"Humankind is
a being in search
of meaning"
— Plato
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All staff are employed part-time in MIECAT, but also work in private practice, in government and non-government organisations, in the areas of performance, art making, counselling, arts therapy, education and consulting.
Dr Jan Allen, M.Ed., Ph.D is currently employed half-time in the administration of MIECAT and also works as a consultant to many educational institutions. Her professional interests include phenomenological research; the application of the MIECAT form of inquiry to schools' curriculum; Art and intersubjectivity. Jan is the Deputy Director of MIECAT.
Dr Maggie Broom, Ph.D is currently a part-time researcher at La Trobe University and a sessional teacher with MIECAT. Her professional interests include adult learning, narrative & phenomenological inquiry and existential approaches to therapy.
Dr Don Asker, M.A., Ph.D is an independent artist with interests in performance installations, film/video and improvisation. He lectures in dance and multi-modal performance at the Victorian College of the Arts where he also co-ordinates post graduate studies in the School of Dance.
Ms Mary Ellen Davis, M.A.Ps.S.
Ms Patricia Fenner, Dip. Vis. Arts, Dip.Ed., M.A. C.A.T. currently works as Senior Program Manager with the Richmond Fellowship of Victoria. She is a registered art therapist and has worked in the public mental health system in Victoria for more than 10 years. Trish studied art therapy in Melbourne & Berlin and has worked with a variety of client populations. Initially a Victorian secondary schools art teacher she has also worked as a freelance community artist in Europe and Australia.
Mr Tony Geeves, Fil. Cand. (B.A.), Dip.Ed., M.A. is a dancer with a career career spanning 25 years in international classical and contemporary fields. In 1998 Tony received an Australian national award for "Services to Dance" which cited his "unique and pioneering work with the Safe Dance project". He runs a Pilates clinic, freelances internationally as a lecturer in dance and also supervises and facilitates MA coursework in Brisbane for MIECAT.
Ms Beatrice Heppell coordinates, focuses and generally calms our staff in Melbourne with secretarial skills most of us find nothing short of 'phenomenological!' She is the voice you will generally hear should you contact our Melbourne office by phone.
Ms Jenny Hill, M.Ed., M.A.Ps.S. works as a therapist specialising in work with children, and is a sessional teaching staff member of MIECAT. Her professional interests include creative arts in counselling and working with children, play therapy.
Ms Yvonne Hines looks after the accounts of MIECAT, ensuring we pay our bills on time.
Mr Kevin Jeynes, B.Ac., D.C., Grad. Dip. MIECAT practices Health Care and Counselling in Brisbane. He has worked extensively with Body Oriented Psychotherapy, trained in Dance Movement Therapy and Experiential Arts Therapy and has facilitated workshops in these areas.
Ms Juliette Kalifa, M.A. MIECAT works as a counsellor in private practice and sessionally at the Sunshine Coast Cancer Help Centre "Bloomhill." She also runs Creative Arts and Story Making programs for children. Her professional interests include play therapy, the role of emotions in counselling and multi-modal art making in community projects.
Dr Warren Lett, Ph.D (Cal), M.A.Ps.S. works as a counsellor in private practice, as a consultant to organisations and as the Director of MIECAT. His professional interests include the way prereflective-reflective and variemodal experiencing leads to an understanding of the meanings of lived experience. He is currently developing an inquiry into the emotional patterns that inform therapeutic work with relationships and ways of investigating subjectivity.
Ms Stella Mountjouris, M.A., M.A.Ps.S. is a registered psychologist currently in private practice and teaching sessionally with MIECAT. Her professional interests include art making and multi-modal representation of experiencing, particularly depression and anxiety.
Ms Sue Pratt, B.Ed. (Cslg), M.A. MIECAT, M.A.Ps.S.
Ms Nicole Rotaru, M.A. MIECAT
Dr Jean Rumbold, M.A., Ed.D, M.A.Ps.S. currently teaches part time at La Trobe University in the Faculty of Health Sciences, in private practice and is a sessional teacher with MIECAT. Her professional interests include consultancy in teambuilding and leadership development as well as creative and therapeutic writing, family therapy and relationship counselling.
Ms Robin Syme, M.A. MIECAT (pending)