PhD, FAPS, FCCLP

Rob Gordon is a clinical psychologist who has worked in the fields of grief, trauma, stress and work-related trauma for 30 years. He has been a consultant to the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services since 1987, and The Australian Red Cross Emergency Services since 1995. He has worked with individuals and communities affected by natural and human caused disasters and provides regular training and consults to a wide range of government and non-government agencies in the human service fields. He conducts a psychotherapy practice in Box Hill North, in Melbourne. He is President of the Australasian Confederation of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies.

Trauma Psychotherapist

Ros is a NZ Registered Psychotherapist with the Psychotherapy Board Aotearoa New Zealand (PBANZ), a member of the Assoc. of Psychotherapists Aotearoa New Zealand (APANZ). She has a Masters of Health Science (Psychotherapy) First Class Honours, and is currently completing a Ph.D in Creative Writing. Ros has been a senior lecturer in NZ tertiary institutes training students of counselling, social work and psychotherapy. She also enjoys providing clinical supervision to other mental health professionals. She has thirty-seven years experience in the mental health field and has a special interest in trauma and recovery and women’s mental health. Ros works with clients who struggle with depression, anxiety, trauma, grief and loss, addiction; in areas of both individual and group psychotherapy. Ros’s clinical work is informed from a psychodynamic perspective which emphasises the quality of relationship between therapist and client, a belief that the past impacts the present and therefore it can be useful to explore the past so one can make more sense of present difficulties. She believes that psychotherapy should be a co-operative experience between therapist and client, with the therapist always respecting the wisdom and life-experience of the client. Ros also brings to her work the wisdom of her own lived experience as a survivor of intimate partner violence trauma, as well as her own journey of grief and loss after losing a loved one.

Mt Eliza Clergyman

Rev Cameron McAdam Cam has spent many years standing with families experiencing grief and loss. He will bring a practical view on the process of dying and the subsequent events to celebrate a person’s life. He is currently the ‘Minister of the Word’ at The Village Church in Mt Eliza where he has developed a reputation for strengthening the local community.