| Betty
Robb
is honoured for her contribution to psychotherapy and to the lives of
many hundreds of individuals and families.
In 1965 Betty attended a Leadership Course with the Federation of Parent
Centres, and started on the path which has been a primary focus of her
professional and personal life. In 1967 she and her family moved to
Auckland, and she became a driving force behind the establishment and
development of Parents’ Centres and Play Centres in the Auckland Region.
Betty’s work has been informed by Donald Winnicott and Daniel Stern
among others, and in more recent times she has worked hard on the establishment
of mother/infant parenting groups to provide a service to mothers and
their infants at the critical stage of early bonding and to deal with
emotions and responses which may impede satisfactory development.
In the 1970s Betty became an accredited Marriage Guidance Counsellor.
In 1974 she joined the Auckland Family Counselling Service, now the
Auckland Family Counselling and Psychotherapy Centre, where she was
a valued member of staff for thirty years.
Betty joined the New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists in 1984
by presenting a paper at Conference on Transference and Counter-transference.
She has contributed to the Association both regionally and nationally.
She has been a member of the NZAP Council and of the Admissions Committee,
has been Convenor of the Auckland Branch, and is a member of the Northern
Region’s Supervisors Group. She has presented regularly at Conferences.
In 1990 she also became a founder member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic
Psychotherapy and has been a member of the Committee on Psychoanalysis
of the Federation of US Societies of Social Work and a member of the
USA-based International Federation of Psychoanalytic Education.
As well as being a dedicated psychotherapy practitioner Betty is also
a respected teacher. She has been an invited lecturer at the Department
of Psychotherapy and Applied Psychology at AUT, a lecturer for the Foundation
of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy programme at AFCP, and a lecturer for
the Institute of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.
Betty has brought a tremendous energy and thoughtfulness to her work
in all its aspects, and has a commitment to providing and developing
services which enhance the lives of New Zealanders.
Charoltte Daellenbach
is honoured for her contributions to psychotherapy and to the New Zealand
Association of Psychotherapists.
Charlotte has been a member of the New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists
(NZAP) and a clinical member of the International Transactional Analysis
Association (ITAA) since the 1980s.
Her relationship to psychotherapy has been that of a vocation. At the
core of this have been the development of herself as a psychotherapist,
the development of psychotherapy as a profession, and the development
of others as psychotherapists. She has worked tirelessly and diligently
in these endeavours. She has contributed to psychotherapy both within
New Zealand and internationally and is held in high regard by her colleagues.
Over the last two decades Charlotte has taken up many and varied roles
within NZAP and ITAA - those of therapist, supervisor, trainer, supervisor
of supervisors, trainer of trainers, examiner, editor, mentor and coach.
She has held executive roles within both NZAP and ITAA. Within NZAP
Charlotte has served as President-Elect from 1998 to 2000, as President
from 2000 to 2002, and as Immediate Past President from 2002 to 2004.
She took up the role of Complaints Convenor in 2004, and currently serves
as the Chairperson of the Supervision Committee.
At the heart of Charlotte's modus operandi is her attention to relationship.
This has shaped the way she has carried out her various roles. In her
dealings with others she has modelled respect, compassion and integrity.
She has an ability to both hold and challenge others. Charlotte has
a warm, generous and bountiful spirit. These attributes form part of
the heritage that she imparts to those who have come into contact with
her.
Elisabeth Duncan
became a member of the New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists in
February 1983 after presenting a paper at the Conference that year.
She went on to serve the Association in many ways that made an impact
on its life and development.
Elisabeth’s wisdom, insight and acumen were of great service to the
Association in her roles as a member of Council and of the committees
on which she served. These included membership committees and committees
set up to clarify and specify requirements for supervision and supervisors.
She was Treasurer for the Association from 1994 to 1998. She managed
the Association’s money wisely and efficiently and by recommending a
realistic membership fee secured its financial stability for some years
to come. An astute investment of conference funds one year secured a
substantial sum, which became the basis of the current Education Fund.
Elisabeth’s contribution to psychotherapy and its development is, however,
broader than her direct work with the Association. Much of it precedes
her membership. First there was her groundbreaking work in the Dunedin
Women’s Prison. Professor of Psychological Medicine, Wallace Ironside,
recognised her calibre and potential and persuaded her to become a prison
visitor. He gave her training, supervision and support in this difficult
and challenging work.
Subsequently she became a founder member and director of the then Marriage
Guidance Council. While she was Director she actively facilitated the
development of counsellors and the spread of psychological understandings
across agencies in the city. In the 1970s and 1980s she recruited people
from many different disciplines to be involved as trainers, supervisors
and resource people for Marriage Guidance. In 1981 she and Professor
of Psychiatry Basil James, then President of NZAP, raised the possibility
of Marriage Guidance Counsellors joining the Association. Many of the
people who joined in the following years were people whose professional
discipline and skills grew and flourished in Elisabeth’s carefully built
and sustained milieu.
The New Zealand community of psychotherapists and many individuals
within it owe Elisabeth a great debt.
