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Hanna Nowicki (BA(Psych), BLL, Postgrad.Soc.Admin, Cert IV Training & Workplace Assessment) Hanna has a degree in law, psychology and in social work. She is an accredited De-briefer and Workplace Trainer. Her professional experience is wide ranging. She worked in suicide prevention, mental health, child protection, multi cultural practice, and taught social policy at university. She established and managed the SA Mental Health Training Centre with the NSW Institute of Psychiatry.
Hanna has been a guest lecturer at universities and presented numerous papers at conferences. Since 1996 Hanna has trained nearly 20 000 of professionals in suicide risk assessment, depression, self-harming behaviour, and personality disorders. Hanna speaks four languages and lives in Adelaide, South Australia. She is the founder and Managing Director of TATRA.
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Lane Pederson (PhD)
Dr. Lane Pederson is the author of The Expanded DBT Skills Manual for Self-Help and Individual and Group Therapy Settings and the founder of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy National Certification and Accreditation Association (DBTNCAA), the first active organization to certify DBT providers and accredit DBT programs. Dr. Pederson is also the co-owner of Mental Health Systems, PC (MHS), one of the largest DBT-specialized practices in the Midwest United States. At MHS, he has overseen the care of thousands of clients in an intensive outpatient setting.
He has extensive experience developing and adapting DBT programs and is an in-demand international speaker and consultant, having trained well over a thousand professionals in DBT and personality disorders. He has provided consultation related to personality disorders across all levels of care and has provided consultation to therapists, teams, case-management agencies, and mental health clinics. He has also developed DBT programs for adolescents and adults.
Moving beyond the orthodoxy of standard DBT, Dr. Pederson is an outspoken advocate of evidence-based practice and “doing what works” with clients across diverse settings and levels of care.
Dr. Pederson takes a positive, strength-based approach and has a fresh and accessible take on working with clients. Knowledgeable, humorous, and sometimes irreverent, he will help you understand and apply evidence-based DBT skills in your practice and work setting. Dr. Pederson has been highly rated by audiences for making concepts accessible and practical to therapists.
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Eric Gentry (PhD)
Eric is an internationally-recognized leader in the study and treatment of compassion fatigue. Under Prof. Charles Figley's direction, Gentry developed the Accelerated Recovery Program for Compassion Fatigue with Anna Baranowsky, Ph.D., and Kathleen Dunning. In 1998, Gentry and Baranowsky introduced the Certified Compassion Fatigue Specialist Training and have trained thousands of professionals towards this designation since that time. Gentry has worked with hundreds of practitioners following their work with disaster survivors. Dr.Gentry draws equally from his scientific study and from his rich history of 24 years as a professional therapist to provide this training. His commitment to his mission to assist professionals, helping them to become more effective with minimal symptoms is evident throughout this training.
Dr. Gentry was one of the original faculty members of the Traumatology Institute and later became the co-director of the International Traumatology Institute at the University of South Florida. He is the co-author of Trauma Practice: Tools for Stabilization and Recovery. He has a private clinical and consulting practice in Sarasota, Florida, USA, and is adjunct faculty at many universities.
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Patrick McGrath (PhD)  Patrick is the author of The OCD Answer Book and the workbook Don't Try Harder, Try Different. He is also the Director of the Centre for Anxiety and Obsessive Compulsive Disorders at Alexian Brothers Behavioural Health Hospital. Currently, Dr. McGrath directs both a Partial Hospitalisation and an Intensive Outpatient Program for OCD and anxiety. He is the Co-Director of the School Anxiety/School Refusal Program and was recently awarded a grant from the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs to begin a PTSD treatment program for returning veterans from Iraq.
