Education, Training and Memberships

• Specialised Training in Gestalt Counselling/Psychotherapy (Diploma)
• Kindergarten/Pre Primary Teacher Training Institute (University of Applied Sciences Arnhem)
• Bernarda Kindergarten/Pre Primary Training Institute (University of Applied Sciences)
• Professional Development Course on Theme-Centred Interaction (TCI)
• Qualification in Dog-Assisted Therapy (Natural Dogman Ship – Switzerland)
• Introduction of Social Trauma Therapy by Dr Anngwyn St Just, internationally recognised Traumatologist
• Working with Traumatised Children: Richard Rose, Social worker and Director of the Mary Walsh Institute in England
• Seminar with Dr Dan Siegel, a Clinical Professor of the UCLA School of Medicine: Beyond Survival
• School of Population Health Unit of UWA/Aboriginal health, Marion Kickett, Assistant Professor (Unit of accredited post graduate course)
• ASIST: Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training
• Working with Adolescents and Young people: Therapy as a Learning Laboratory for Life with Andrew Fuller
• The Body Remembers with Babet Rothschild, a world renowned Trauma Therapist – Australian Childhood Foundation
• Full member of the Swiss Association for Gestalt Therapy and Integrative Therapy
• ​Christina Burki PACFA Registered Clinical
• Clinical Member of Gestalt Australia and New Zealand (GANZ) 
• Mindfulness Diploma of the Centre of Excellence and the International Association of NLP and Coaching
• ​​Certified NLP Practitioner, trained by the Tad James Company.

My Working Life

“Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.”
― David Richo

• 10 years as a Kindergarten/Pre Primary Teacher
• 3 years Vice–President of the Kindergarten/Pre Primary Commission
• 2 year as a Youth Worker in the Church
  
• 2 years Member of the Child and Clinic Support Group Committee
• 2 years as a Volunteer Refugee Support Worker
• 2004-2008 established Gestalt Psychotherapy/Counselling practice (Switzerland)
• 3 years counselling at Church Network for People in Need: Working with the blind, the elderly and their carers
• 3 years advising the Association for the Promotion of Professional Counselling for Foetal & Perinatal Death
• 2009 established Gestalt Psychotherapy practice (WA)
• 2010 volunteer as Psychotherapist and Fundraiser for YKPA orphanage Bali
• 2012 co-facilitating volunteer in the Making Sense of Motherhood program of Women’s Healthworks  (mother-baby group)

In-  working with traumatised patients Christina used creative methods which really helped the patients find new ways of getting through trauma-distorted structures in themselves, finding new self-support and reorganizing their lives constructively. I have appreciated and valued Christina’s original and existential way in applying Gestalt therapy methods and adequately adopting them to the various patient’s structures and conditions……”Katharina Martin, Dip Psych and Co-founder of the IGW Gestalt Institute

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