Jenny
Rockel
is honoured for her contribution to the New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists,
and, in particular, for her work as Editor of Forum.
Jenny has been a member
of NZAP since 1997. She has an Honours degree in English and experience
in editing as well as social work. She made an early and significant
contribution to the field by co-authoring a book on adoption.
Her commitment to professional
excellence led to her involvement in both training and supervision in
the psychotherapeutic model of Self-Psychology.
Jenny has a great love
of and facility for the English language. She is a also a lover of people
and an experienced psychotherapist. These twin passions were drawn together
in her work as Editor of Forum. Every publication bears witness to Jenny's
ability to honour the individual author's work while shaping it in a
way that ensures and enhances its accessibility to the reader.
Jenny's unique capacity
to enjoy and engage with people occurs at many different levels. It
might be expressed in a shared meal in her immediate neighbourhood or
in her involvement in a local community project or in giving generous
editing assistance. She is warm and gracious in every circumstance and
courageous in adversity.
Both in her life and work
Jenny consistently demonstrates her faith in the human capacity to enter
fully into life and to trust that this will enrich and heal the individual,
the community, and ultimately, the world.
Mary
Jerram
is honoured by her colleagues for her many years of dedication to the
practice of psychotherapy and for her contribution to the development
of psychotherapy in the Nelson /Marlborough region.
Mary initially trained
in music and then studied philosophy, languages and education. She read
widely in the psychoanalytic literature and had the experience of 3yrs
of formal Freudian analysis, but her starting point as a psychotherapist
was through an intensive course in Music Therapy. She worked for a few
months as a music therapist at Braemar Hospital in Nelson in 1979 and
then took a job as a Counsellor at the newly established Family Health
Counselling Service. In 1981 she was appointed Manager of the service
and continued in that role until 1993. She is now in private practice
as a psychotherapist and supervisor.
Mary was one of the first
people in the Nelson /Marlborough region to join the New Zealand Association
of Psychotherapists. She helped to set up the Regional Branch and is
a founding member of the NZAP Regional Supervisors Group. Mary is particularly
valued as a supervisor. She is able to provide supervision across many
modalities, supports supervisees to find their own potential, and has
had a leading role in the region in supervising people into membership
of the Association.
As well as being a practitioner
and a supervisor Mary has contributed as a teacher. She has tutored
on Counselling courses and taught Family Therapy. She represents psychotherapists
on the Advisory Board for Applied Counselling at Nelson Marlborough
Institute of Technology.
Mary has impressive networking
skills that enable her to draw together psychotherapists, psychologists,
psychiatrists and counsellors for therapeutic discussions and co-operation.
She is a strong intellectual force in discussions of topics relevant
to psychotherapy and regularly presents papers at conferences and at
Branch meetings. Her influence extends into the community, where she
has had a role in establishing, training and supervising within voluntary
agencies for more than 20 years.
On the national level Mary
was a member of the original panel assessing counsellors to gain accreditation
for ACC. She has served as Honorary Secretary for NZAP, has served on
numerous assessment panels and marked many case studies. She is currently
on the National Supervision Committee.
Mary has a deep belief
in the benefits of psychotherapy and an absolute commitment to deepening
and refining its practice in line with expanding knowledge.
Peter
McGeorge
has been a member of the New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists
since the 1970s. He was an Executive member from 1982-89 and was President
in 1987-88. As an office bearer he was influential in moving the Association
towards a greater emphasis on professional standards and accountability.
He stood for professional competence in practice rather than formal
credentials as the basis of membership. NZAP had been pursuing the goal
of registration for psychotherapists, but this foundered in the political
climate of deregulation in the late 1980s. Peter and others were extremely
concerned about the potential for harm in the unethical practice of
some self-proclaimed ‘psychotherapists’, and embraced the task of developing
a Code of Ethics for NZAP. This was achieved, and was followed by the
establishment of the first Complaints Procedure.
For some years Peter ran
training workshops in Gestalt Therapy and in doing so not only inspired
psychotherapists and future psychotherapists with enthusiasm for this
modality but also introduced them to a way of working on their own therapeutic
needs. He modelled professional expertise combined with compassion and
respect for the personal and professional growth of the trainees.
Peter has had an important role in the New Zealand psychotherapeutic
community as a psychiatrist who believes in the value of psychotherapy.
From the beginning of his involvement with NZAP he challenged his fellow
members to focus on issues of mental health and illness and to explore
ways of helping severely troubled clients. As a member of the planning
committee for the Psychotherapy training course at the then Auckland
Institute of Technology, and the first Chairperson of the Advisory Committee
for the course, he insisted on the need for the course to include information
on working with the mentally ill. In more recent years, he has brought
a psychotherapeutic perspective to his work as a manager of Mental Health
Services in the public sector.
Peter’s passion and recognition of pain touches and inspires those who
know him. It leads him to put himself on the line in advocating for
justice, compassion and excellent mental health practice, sometimes
at personal cost. He is always willing to share his expertise and experience
and continues to be valued as a warm, enthusiastic and generous "elder"
of NZAP.
