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​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
Christina Burki - Gestalt Psychotherapist
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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

Location

45 Weymouth Blvd Quinns Rocks WA 6030, Australia

Contact Me:

Phone: +61 458 158 822
Email: [email protected]
Like footprints in the sand washed away with the tide, life’s ups and downs can erode precious contact with our inner self – and we may struggle to move forward. Walk with me, and together we will retrace your steps to rediscover the real you.

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PACFA: Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia 2015 - 2022
GANZ: Gestalt Australia and New Zealand 2011 - 2022


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