GANZ Council

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The new council for 2022 was sworn in at the Annual General Meeting of GANZ on the 14th of November 2021.

The Council roles are detailed in these documents:

• Executive Roles
• Chairs
• Constitution

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Annie Garrety

Secretary and International Chair

Annie is a Gestalt Therapist in private practice in the Sunshine Coast Qld. She has a special interest in depression and is currently piloting a new study on the phenomenological and aesthetic dimensions of this creative adjustment in the field. Annie has studied Clinical Issues from a Relational Gestalt Perspective with Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb and others at the Italian Gestalt Institute. She has a passion for connecting globally with Gestalt Therapists and is in an ongoing training group with gestaltist from many parts of the world. Annie is also a music teacher with years of experience teaching improvisation to small children. Her special interest in writing on Gestalt and meeting the unexpected with the unimagined- the recovery of an improvised life.

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Nathan Dick

Treasurer

Nathan runs a private practice in the Gold Coast (Yugumbeh Country), Qld and Murwillumbah (Bundjalung Country), Nth NSW. He is a devoted parent, with three children aged between eight and 21 and when time (and body) permits, he enjoys surfing. He’s trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and Depth Enquiry and is passionate about anti-oppressive practice. Although he works with many individual clients, Nathan prefers to work with relationships in a Gestalt and EFT-informed way, with a drive toward limbic revision and restructuring attachment through corrective emotional experiences.

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Michelle Sier

President and Professional Development

I am a psychologist and psychotherapist working in private practice in Melbourne.  I have a deep love for and commitment to Gestalt Therapy and the ways in which it invites and allows us to become aware of our capacities for change, choice and to live a fulfilling life.

I am passionate about professional development and how it can bring us together as a community to resource and support our work and connections to each other.  I am interested in understanding the ways therapists with different backgrounds and professional training and experience can connect and learn from each other clinically and relationally.  My hope is to expand opportunities for contact and learning, and to help facilitate creativity, vitality and passion amongst our community through professional development events.

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Karolina Krysinska

Research Chair and Vice President

I am a Gestalt psychotherapist in private practice at Lygon Therapy and a volunteer at the ConnectGround Clinic at the Gestalt Therapy Australia in Melbourne. I have completed Advanced Clinical Training in Contemporary Gestalt Therapy at The Relational Institute in Sydney. My interest in Gestalt psychotherapy reflects my passion for a deeper understanding of psychological and emotional well-being and satisfactory human relationships.

I am also an experienced research psychologist, and my main interest for the last 25 years has been suicide research and prevention, and postvention. I have also been involved in research on psychology of religion, dementia, and end of life care. Currently, I am a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Mental Health, the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at the Melbourne University and an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity at the University of New South Wales in Sydney.