Ian
McDougall
was elected a Life Member of the New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists
in 1992, in recognition of his contribution to the advancement of psychotherapy
in New Zealand. The Association continues to honour, respect and value
that contribution.
Ian first became interested
in psychotherapy as a medical student in the 1950s. He qualified as
a psychiatrist in the 1960s and practised as a psychotherapist and supervisor
throughout his subsequent professional career. As a psychotherapeutically
oriented psychiatrist he had a beneficial influence on the way psychiatry
was practised in Wellington, which was particularly evident through
his role in teaching and supervising psychiatric registrars.
In 1972 Ian joined the
New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists. At the time there was a
lot of debate about future directions for the Association. Ian soon
became involved in Association affairs. He served on the Council from
1976 until 1989, and chaired the Applications Committee from 1982 to
1985. During his time on Council there were very significant developments
in making the Association both more truly inclusive and more accountable.
In 1978 Ilse Macaskill, Don Fergus and Ian did some early work on defining
the central role of supervision in training as a psychotherapist, and
later Ian and Don conducted a series of workshops on the process of
supervision. He was one of those who spearheaded the work of defining
the knowledge base for Members of the Association, and developed a ‘user
friendly’ description of psychotherapy.
Ian had a particular interest
in transactional analysis. In the 1970s he trained in this modality
with Bob and Mary Goulding in California, and on his return to Wellington
he set to work to gain his qualifications as a TA therapist, teacher
and supervisor. For a decade or more he ran a TA training group, and
he set up assessment procedures for TA accreditation in New Zealand.
This was a pioneering venture with far reaching effects, as his trainees
went on to establish training programmes elsewhere in the country. Ian
is widely regarded as the ‘grand father’ of transactional analysis in
New Zealand.
Ian’s practice and teaching
of psychotherapy was not however confined to classical transactional
analysis theory. He incorporated aspects of body work, psychodynamic,
systems and developmental theory in his work and was able to help other
psychotherapists, via teaching, supervising and modelling, to bring
about integration of ways of working suited to their personalities and
the needs of their clients. His positive belief in the client’s own
restorative, developmental and creative potential was inspiring, and
his awareness of the psychotherapist’s responsibility to attend to their
own personal preparation was sobering. Above all he understood and taught
that techniques don’t ‘cure’, relationships do, and that love is the
vital ingredient.
Evan Sherrard
was awarded Life Membership of the New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists
in 1992 for outstanding services to psychotherapy. His influence is
evident in the Association, his contribution to training in a range
of settings, the practice of his trainees and supervisees, and the lives
of people who have benefited from his skill and compassion.
Evan trained primarily
in Client Centered Rogerian Pastoral Counselling in Houston, Texas during
the 1960s. In the 1970s he qualified in Transactional Analysis and in
the 1980s in Psychodrama. He has been a member of NZAP since February
1976, and from 1977 as the first Northern Regional Convenor was active
in maintaining the branch at a time when ethical concerns and conflicts
had left many with low energy for NZAP. Evan served on the NZAP Council
during the 1980s, was Chair of Admissions in the early 1980s, and with
Peter McGeorge, Joan Chappel, Bruce Hucker and others was involved in
writing the first NZAP Code of Ethics and Disciplinary Procedure. In
1986 while Evan was Chair of Admissions the Association made a significant
change to the Admissions procedure. Evan used the International Transactional
Analysis assessment procedure as a starting point for designing a New
Zealand model for the assessment of interpersonal psychotherapeutic
competency, and the current assessment processes are a refinement of
those established by Evan and his Committee.
During his time on Council
the Association experienced major challenges from people purporting
to practise psychotherapy, whose practice and ethics were a cause of
much concern to senior NZAP members. Evan spearheaded a strong ethical
stance by the Association, involving among other things responding to
a complaint against the Association to the Human Rights Commission.
This process was costly to him in time and energy. It led to increased
clarity within the Association about professional standards and the
ongoing monitoring of these, as well as constitutional changes to reduce
the financial vulnerability of the Association and its members to such
charges.
Training of psychotherapists
has been a major focus for Evan. In collaboration with Joan Dallaway
he developed the experientially based training model of Clinical Pastoral
Education for use at Presbyterian Support (Northern) Human Development
Team. Then in 1986 he wrote and developed the first Tertiary Psychotherapy
training course at Auckland Technical Institute (now Auckland University
of Technology) with Joan Dallaway, Peter McGeorge and John Harre. The
course was approved by Basil James, Director of Mental Health, on behalf
of the Ministry. This was ground breaking in New Zealand and has become
the basis of training in other Tertiary education centres in New Zealand.
A value held strongly by
Evan has been to see work to be done and do it, keeping himself in the
background, with no interest in any personal kudos. Yet for many it
is the man rather than the deeds that is foreground. In his life time
of work for humankind, as pastoral counsellor, chaplain, minister of
the Presbyterian Church, educator, and psychotherapist, perhaps Evan's
greatest gift is his person, his warmth and integrity, humility, passion,
humour and love.
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