Dr Jan Resnick
Dr Jan Resnick
Senior Psychotherapist, Couples Counsellor, Supervisor and Author
Jan grew up in New York, then did his professional training in London where he lived and worked for over 16 years. He completed two psychotherapy trainings there, one with The Guild of Psychotherapists and one with The Philadelphia Association. He worked with some leading figures in the field including R.D. Laing, John Heaton, Christopher Bollas and Rosemary Gordon.
Jan founded two mental health charities in England, one in Oxford and one in London. He moved to Australia in 1990 and founded two further charities in Perth, one called Australia Dreaming, a children’s charity, and one called The Churchill Clinic, a nationally accredited, registered training organisation which he ran for 18 years until 2008.
Jan was the Founding President of the Psychotherapists & Counsellors Association (Inc.) of Western Australia and received and Outstanding Achievement award for his contributions over 10 years there. He also contributed to the founding of the national professional association PACFA – the Psychotherapists and Counsellors Federation of Australia where he served on the training standards and management committees. He served on the Editorial Advisory Board of the national journal Psychotherapy in Australia where he penned a regular column for twenty years. Jan supervised the legal and counselling staff of knowmore, a firm that advised clients of the Royal Commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse.
He is an Advisory Board member of Blue Knot Foundation (formerly ASCA, Adult Survivors of Child Abuse) and an Advisory Board member of both the Virtual Medical Centre and Virtual Psychiatry Centre, an online resource for doctors and the public. He has been supervising Developmental Paediatricians at the State Child Development Centre for over 8 years and has taught and been an accredited supervisor of psychiatry registrars (in psychotherapy) for the Royal Australian New Zealand College of Psychiatrists. He has run supervision groups for over 30 years for mental health professionals and also for consultant psychiatrists over 14 years.
Lastly, Jan has over 100 publishing credits including two published books
1) How Two Love, Making your relationship work and last, published by Amygdala Publishing (2016) and 2) Meaning-Fullness, Developmental Psychotherapy and the Pursuit of Mental Health published by Phoenix Publishing House (2023).
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