CBT Training Program - Meet our trainers

Meet our Trainers

James Bennett-Levy, A/Prof at NRUDRH, was formerly consultant clinical psychologist at Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre. He is lead editor of the Oxford Guide to Behavioural Experiments in Cognitive Therapy, and a leading writer about CBT training and interpersonal skills in CBT. He is a highly regarded trainer who has led over 300 CBT workshops in 14 countries.

For a listing of James' publications, including some recent publications which are downloadable, click here. For a list of James' 2008 workshops, click here

While in the UK in 2005, James was featured in a Channel 5 documentary called Extreme Phobias. He found himself working with a professional chef who had had a phobia of baked beans for 40 years (the only time James has encountered this particular problem). Here is an excerpt from the second and final session.

Helen Perry, Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Department of Public Health, University of Sydney, is a Clinical Psychologist who has trained under some world renowned experts including Beck, Padesky, Young and Blackburn. She has a particular interest in working with clients with complex/comorbid mood and anxiety disorders.  Currently she specialises in working with clients with post-trauma difficulties.  Helen has a passion and commitment for delivering high quality training and supervision for mental health professionals. She was instrumental in establishing the first CBT Diploma in the Southern Hemisphere at Massey University, NZ.

Follow the link here (pdf) to a recent journal article co-authored by Helen. - Bennett-Levy, J., & Perry, H. (2009) The promise of online cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) training for rural and remote mental health professionals. Australasian Psychiatry, 17, S121-S124.

We feature here part of a training tape by Helen working with a very hopeless suicidal “client” (role played by an actor). In this excerpt they are looking at the advantages and disadvantages of living and dying, a subtle CBT technique that needs to be undertaken carefully and sensitively.

Mal Huxter is a clinical psychologist who has been a Buddhist meditation practitioner for over 30 years. He conducted his first mindfulness program for community health clients in 1991. He produces CDs, writes mindfulness-based workbooks, and leads workshops and retreats across Australia.

You can read a recent chapter (pdf) by Mal entitled Mindfulness as Therapy from a Buddhist Perspective in Innovations and Advances in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (ed. D. Einstein, Australian Academic Press, 2007)

Mal has produced a large range of guided meditations on CDs. You can find some of Mal’s guided meditations available for download at www.malhuxter.com/