Nature Based Gestalt Therapy
23Sep(Sep 23)9:30 am24(Sep 24)4:30 pm
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Ashleigh Power ( She/Her) is the founder of TRIA and is a Gestalt practitioner and certified Eco Therapist (CMPACFA). Ashleigh is an experienced gestalt psychotherapist, educator and supervising consultant (Master Gestalt Therapy, Cert. Ecotherapy). She has 30 years clinical experience supporting individuals, families and groups.
Ashleigh’s relationship to country or place came as part of her recovery from cancer, where she became custodian of a parcel of land on Darkinjung country. It was during this time that she learnt to listen and be in relationship with country from a place of reciprocity to support healing and wellbeing. This led her to study Eco Therapy formally with Dave Talamo of Wilderness Connections and build this work into her practice as a Gestalt therapist and educator.
Gina O’Neill (She/Her/Ia) is a descendant of Ngāti Kahungunu, Rangitane (Aotearoa, NZ), Ireland and Germany, currently living and working on Eora and Bundjalung lands in Australia. Gina is an experienced gestalt psychotherapist, educator and supervising consultant (Master Gestalt Therapy, Grad Dip Couns., Cert. Ecotherapy and B App. Soc Sci). She has 20 years clinical experience supporting individuals, families and groups presenting with substance and process addictions, mental health, relationship issues and trauma-related experiences. Gina has worked in private psychiatric clinical settings, NGOs and public health settings as a therapist and clinical manager and in the past 8 years as a consultant supervisor, educator/trainer, clinical specialist in the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation sector and is in private practice. She has completed further studies in working with Trauma using Indigenous models of care, ecotherapy and currently somatic abolitionism – cultural somatic trauma practice.
Gina sits on the leadership group of the PACFA College of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Healing Practices (CATSIHP).
Over the years, the human suffering Gina sees in her practice comes from people feeling isolated and disconnected, starving for connection and support. Gina’s metaphor of walking back home together speaks to the re-connecting and healing our relationship with our Mother earth by incorporating Indigenous healing practices and psychotherapy in reciprocity with nature.