In addition to treating clients, Dr. McGrath trains students from graduate schools across the metropolitan Chicago area and provides training on anxiety disorders. Dr. McGrath's postdoctoral fellowship was at the St. Louis Behavioural Medicine Institute. His experience includes leading the Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT) component at Michigan State University’s Counselling Centre and launching the Anxiety Services Program at Linden Oaks Hospital at Edward in Naperville, Illinois, treating individuals with intensive CBT and Exposure and Response Prevention treatment for all anxiety disorders. Dr. McGrath is a regular speaker at conferences for the Obsessive Compulsive Foundation (for which he is on the Scientific Advisory Board), the Anxiety Disorders Association of America and the Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies. He has been featured on PBS television in Chicago for his work on PTSD, as well as in the Chicago Tribune, Daily Herald and on over 300 radio stations across the USA including WGN, The Sally Jesse Raphael Show and National Public Radio. He has also been featured on the documentary “Anxious” for the Discovery Health Channel, and three episodes of “Hoarding: Buried Alive” for the Learning Channel. |
Leslie Lundt (M.D.) 
Leslie is a psychiatrist in private clinical practice in Boise, Idaho, where she treats children, adolescents and adults. She has practiced psychiatry and addiction medicine for the past 21 years and treats clients with bipolar disorders. In addition, she has conducted numerous clinical research trials as a primary investigator. Dr. Lundt serves as a consultant to the media, pharmaceutical companies and to the Idaho State Board of Medicine. She is an affiliate faculty member of Idaho State University and Santa Barbara Graduate Institute.
Education is a vitalpart of Dr. Lundt’s professional and personal life. She has directed Foothills Foundation, a non-profit educational group dedicated to teaching the public and other medical professionals about mental health topics. In addition, she co-founded a school for gifted children. Dr. Lundt lectures extensively and is well-known for her engaging and informative presentations. Special interests of Dr. Lundt include women’s mental and reproductive health, psychopharmacology and addiction psychiatry. At the intersection of these interests is her work diagnosing and treating patients with bipolar disorder. She is the author of You Think Like a Psychiatrist: Understanding Psychiatric Medications and the companion case book, Think Like a Psychiatrist: 40 Cases.
She received her undergraduate degree from Johns Hopkins University and her medical degree from Rush Medical College. She trained in psychiatry at the California Pacific Medical Centre in San Francisco where she was Chief Resident and had additional training in addiction medicine at the Haight Ashbury Clinic. Dr. Lundt is board certified in psychiatry, addiction medicine and addiction psychiatry.
David Nowell (PhD) David is a clinical neuropsychologist in private practice in Massachusetts(USA). One of his passions is the translation of neuropsychological and brain research to functional and understandable terms which clients, families and practitioners can quickly put to use to solve real problems. His research interests include the impact of traumatic brain injury on social and occupational functioning. He has served as clinical director of the Learning Disability Assessment program at UMass Medical School Disability Evaluation Service.
David speaks internationally and trains professionals in human services organizations, hospital staff and welfare agencies. A member of the American Psychological Association and the Massachusetts Neuropsychological Association, he earned his doctorate at the University of Alabama and completed an internship program in neuropsychology at Tulane University Medical Centre in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Adrienne Jeffries (B.SW, M.SW, Dip. Psychosynthesis) 
Adrienne is a gifted counsellor psychotherapist and trainer.
She has experience in Transactional Therapy. Family Therapy, Psychosynthesis, Couple Therapy, CBT, Interpersonal Psychotherapy, Grief Counselling and Gestalt. She has extensive experience in clinical supervision. Adrienne has many years experience in the fields of child, adolescent, adult and family psychiatry. For many years, Adrienne worked with various organizations on developing treatment programs for children, youth, parents and indigenous people.
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Amanda Burlock (M.Psych (Clin), GCPA, BA (Hon.))
Amanda Burlock (M.Psych (Clin.), GCPA, BA (Hons.)) is the senior clinical psychologist at Modbury Hospital. Amanda also works in the public mental health service in Adelaide's Northern suburbs where she has developed the group program for the treatment of people with Anxiety Disorders and
other group programs (e.g. Managing Depression). She has extensive experience in the assessment and treatment of a range of psychological disorders, and is committed to the use of effective treatments with a sound evidence base. This commitment is reflected in her role as President of the Australian Association for Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy (SA Branch).
Other particular interests include the array of "third wave" cognitive therapies (e.g. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy). Amanda engages and supports her clients in their recovery by combining effective therapy programs with a warm and empathic approach.
