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education and training

TONYA GABRIEL-BRENNAGH
ACADEMIC HISTORY

  • Registered Mediator 2023 Attorney-General’s Department Registration Number: F2002501

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  • EFS-ESSM International Accredited Psycho Sexologist (ECPS) Portugal 2018

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  • Justice of the Peace Department of Justice 2012 No. 12907

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  • Registered as an APS Health College Supervisor 2012

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  • Diploma of Clinical Hypnosis 2010 Australian Association for Clinical Hypnosis

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  • Registration as a Family Law Mediator 2008 Attorney Generals Department No. R0001793

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  • Diploma of Counselling (Family Therapy) 2008 Satir Centre of Australia

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  • Master of Health Sciences (Sexual Health) 2007 University of Sydney

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  • Master of Analytical Psychology 2005 University of Western Sydney, Major Thesis: The Demonization of the Feminine in Western Culture

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  • Diploma of Assessment and Training Systems 2004 Mt. Martha Community Centre

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  • Certificate 1V in Small Business Management 2004 Chisholm Institute

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  • Certificate1V Workplace Training and Assessment 2003 Chisholm Institute

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  • Certificate of Specialist Couple Therapy 2001 Relationships Australia

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  • Diploma of Frontline Management 2001 Chisholm Institute

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  • Certificate 1V Competency Based Training 1999 Chisholm Institute

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  • Graduate Diploma of Psychology, 1998 Deakin University, Major Thesis: The Impact of Vicarious Traumatisation upon those Therapists working in the area of Sexual Assault.

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  • Diploma of Clinical Hypnosis 1995 Australian Society of Hypnosis

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  • Registration as a Psychologist 1994 Psychologist Registration Board 3568 now Psychology Board of Australia PSY0001120296

2024-2025 training
undertaken recently

  • Accessibility: The positive impact of prosocial behaviours on mental health in children and adolescents webinar 2025 AIFS

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  • AFCC-Diversity Equity & Inclusion webinar 2025 AFCC

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  • Brain Gym 104 2025 Claire Hocking

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  • Within Gender & Shadow: An Ancient Future 2025 New Mexico Sandplay Societ

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  • Janus Symbol Study 2025 Sandplay Therapists of Hawaii

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  • The Brain’s role in Pain: Moving beyond “It’s all in your Head”. 2025 NOI Group

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  • Supporting non-offending parents after child sexual abuse webinar 2025 Emerging Minds

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  • Medical and Surgical Intervention in Male Fertility 2024 IFFS

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  • Expert Guidance for Dissociative Diagnosis Mary-Anne Kate and Colin Ross 2024 Hummingbird Foundation

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  • Violence Against Pets in the Context of Intimate Partner Violence 2024 AIFS

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  • Neo affirming Assessment and Care for Adults 2024 AAPI

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  • Cognitive and Academic Assessment testing for Children 2024 AAPI

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  • Hearing Voices 2024 Colin Ross

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  • Diagnosis & Treatment of ADHD Ari Tuckerman 2024 Hummingbird Centre

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  • Post-Prostatectomy Incontinence and Erectile Dysfunction 2024 Cabrini Hospital

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  • Gut Smart 2024

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  • Expert Guidance in Screening for Dissociative Disorders and Differential Diagnosis 2024 Delphi Centre

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  • Brain Behaviour, and Mind Lecture 2024 Centre for Deployment

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  • Individualising Treatment for People with Eating Disorders Nancy McWilliams 2024 ANZAED

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  • Managing Complexity when treating adolescents eating disorder-Understanding the needs of Autistic Children and Adolescents with Eating Disorders’2024 ANZAED

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  • Voluntary Assisted Dying in Victoria MRPCC

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  • Breast cancer: Pre-Operative therapy before surgery for early breast cancer 2024 VCCC

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  • Sexual Harassment and NDS 2024 WeareUnion

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  • GP education update on Kidney Stones 2024 Australian Prostate Centre

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  • Intimate Partner Violence: Foundations, Assessment, and Interventions Richard Heyman 2024 ABCT

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  • The Partnering Aspects of Peyronie’s: A heterosexual case study 2024 ISSWSH

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  • Neuro-affirming Assessment & Care for Adults 2024 AAPI

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  • Navigating Personal Injury Schemes as a Treating Psychologist. 2024 AAPI

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  • 19th World Congress on Menopause 2024 Melbourne

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  • Diagnosis and Treatment of Adult ADHD (A more useful model) 2024 Hummingbird Centre

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  • How to handle the daily challenges when prescribing oral MHT 2024 EMAS

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  • Remaking of FDRP Regulations 2024 National Family Law Pathways Network

