Sharon Bedard has a varied history of study which she brought into focus while she trained at The Centre for Training in Psychotherapy. Her history of study includes a B.A. in English Literature and Physical and Health Education and a Bachelor of Education both from York University, attendance in the program for Humanities and Psychoanalytic Thought; which offered an interdisciplinary perspective on the human psyche at the University of Toronto and training in design and photography at the Ontario College of Art. She taught in an alternative high school for seventeen years. She now focuses on her psychotherapy practice and combines this with an interest in photography, writing and the expressive arts; which bring together a diverse history of study and a love of learning and teaching. She lives in Toronto with her partner.
Gayle Burns studied at the University of Toronto and The Centre for Training in Psychotherapy. She has a broad background as a tenured academic, researcher, community health consultant and practitioner. Her experience encompasses interpersonal relations, lifespan development issues, bioethics, addictions, and women’s health. Currently, her Toronto practice includes individual and group psychotherapy.
Adam Crabtree studied at St. John’s University in Minnesota, at the University of Toronto, with Medicina Alternativa, and with Open International University, Colombo, Sri Lanka. He has been in private psychotherapy practice for more than twenty-five years. His professional and academic specialities include dissociative disorders and dissociative phenomena, the history of hypnotism and the history of psychotherapy. His study of multiple personality and the possession syndrome, Multiple Man, appeared in l985 (republished by Somerville House Books in 1997). Since then he has published an annotated bibliography titled Animal Magnetism, Early Hypnotism, and Psychical Research (Kraus, 1988), journal articles on dissociation and book chapters on the history of hypnotism and psychotherapy. His most recent books are From Mesmer to Freud (Yale University Press, 1993) an examination of the evolution of the alternate consciousness paradigm in psychotherapy, and Trance Zero (Somerville House Books, 1997), on trance in everyday life.
Judy Dales studied at the University of Western Ontario, at the University of Windsor and with the Medicina Alternativa Institute, affiliated with the Open International University at Colombo, Sri Lanka. She is a graduate of the Advanced Training Programme in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society where she is a guest member. She has been in private practice as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist for more than twenty-five years. She is a member of the Canadian Group Psychotherapy Association and teaches the Theory and Practice of Psychoanalytic Group Psychotherapy through her private practice. She lives in Toronto with her husband and two children.
Peter Dales studied at the University of Toronto and taught high school for seven years. Since 1972 he has practiced psychotherapy full-time, with a special interest in group therapy.
Jackie Herner studied at the University of Manitoba, where she graduated with a Bachelo of Arts degree in English Literature and Sociology. She went on to attain her Certificate in Education from the Faculty of Education, University of Manitoba. Jackie specialized in Early Childhood Education and worked for many years with children aged eighteen months to nine years. She then trained as a psychotherapist at the Centre for Training in Psychotherapy. She is currently completing her training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, a body-oriented therapy. Jackie has worked with adults in private practice since 1991 and is the Registrar at CTP
Cathleen Hoskins studied at Bryn Mawr College, University College London, Yale University and The Centre for Training in Psychotherapy. Her teaching and practice are enriched by studies in the existential dimensions of psychotherapy, hermeneutic phenomenology and literature. She is also part of a group of colleagues engaged in an exploration of authentic movement and its implications for psychotherapy. Married and a mother, she has been in private practice since 1991 and has a special interest in the intergenerational transmission of trauma.
Ken Ludlow studied at Wilfrid Laurier University, the University of Toronto and the Centre for Training in Psychotherapy. He is a former college teacher who has had a private psychotherapy practice since 1986.He has been a member of the CTP faculty since 1993.
Sharon MacIsaac-McKenna studied at the University of Saskatchewan and St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto. Her doctoral dissertation was published as Freud and Original Sin (Paulist Press, 1974). Since 1971 she has taught psychology and psychology of religion in universities and community colleges, has become a mother, and has trained and practiced as a psychotherapist. At present, she practices and teaches in Toronto and Caledon East.
Philip McKenna was born in Melbourne, Australia, and studied at the Australian National University (BA), the Dominican House of Studies (STL), and the University of Toronto (PhD). He has worked as a priest, as a lecturer in philosophy and interdisciplinary studies, and since 1970, as a psychotherapist and teacher.
Joel Whitton is a psychiatrist in private practice in Toronto. He holds his degrees from the University of Toronto. He is interested in the neurophysiology of brain function, the theology of human experience, and anomalous perception. He has published extensively in neurophysiology. His book Life Between Life (Doubleday) appeared in 1986.
Bev Witton graduated from the University of Toronto (Physical and Occupational Therapy) in 1970 and from the Centre for Training in Psychotherapy in 1995. She is in private practice in Toronto with a focus on individual and group work. Her therapeutic approach is influenced by the traditions of mother-infant observation, body psychotherapy and traumatology and reflects her deep belief in the somatic underpinnings of psychological life.
Anna Binswanger-Healy moved in 1984 from Switzerland to Toronto. She graduated in special education and worked for twelve years at the University Clinic for Child Psychiatry in Zurich. She has a diploma in existential analysis (Daseinsanalytishes Institute für Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik, Zurich) and has experience and training in biodynamic bodypsychotherapy (Boyesen Centre, London, England), psychodrama and therapy with children, adults, couples, families and groups. In the last five years she has deepened her studies in developmental and authentic movement and is teaching in both areas. She is the mother of two adult daughters.
James Healy studied at Yale University (where he was later chaplain from 1960 to 1967), at Catholic University of America, and at St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto. He began a psychotherapy practice in 1969. After training with Alexander Lowen and John Pierrakos, he broadened his Freudian approach to include Reichian bodywork. From 1979 to 1981, he pursued further training in Reichian work at the Boyesen Centre in London, England. From 1982 through 1984, he studied at the Jung Institute in Switzerland. He has conducted ongoing training groups in Canada, England, Germany, Austria and Switzerland.