Ruth Speziale

Skilled Counsellor and Supervisor with extensive experience working with complex trauma and a variety of presenting issues. Demonstrated success in Counsellor Education and cultivating collaborative relationships, leading to effective therapeutic outcomes. Committed to ongoing professional development aimed at enhancing clinical practices and promoting client well-being.

2024 - Prevention of DFV in Churches and community - Conference, MATE Cultural Change Train the Trainer, The Self who Supervises, Recognising & Responding to Dissociation, Aggression & Autism, Provide First Aid

2023 - Betrayals & Wounded Couples, Neurodiverse Couples in Therapy, Gottman's Sound Relationship House

2022 - International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD) Conference, Managing ADHD in School, Safe Ministry Essentials, Perspectives on Domestic Abuse, Processing Trauma – Play of Minds in Supervision

2021 - Complex Trauma, Clinical Applications of Polyvagal Theory, Clean Language in Supervision, Shame and Self-Loathing in the Treatment of Trauma

2020 - Working with Shame, Provide First Aid, Mindsight, Attachment and Clinical Integration, Steps toward Healing Traumatic Attachment and Borderline Personality

2019 - Invitation to bring Body & Self to Supervision, EMDR in Action; Master Class, Making Contact with Psychosis

2018 - Supervision: Impact of Values & Modality, Complex Trauma & Shame, Working with Somatic Components, Complex Trauma in the Christian Context

2017 - Mindsight, Attachment and Clinical Integration, Recognising & Working with Personality Disorders, Theological Integration, Attachment, Caregiving, Sexuality & Power: Complex Systems, Supervision: Working with diversity

2016 - High & Conflict Avoidant Couples with Dev. Model, Ethics, The Body Remembers: Trauma Recovery, Conference: Transformation Through Relationship

2015 - Professional and Ethical Issues in Counsellor Education, Counselling Clients with Complicated Grief, Love & Fear in Supervision

2014 - Professional and Ethical Issues in Counsellor Education, Men in Therapy, Shame & Power in Supervision, Personality Disorders, Mindfulness for the Anxious Client

2013 - Delivering training in Christian Counselling, AVERT Family Violence, Professional Issues, ACT, Mindfulness & ACT, Changes in Family Law

2012 - Becoming an Effective Supervisor - Course, Resilience, Infidelity

2011 - Supervision in the Training Context, Multiple Aspects of Couple & Family Counselling, The Mysterious Distance Between a Man & a Woman, Adult Mental Health First Aid, World Dreaming Congress, Training & Assessment Upgrade Cert IV TAE, Mental Health First Aid

2010 - Transforming Power of Emotion w Individuals, Transforming Power of Emotion w Couples, Prepare - Enrich, Dialectic Behaviour Therapy, Dealing with Difficult Clients, Sexual Intimacy in Relationships, Simple Energy Techniques, Stuckness, Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (Management) Training, Identify & Respond to Children & YP at Risk, First Aid - Appy First Aid, Effective Interactions w DV Clients

2009 - Case Note Taking, Bowen Family Systems Theory, Counselling Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, Sexual Abuse in the Church, Theology of Forgiveness, Creativity Self Care, Relationships touched by Addictions, Anxiety, Keep Them Safe

2008 - Borderline Personality, Creativity & Spirituality, PACFA Council, High Conflict Couples & Impact on Children, Couple Therapy Course – 18hrs, Supervision, Domestic Violence in context of Rel. Co.

2007 - APC Intro to Sandtray Therapy, Gestalt couples, Relationships Symposium, PACFA Council, Training Day on Shame, Intro to Deliberate Self-Injury, PACFA Council AGM, Men in Relationships, Training Day on Resources, Intro to EFT and EMDR

2006 - APC Ethics in Counselling, Interrelate Art of Relationship Counselling Course - 75 hours, PACFA Council, SACS Training Day, APC, Legal Issues with Families in Pain, APC Gestalt Teenagers, SACS Impact conference, SACS Supervision Training

2005 - Resilience and Risks, Counselling and Culture, Conversational Model, Emotions Focussed Therapy, Family Wellness Facilitator Training

2004 - Internal Boundaries, EFT Couple Counselling, Well-being of Therapist, PACFA conference Pragmatics of Counselling, Counsellor & the Law

2003 - Men, Conversations in the Room

2002 - Conversations in the Room

I enjoy immersing myself in nature, engaging in gardening, walking, swimming, and cycling. Occasionally, I indulge in painting and find joy in reading light hearted fiction while sipping a cup of tea.