Faculty

Robert is a clinical psychologist, psychodynamic psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, researcher, and Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane. He founded QUT's postgraduate clinical psychology training program and remains active as a clinician, teacher, and researcher. His research interests include psychotherapy process and outcome, and the psychological experiences of people from refugee backgrounds. He has served in several professional leadership roles, including as a past Chair of the Psychology Board of Australia (Queensland). Robert is a Board-approved supervisor with endorsements in both clinical and counselling psychology. 

Area of supervision interest: Psychodynamic psychotherapy, adopting a relational stance, focus on adults. Working with more complex presentations.

Rebecca is a clinical psychologist, psychodynamic therapist, and clinical supervisor with special interests in complex mental health difficulties, early intervention for prodromal conditions, and parent-infant attachment. She has worked across community, inpatient, and private practice settings with children, adolescents, and adults presenting with psychosis, depression, anxiety, complex trauma, personality disorder, and deliberate self-harm. Her previous roles include Clinical Services Coordinator at Queensland University of Technology and Western Sydney University, and Senior Psychologist within Queensland Health and NSW Health. Rebecca is a Board-approved supervisor with endorsement in clinical psychology. 

Sigrid is a clinical psychologist, psychodynamic psychotherapist, and Board-approved supervisor. She is a teaching staff member at the Brisbane Centre of Psychoanalytic Studies and a member of the teaching faculty of the Queensland Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Association. Prior to establishing her private practice in 2007, Sigrid worked in rehabilitation and community health settings across Berlin, Sydney, and Brisbane, with children, adolescents, and adults presenting with complex mental health difficulties. Her roles included clinical treatment, program coordination, and staff supervision. She also served as an external clinical supervisor for QUT's postgraduate clinical psychology program from 2007 to 2020. 

 Dave is a counselling psychologist with over 35 years' experience across the public and private sectors, and a Board-approved supervisor. Prior to establishing his private practice in 2004, he managed one of Australia's largest counselling agencies and held key advisory roles for state and federal governments, including membership on the Queensland Domestic Violence Council. Dave takes an integrative approach to practice, training, and supervision, drawing on systems theory, narrative therapy, mindfulness, sensorimotor approaches, and modern consciousness research. He recently completed his PhD exploring metacognition in men who use domestic violence, and his most recent publication is Treating Intimate Partner Violence with Metacognitive Interpersonal Therapy: The Case of Aaron. 

Andrew is a clinical psychologist and board-approved supervisor, with a private practice in Burleigh Heads. He draws on an integrative, flexible, and psychoanalytic approach to therapy and clinical supervision that aims to honour the uniqueness of individual experience. His clinical areas of interest include emotion, identity, trauma, relationships, personality, sex, gender and sexuality, change, loss, and trust. If you would like to get more of a sense of Andrew and the way in which he works, you can visit his website - www.drandrewgeeves.com- and listen to Three Associating, a podcast on relational psychoanalytic supervision that he has made with Professor Gill Straker and Rachael Burton – www.threeassociating.com.