and continued her study of the subject when she moved to Warwick. She is experienced at taking classes for adults and young people, as well as for prenant mothers, and people with a range of chronic diseases.
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Gordana Sloss : Office Manager
Our administrative staff are a vital part of our team. They are responsible for creating an atmosphere of care and welcome that makes the Centre such a special place. Gordana is our go-to person. Every day she sorts out isssues relating to referrals, payments and generally helps out anyone who asks.
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Vicki Dwan : Reception
Vicki assists Gordana in the complex tasks of managing all the paper work, phone calls and caring for both the staff and the wide range of people who come to the Centre.
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