Our Directors

Miriam and Livia have worked together since 1975 at Monash University. They opened the practice after 20 years of working together in a staff and student counselling unit.

Their particular interest at that time was the mind body connection – Miriam being a clinical psychologist and Livia a medical practitioner, and they worked on linking the two modalities to offer clients a broad perspective of mental and physical health care.

Miriam and Livia also realized they had a unique combination of skills which would be valuable for training doctors in the counseling field as many of the GP consultations involved psychological issues.

They initially wrote a distance course for postgraduate GPs that was run through Monash University Medicine Faculty of General Practice.

Some years later they decided to find a setting in which they could teach family therapy and work as practitioners in family therapy.