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  • Perinatal mental health and psychotropic medicines in pregnancy 2024 PHN

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  • Menopause Migraines 2024 International Menopause Society

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  • Sexuality and Reproductive Health in LGBTIQ communities 2024 Women in the South East

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  • Responding to Family Violence: Complex cases EMDRAA

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  • Fighting for Connection: EFT and Intimate Partner Violence 2024

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  • Jef Sloomaejers MCEFT

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  • Sexual Assault, Family Violence and Elder Abuse-Services and Support 2024 Dandenong Casey Cardinia Community of Practice

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  • Adolescent Health Education Day 2024 RCH

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  • Sexual Harassment and NDAs VTHC

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  • Violence against pets in the context of Intimate Partner Violence: supporting victim-survivors 20024 AIFS

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  • Understanding and supporting grieving children 2024 QK Care

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  • Supporting fathers and fathers-to-be: Insights from research and practice 2024 AIFS

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  • Pleasure Matters 2024 SRHM

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  • Genetic Screening in Pregnancy 2024 Monash Health

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  • Perinatal Suicide: One conversation can save a life 2024 PANDA

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  • Images of Healing: Statues/Symbols from Cemeteries and how they appear in Sandplay 2024 Sandplay Therapist of America

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  • Supporting caregiver conducting family meetings: resolving family conflict 2024 Palliative Care ECHO

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  • Suicide Bereavement: Supporting those bereaved by Suicide 2024

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  • Mental Health Academy

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  • Empowering People to Manage their own Suicidal Thoughts and Feelings 2024 Mental Health Academy

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  • Young Men and Suicide: A Contemporary Lens on an age-old problem 2024 Mental Health Academy

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  • Social Determinants of Suicide 2024 Mental Health Academy

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  • Project ECHO Population Health Network-Child and Adolescent   Series 1 2024 PHN

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  • New Options and Improved in Diabetic Kidney Disease 2024 Inside Practice

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  • Using EMDR with Children and teens Incorporating Playful Solutions for powerful healing 2024 Ann Beckley-Forest & Anne Monaco EMDRAA

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  • Youth in Distress: Managing Suicidality and Self-Harm 2024 Black Dog Institute

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  • Introduction to Dementia Rehabilitation eCourse 2024 Monash University

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  • Assessment of ADHD Webinar 2024 Learning Links

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  • Feel Safe, Be safe; Protective Strategies 2024 Bright Futures

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  • ABC Pain Factory Investigation: Giving Consumers Clarity on Chronic Pain Surgical Options Webinar 2024 Chronic Pain Australia

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  • Fertility, infertility and Reproductive Health 2024 LBTQ sexual Health Webinar Series

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  • New options and Improved Outcomes in Diabetic Kidney Disease, 2024 Inside Practic

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  • Perinatal non-directive counselling training V2 2024 APS

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  • Project Echo: Child and Adolescent ADHD series 1 2024 PH

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  • Using EMDR with Children and Teens: Incorporating Playful Solutions for Powerful Healing Ann Beckley-Forest and Annie Monaco Webinar 2024 EMDRAA

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  • Social Media Influence on Sex Medicine: Foe or Friend 2024 webinar ISSM/SMSNA

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  • Infant Loss Programme 2024 Bump2Baby &Beyond

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  • Sex and the Spinal Cord webinar 2024 ISSWSH

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  • Explain Pain in the Clinic: Threat Danger and pain. How to adjust the danger dial in the pain experience Webinar 2024 NOI

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  • Smartphones APPS for Depression and anxiety in Young People webinar 2024 EMHprac/Black Dog

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  • Intimate Partner Violence: An Overview of Assessment with Military-Connected Clients 2024 Webinar Centre for Deployment

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  • Pivoting to the Perpetrator: How to engage with patients who use DFV Workshop Safer Families Centre 2024 Webinar

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  • Integrated Treatment Approaches to treat Comorbid PTSD and History of TBI 2024 Webinar Centre for Deployment

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  • Cognitive Rehabilitation and Exposure/Sorting Therapy -CREST for Hoarding Disorder: An Overview 2024 Webinar Centre for Deployment

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  • Introduction to Screening Tools and Overview of Sleep Disorders and Suicidal Prevention Strategies with Military-Connected patients

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  • 2024 Webinar Centre for Deployment

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  • Project Echo Population Health Network-Child and Adolescent ADHD series 1 session 3 2024 PHN

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  • Project ECHO Population Health Network-Child and Adolescent ADHD series 1 2024 PHN

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  • Masterclass: Eating Disorders & Perfectionism 2024 Tracey Wade ANZAED

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  • EYIM: Workforce wellbeing in the Early Years 2024 Anna Freud