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Margaret Hartstone (B Arts, M Arts (Psych), Dip Ed, Dip Clin Hyp) 
Margaret Hartstone (B Arts, M Arts (Psych), Dip Education, Dip Clin Hyp) is the senior clinical psychologist in the public mental health service in Adelaide's Northern suburbs. Margaret has extensive experience in the assessment and treatment of psychological disorders and has been involved in the training and supervision of mental health workers for many years. She actively promotes the use of effective treatments which are based on sound research findings. The assessment and treatment of anxiety disorders and depression have been the main focus of both her public and private work. Margaret was apart of the team that developed and managed the specialist Anxiety Disorders Program in the North West Adelaide Mental Health Service. In2004 the service she initiated for clients diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder was awarded the inaugural Margaret Tobin award. Margaret's teaching skills and wide range of psychology interests combine to convey her enthusiasm for assisting clients to acquire the skills they need in order to improve the quality of their lives.
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Robert Nay (PhD)
W. Robert Nay, Ph.D.is Clinical Associate Professor at Georgetown University School of Medicine and in private practice in McLean, Virginia and Annapolis, Maryland. Dr. Nay has written two graduate textbooks, numerous invited chapters and articles in professional journals and served as associate editor of the academic journal Behavior Therapy. He has trained over 4,000 mental health professionals in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) approaches to anger management and relationship issues. He has spent the last 30 years working with individuals, couples, parents and families to better regulate their anger and to effectively manage relationship conflicts. Based on available research, hundreds of hours of work with individuals, couples and families and the training he has provided to mental health professionals, Dr. Nay has developed a practical and effective program to address anger and conflict, alter anger-instigating beliefs and thinking, set new personal boundaries for acceptable behaviors and to teach collaborative problem-solving while defusing new conflicts before they can take root. His program is described in his new book Taking Charge of Anger: Six Steps to Asserting Yourself Without Losing Control: Second Edition (Guilford Press, 2012) and his recent book Overcoming Anger in Your Relationship: How to Break the Cycle of Arguments, Put-Downs and Stony Silences (Guilford Press, 2010). Dr. Nay is a sought after speaker, has often appeared on television and in national media and writes a relationship blog for Psychology Today in the USA.
Mitch Abblett (PhD) 
Mitch Abblet is a clinical psychologist, clinical administrator, supervisor and trainer. He has appeared on numerous regional television programs in USA, and has written in professional periodicals regarding children’s mental health needs. Dr. Abblett also works as the Clinical Director of Judge Baker Children’s Center’s Manville School, a well-established therapeutic day school for special education children with significant learning, emotional and behavioral challenges. In addition to his work with emotionally/behaviourally disordered children, Dr. Abblett has also worked with a variety of populations presenting difficult behavior patterns (aggression, trauma reactivity, combat veterans, sexual perpetration, and addiction). Dr. Abblett has conducted numerous trainings regarding clinical work with difficult populations, and is a dynamic, engaging speaker.
Terry Fralich (LCPC)  Terry Fralich is an adjunct faculty member of the University of Southern Maine Graduate School and a Co-Founder of the Mindfulness Centre of Southern Maine. He has led many workshops, generally in CBT, mindfulness, the latest developments in neuroscience and meditation. In addition, Terry has taught more than 200 courses throughout the USA on similar topics for mental health professionals. His book, Cultivating Lasting Happiness: A Seven-Step Guide to Mindfulness, presents both a clear exploration of the importance of mindfulness in our lives and a practical, accessible approach to nurturing growth and well-being through the path of mindfulness. Terry has pursued his own meditation and mindfulness practice for over 30 years.
He studied extensively with leading Tibetan teachers—including the Dalai Lama—and with some of the Western pioneers of mindfulness work—including Jon Kabat-Zinn, Jack Kornfield and John Welwood. Inspired by their teachings and his own study of meditation, Eastern wisdom traditions, transpersonal psychology and mindfulness, he earned a Master’s degree in clinical counselling and began both his counselling practice and his teaching activities.
Prior to becoming a mindfulness therapist, academic and counsellor, Terry was an attorney who practiced law in New York City, Los Angeles and Portland, Maine. |
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