Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Australia offers intensive training courses for mental health professionals throughout Australia.
Working in conjunction with the Albert Ellis Institute and the Beck Institute in the USA, we are able to offer opportunities to train with international therapists of the highest calibre in the field. Australian therapists involved in training are experienced clinicians in their own rite. They add the dimension of their rich case experience to presentations and the training of participants.
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Australia places a strong emphasis on learning through doing. Small group supervision enables participants to practice their skills, receive individual feedback and observe therapy modelled by trainers.
Course presenters and trainers
Monica O’Kelly
B Sc (Hons), Dip Ed, MB Sc, Ph D, MAPS
Dr Monica O'Kelly is Director of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Australia and an honorary lecturer at Monash University. She is an Associate Fellow of the Albert Ellis Institute and a member of the Training and Policy Review Committee of the Albert Ellis Institute. She has also completed the Extra Mural Program at the Beck Institute and is a Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. She has written many journal articles and reported on her research at international and national conferences. She has had considerable experience teaching cognitive behaviour therapy and believes that to teach therapy well, the participants must be given the opportunity to practice and be given constructive feedback.
Top of Page
Dom DiMattia
BA M Ed, Ed D
Dr DiMattia is a Human Relations Consultant who has been Executive Director and Senior Staff Supervisor at the Albert Ellis Institute. He was previously Vice President of Human Resources for the Fireman Group in New York. He is Professor Emeritus of Counselling and Human Resources at the University of Bridgeport, and has written numerous journal articles and conducted hundreds of workshops and seminars as a corporate consultant and mental health trainer. A member of the American Psychological Association, he has presented papers, lectures, and workshops in Australia, the United States and Europe.
Top of Page
Ann Vernon
Ph D, LMHC
Ann Vernon is professor and coordinator of counselling at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Dr Vernon is the Vice President of the Albert Ellis Board of Trustees and the Director of the Midwest Centre for REBT. Dr Vernon has conducted workshops throughout the United States, Canada, and abroad on applications of REBT with children, adolescents, and parents and teachers. She has also written numerous books and chapters on this topic, including several emotional education curriculums, Thinking, Feeling, Behaving and the Passport Programs, as well as What Works When: A Handbook of Individual Counselling Techniques.
Dr Vernon is one of the world's experts on applications of cognitive behavioural principles to children and adolescents. Her workshops are very practical and interactive. Participants leave the workshops with lots of cognitive behavioural techniques that they can apply to the clients and students with whom they work.
Top of Page
Robert Dawson
BA (Hons), MA, Ph D, MAPS
Robert Dawson is a clinical and consulting psychologist in private practice in Brisbane. He has held a number of university teaching positions and also held clinical positions at the University of Melbourne, Royal Darwin Hospital and Larundel Psychiatric Hospital. Robert has trained over 800 health professionals in the skills of cognitive behaviour therapy in programs conducted throughout Australia and New Zealand. Robert is in private practice in Brisbane and Mackay and specializes in corporate consulting; cognitive behaviour therapy treatment programs; performance mentoring; individual and couple therapy; stress, fear and anxiety management; child and adolescent counselling; relationship counselling; depression and underachievement. He is a member of the Clinical College of the APS.
Leonor Lega PhD
Dr Lega is a Professor of Psychology at Saint Peter’s College in USA. She has presented workshops and lectures in the areas of sexuality, couples and women’s issues in Europe, North and South America and Australia. She is a Certified International Supervisor and Post-Doctoral Fellow of the Albert Ellis Institute in New York City.
She is the author of the digital biography "Albert Ellis: His Life and Work" (published by Insight Media in USA), and the author (with Albert Ellis) of the textbook "Teoriay Practica de la Terapia Racional Emotivo Conductual" (published by Siglo XXI in Spain and Mexico) currently used in several universities in Latin America and Spain, and a required reading in a large number of the training courses in several Spanish-speaking countries.
She has also published several book chapters and peer reviewed articles in the Cross-cultural applications of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy. She is an entertaining speaker and engaging teacher.
Raymond Chip Tafrate, PhD
Dr Tafrate is an internationally recognised expert on anger
Dr Tafrate is a Professor and the Chairperson of the Criminology and Criminal Justice Department at Central Connecticut State University where he teaches courses on anger and aggression management, correctional counseling, and research methods.
A licensed Psychologist in Connecticut and New York, Dr Tafrate frequently consults with State Criminal Justice agencies and trains practitioners in client engagement skills and the application of cognitive-behavioral interventions. Dr Tafrate also has over ten years experience providing client services in outpatient settings and has been involved in both state and federally funded research projects on offender treatment and programming.
His research on the nature and treatment of anger has been published in scientific journals, books for practitioners, and been presented at conferences throughout the United States and abroad. His most recent projects include - Anger Management: The Complete Treatment Guidebook for Practitioners (2002, Impact Publishers) the Anger Disorders Scale (2004, Multi-Health Systems) and Understanding Anger Disorders (2006, Oxford University Press).
Additional trainers include:
- Darren Cowan CNC, BH Sc, M Clin Prac
- Tele Triggs BA, MA (Clin Psych), MAPS
- Penny Brabham Ph D
- Leah Goldman M Ed Psych
- Paul Martin
- Bronwyn Tarrant
For further information on training courses, please contact the Narre Warren office.
Please note: A cancellation policy applies to all training courses.
Cancellations must be received in writing to Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Australia. Refunds are given (less 10%) for cancellations received by 5 pm a minimum of 10 days prior to the commencement of a course. Cancellations received AFTER this date, are ineligible for a refund. Registrations are transferable to another person upon notification.
TOP
:: Home
:: Therapists
:: Our Services
:: Training
:: Resources
:: Contact Us
:: Links
:: News ::