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  • King Tut’s Existential Crisis: Applying archetypical and neurodevelopmental paradigms to treat children with severe anxiety using Sandplay and play therapy 2024 Hawaii Sandplay Therapy Group

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  • Breaking the Stigma of child death 2024 Anna Freud and NCMD

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  • Short Mental; Health Interventions: reflective Writing for Clinicians 2024 Black Dog Institute

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  • Lipids, Stroke & Secondary Prevention 2024 webinar United Clinical

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  • Brain Dance 2024 Brain Gym Lara Mariah-Jane Thies

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  • UK Trauma Council/Insight Series- Childhood trauma, the brain, and the Social World David Tricky & Eamon 2024 Anna Freud Centre

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  • Traumatic Bereavement: Working therapeutically with Children & Young People 2024 Anna Freud Foundation

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  • Breaking the stigma of Child Death 2024 Anna Freud Foundation

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  • EMDR with Eating Disorders & Sexual Shame 2024 EMDRIA

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  • EMDR and eating disorder Caroline Burrows 2024

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  • Eating Disordered Behaviours with Type 1 Diabetes-complex, common, and best managed by collaborative care Webinar 2024 ANZAED

further recent training
Developed and Facilitated

  • The Pagan in Sandplay in Sandplay. The Sandplay Therapist of Hawaii 2023

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  • Just Entranced: The Interface between Sex Therapy and Hypnosis AHA

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  • Intimate Conversations: Cancer, sexuality and hypnosis: MHPN Cancer Interest Group

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  • Sexing in the Millennium with Christopher Fox MHPN Mornington Branch

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  • Erotic & Hypnotic: Integrating the treatment of Sexual Health concerns within a hypnosis framework ASSERT

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  • Female and Male Sexual Disorders: Assessment and Behavioural Interventions that work –Imago Interest Group 

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  • Emotional Regulation for Clients-Imago Interest Groups

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  • Information Sessions for Gambler’s and their families Gambler’s Help

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  • Moving on after a Relationship Breakdown Griefline Bethlehem Hospital

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  • Introduction to Mediation for Victoria Police Inspectors Resolutions Glen Waverly Police College Academy & Airlie South Yarra

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  • Looking forward to 2004 with Passion Griefline Bethlehem Hospital

hypnosis training
Developed and Facilitated

  • Just Enchanted: The interplay between sexual health counselling and Hypnosis workshop, Australian Hypnotherapists Association

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  • Feeling More: Psychosomatics and Hypnosis, Brisbane ASH Federal

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  • New Beginnings: Hypnosis and Childbirth, Brisbane ASH Federal

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  • Stones dropping the water: Aging and Hypnosis, Brisbane ASH Federal

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  • Moving towards Change: Hypnosis and behaviour change, Brisbane ASH Federal

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  • Enraptured: Hypnosis and sexual functioning in terms of becoming me: Adolescents, Children and Hypnosis, Brisbane ASH Federal

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  • Cancer and the elderly: Hypnosis and cancer, Brisbane ASH Federal

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  • Being Lovely: Hypnosis and weight management, Brisbane ASH Federal Focused

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  • Psychological Strategies: Habit Change & Hypnosis, Australian Society of Hypnosis

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  • Hypnosis & Children Focused Psychological Strategies for working with Children Australian Society of Hypnosis

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  • Imagery, Aesthetics, Novelty and Nuance: The creative side of focused psychological strategies and hypnosis, Australian Society of Hypnosis

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  • Hypnosis, Relationships and Sexual Functioning, Australian Society of Hypnosis

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  • Imagery, Aesthetics, Novelty and Nuance, Australian Society of Hypnosis

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  • Hypnosis and children: Working Creatively with minors, Australian Society of Hypnosis

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  • The Nature of Change using a hypnosis perspective, Australian Society of Hypnosis

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  • Case studies in Hypnosis 2008 Australian Society of Hypnosis

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  • Bring me rapture! Give me bliss! Hypnosis and sex therapy 2007 Australian Society of Hypnosis

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  • Erickson & Rossi: Looking at the Mind and Body from a different perspective Key Note Speaker Australian Society of Hypnosis AGM 

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  • The Uses of Hypnosis Australian Society of Hypnosis

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  • Training: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Hypnosis

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  • Relaxation, Stress, CBT and Hypnosis Australian Society of Hypnosis

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  • Hypnosis and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Australian Society of Hypnosis

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  • CBT what is it? Training for Non-Psychologists Australian Society of Hypnosis

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  • Hypnosis with Anxiety Disorders Australian Society of Hypnosis

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  • Making Meaning of Trance: Hypnosis what is it? Australian Society of Hypnosis

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