Contact me / psychotherapy background

One of Nietzsche's favorite phrases is amor fati (love your fate): in other words, create the fate that you can love. (Irvin Yalom, Staring at the Sun, p100)

Contact details:
I practice psychotherapy in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs. You can contact me regarding psychotherapy on 0422 975 179. Alternatively, you can email me on ron.dowd.therapy@gmail.com.

Practice:
I work with individuals and with couples.

Sometimes in couples therapy it's good to have a couple working as joint therapists. I also work this way, in conjunction with my wife Amanda Gruhn (Karima), who is also a qualified Gestalt psychotherapist.

Background:
I'm qualified in Gestalt psychotherapy and am a Member of GANZ (Gestalt Australia and New Zealand). I studied at two schools in Sydney, Sydney Gestalt Institute and Gestalt Practitioners Training Sydney.

I've practised visual art making for the past 16 years. I've also had an interest in Jungian psychology for more than 20 years, and have called upon this in my art practice. My first profession was in computing, and I still also work as a business analyst.

Recently I've become more interested in language and poetry, and have for the past five years returned to writing poetry. (I first started writing when I was young.) I'm also influenced in my psychotherapeutic work by the Conversational Model and by current writings on intersubjectivity.

I strongly subscribe to the dictum that in psychotherapy "it's the relationship that heals".

Qualifications:
Bachelor Engineering (Hons), Master Engineering, Bachelor Fine Arts,
MA (Hons) (thesis), Advanced Dip Gestalt Therapy (GPTS), Member GANZ