The Christchurch Institute for Training in Psychodrama Staff

Christchurch

Training Staff

Paul Baakman (Director) has a background in Mental Health Nursing and Residential Social Work. He is a Psychotherapist and Psychodramatist who works in private practice. He is a Trainer Educator Practitioner (TEP).

Clare Elizabeth is a Psychodramatist, Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist, who works in private practice. She is a founding member of the CITP. She conducts workshops on spirituality using the psychodrama method.

Sara Crane is a Psychodramatist, a TEP in training and is a psychotherapist with a special interest in children and families and has a long-standing involvement with Playback Theatre.

Visiting Trainers

Vivienne Thomson is a Sociodramatist and TEP. She is on the staff of the Auckland Training Centre for Psychodrama and is currently a member of the Board of Examiners. Her professional identity is as a consultant in organisation development where she works sociodramatically with groups.

Don Reekie is a Trainer Educator Practitioner (TEP), a Psychodramatist and Role Trainer. He works with team relationships in organisations as well as with individual development and health. He is currently a trainer in Christchurch and Queensland.

Valerie and Rex Hunton: Valerie Hunton is a well known artist while Rex is a physician. Both are experienced psychotherapists and counsellors. In 1981, they were the first New Zealanders to qualify as certificated psychodramatists. Since then they have practised and taught this method as well as applying it to their own relationship and lives while living in NZ and Pacific Island countries.

Walter is a Psychotherapist, Couple Therapist, and Supervisor in private practice in Christchurch.  He is a Psychodramatist and a TEP in Training.

Administrator

Lynne Havenaar

Dunedin

Training in Action Dunedin Staff

CITP Board of Trustees

Charlotte Daellenbach (Chair), Grant Walker, Gwen Reekie, Annette Currie and Simon Gurnsey (Secretary/Treasurer).