​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.
• Organised retreat with Dr Stephen Schoen in Perth: To throw your heart over the fence

My Working Life

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

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• 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)
• 2012 organised retreat & workshops in Australia with Dr Stephen Schoen: To throw your heart over the fence

Conferences

• 2012 - Elements of Change - context: connection: complexity, GANZ
• 2016 - Gestalt conference - Diversity/Difference/Dialogue, Canberra GANZ

Workshops

• Safeguarding yourself- Recognising and Responding to Vicarious Trauma, Blue Knot Foundation
• Working with Suicide& Suicidal Ideation; RiskAssessment, Abbotsford Hospital, PACFA
• Creative intervention for Counselling, Noa Gross, Art therapist, Psychotherapist
• Workshop on Mindfulness Breathwork Therapy (MBBT), Mindfulness Based breathwork Psychotherapy Institute.
• 30 days Love yourself Inner Bonding course, Margaret Paul ,Co-Founder Inner Child

Webinars

• ​Hope, fears & Enduring Relational Themes webinar, Dr Lynne Jacobs, Sydney
• Webinar Covid 19, Pacfa Qld Branch
• Grieving loss mindfully & with Self- compassion when the world as we know it has changed- Supporting our clients with mindful

approaches to loss and grief, PACFA

• Stepping into the Heart of Grief: working beyond models, Dr Greg Roberts, Centre for Existential Practice
• From Dreams to Metaphors: Engaging in the present moment with narratives.
• Centre of Existential Practice, Alan Leach
• Trauma informed Practice, PACFA
• Practical Ethics for Counsellors & Psychotherapists, PACFA
• Being the Change, you want to Be, Keith Tudor, Centre of existential Practice
• PACFA Ethics Committee Webinar
• Standing up to Stigma, PACFA
• Module 1 – Bessel van der Kolk on the Neurobiology and Treatment of Trauma and Attachment Psychoz Publications
• The Role of Covid in the weaning of humanity, Terry Ayling, Victor Frankl Institute Australia
• The therapeutic Challenge of Covid; Finding a new mojo, PACFA

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