Profiles
Dinah Buchanan
OTG Founder & Retreat Facilitator
M.Couns, Grad Dip Gest Th, Grad Dip Spiritual Direction, PACFA Registered
Dinah is the founder of Opening To Grace and facilitator for the ‘Opening to Grace’ Healing Retreats. She is a Gestalt Psychotherapist, Spiritual Director, Clinical Educator and Group Facilitator. She has offered personal / spiritual development and therapeutic services for over 25 years on the North Coast, Sydney & the Central Coast. She has also been a Gestalt Trainer & Counselling Skills Educator for the past 20 years. Dinah’s particular focus includes personal / spiritual growth, depression / anxiety and grief / bereavement.
Dinah has a passion for assisting others to discover their inner strengths, move through difficulties, transform their lives and realise their full potential. She has a special interest in understanding psychological crisis through a spiritual lens. Her particular joy is to accompany others on their own personal and spiritual journey, wherever that takes them.
She currently has a private practice in Sydney and on the Central Coast of NSW and works with Individuals, couples and groups.
“It gives me great delight to see others open to the possibilities that this journey has to offer. As the whole is greater than the sum of the parts, so the intangible ‘more’ awaits us …”
- Available for Personal Therapy, Clinical Supervision, Gestalt Spiritual Direction, training & development
- Springfield, Central Coast, NSW
- Contact: 0439 752 710 or email at dinahbuchanan18@gmail.com
Barry Buchanan
OTG Co-Facilitator
Barry is the co-founder and co-facilitator for the ‘Opening to Grace’ Healing Retreats. He has completed studies in Community Services/ Case Management / Theology / Gestalt Therapy. He also has an extensive background in the business and management world. Barry has a particular interest in combining spirituality with Gestalt principles and the powerful transformation that can occur through this medium.
Counsellors & Psychotherapists recommended by OTG
Naomi Sirio
Senior Therapist
Grad. Dip G.T. Graduate Member of GANZ
Naomi is a Graduate from the Sydney Gestalt Institute 2010 and has over twelve years of experience in case work in addition to numerous years of experience working with new parents. She currently has her own private therapy practice at the Impact Centre on the Central Coast which includes various training roles for Interrelate and the Blue Knot Foundation. Naomi’s past experience also includes working in various roles in domestic violence counselling & support as well as trauma work. Some of her special interests include: attachment issues, transition to parenthood/motherhood, grief & loss, the pregnancy journey, self esteem, relationships (including separation), family and couples therapy and depression.
PH: 0423 776 670
IMPACT Centre, Erina, Central Coast, NSW
Web: http://www.souljourn.com.au
Lisa Turnbull
Naturopath, Counsellor, Energetic Healer and Group Facilitator
Lisa Turnbull is a Naturopath, Psychotherapist, Counsellor, Clinical Supervisor, Energetic Healer, Group and Retreat Facilitator with over 20 years’ experience working in the field of complementary medicine treating the mind and body.
She specialises in working with women struggling with adrenal fatigue, hormonal and thyroid imbalances, gut issues, anxiety/depression and brings her years of training and experience together with her own personal journey of healing to support her clients reclaim their vitality, energy and lifestyle.
Lisa is based at Erina on the NSW Central Coast, she provides private consultations, workshops and international wellness retreats.
To make an appointment with Lisa phone: 0417 541 838
or for more information go to www.lisaturnbull.com.au
Leanna McNeil
Remedial Massage Therapy, Psychotherapy, Intuitive Bodywork, Counselling, Reiki & Energetic Healing
Leanna incorporates traditional methods of psycho-therapy along with INTUITIVE, ENERGETIC AND SPIRITUAL components to create a fuller integration between the mind, body and spirit, and to accomplish the greatest level of healing and self integration possible. Her specialty lies in her ability to read, feel, hear and understand your UNCONSCIOUS BELIEF SYSTEMS & LIMITING PROGRAMS, allowing you to get straight to the root of the issue, to create a powerful CLARITY reset and get you back on track.
PH: 0424 098 913
Website: https:/a McNeil /www.simplesacredspaces.com/services#packages
Doug Sotheren
Senior Therapist
Doug first trained as a relationship counsellor in 1970 – 1973 and undertook further training in Gestalt and Family Therapy. In the late 1980’s he developed an interest in body focussed, or Somatic models of counselling and has undertaken further training in this field. For eight years, from 1973, he operated a counselling centre in Western Sydney and then was involved in the creation of the LifeCare Counselling Service in Sydney. In 1989 he began a private practice as a Counsellor/Therapist, and human relations consultant on the NSW Central Coast.
His experience includes over 30,000 hours of counselling and thousands of hours of intensive clinical supervision and group training for counsellors and other health professional throughout Australia. He is a Clinical Member and Registered Supervisor of Australian Association of Relationship Counsellors, a Registered Clinical member of Christian Counsellors Association. He has a BA in Sociology and an M.Th. with focus on the family systems.
Available for Personal Therapy sessions
Springfield – CENTRAL COAST
PH: (02) 4324 3724