Dinah Buchanan
Dinah Buchanan, is currently the Director of Terrigal Gestalt Institute on the Central Coast, NSW, which offers professional development and training programs in Gestalt Therapy and Clinical Supervision. Dinah is a Gestalt psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor and educator, with many years of experience in counselling and supervision, Gestalt Therapy, group training and child and family health.
She has offered therapeutic services for over 20 years on the Mid North Coast, Sydney and now on the Central Coast, NSW. She has also been a Gestalt Therapy trainer and counselling skills educator for the past 15 years. She currently has a private practice in Sydney and on the Central Coast.
Dinah’s particular focus includes personal / spiritual development, working with dreams and metaphor / working with depression and anxiety / grief and bereavement. Dinah has a particular interest in working with dreams and imagery in creative and spontaneous ways, and has seen astonishing and profound changes in clients she has worked with in this way over the years. She also has a special interest in integrating spirituality and psychotherapy, and understanding psychological crisis through a transpersonal framework.
Dinah has a particular passion for training, mentoring and supervising practitioners, and helping them develop creative and life enhancing clinical practices. In addition to being Director of Training at Terrigal Gestalt Institute for the past six years, Dinah has conducted Gestalt training at the Sydney Gestalt Institute and Avondale College, and has published in the GANZ Journal. She has also been involved in program development for community organisations such as Interrelate, Lifeline and Home-start, and has been involved in educating and supervising counsellors and psychotherapists, pastoral care workers, coaches and community service volunteers.
Dinah has also developed and facilitated many different workshops, courses, and seminars to do with personal and spiritual development, dream-work, relational skills, relationship enhancement, practice management and integration of spiritual and Gestalt concepts. For more information visit www.terrigalgestalt.com.au
“It gives me great delight to see others open to the possibilities that the Gestalt journey has to offer. As the whole is greater than the sum of the parts, so the intangible ‘more’ awaits ...”