Graham has been providing training in Schema Therapy since 1993 and EMDR since 1996. In 2018 Therapist Training created the first accredited online EMDR training in the world, well before COVID-19 came along.

He grew up in a small New Zealand country town and discovered psychology at 17.  That began a lifelong passion for learning about and doing psychotherapy.  He graduated from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand in 1972, with a Masters degree in Clinical Psychology.  He worked as a Clinical Psychologist in addiction treatment programs and a child and adolescent clinic before he and Min moved to Perth in 1979.   He taught social and preventive medicine at the University of Western Australia Medical School, before moving to full-time private practice in 1983. He was Director of Training for the WA branch of the Australian Society of Hypnosis in the1980s. He learnt EMDR and Schema Therapy in 1989, and assisted Francine Shapiro in the first Australian EMDR trainings in 1992.  In 1996 he was granted Accredited Trainer status with the EMDR International Association as one of the first group of trainers outside Shapiro’s training organisation. He started teaching Schema Therapy in 1993 and was grandfathered as an accredited Schema Therapy Trainer in 2008, when the International Society of Schema Therapy was formed. His training activities were an offshoot of his private practice for many years. Therapist Training was registered as a business in 2008.  He retired from full time clinical practice in 2016, and now focuses solely on training and supervising therapists.  His other hobbies are building a sports car and bushwalking / hiking / tramping (depending on which country you come from).

Min and Graham met at the child and adolescent clinic they both worked at.  Min is an Occupational Therapist, and together they ran a hiking group for disadvantage teenagers.  She worked for many years for Australia Post, in their injury rehab team.  She manages the administrative side of Therapist Training. 

Claire Kullack is co-founder of the Pax Centre, a Credentialed Mental Health Nurse, Psychological Trauma Therapist, and an Accredited EMDR Trainer and Consultant with over 25-years’ experience working with a variety of individuals with a range of mental health issues and concerns.

Since 2009, after completing the introductory training, Claire has fully embraced EMDR and all it has to offer. She has been an EMDRAA Consultant since 2017, and an EMDRAA Accredited Trainer since 2019.

She has worked alongside Graham for many years -first he was her mentor, and now a valued colleague-and they have spent much time modifying and developing the EMDR training that Therapist Training offers today.

In addition to Claire’s training role, Claire co-founded the Pax Centre, an outpatient clinic, located in WA. Pax Centre specialises in the prevention, treatment and recovery from psychological trauma and the promotion of mental fitness and well-being through the delivery of evidence-based and innovative therapies and treatments.

Claire has been on the EMDRAA Board as Secretary and Membership Officer, and a member of EMDRAA Accreditation and Standards Committee. She has travelled to and worked with the developers and lead clinicians of PSYTREC Netherlands for many years and developed an intensive EMDR program for Pax Centre. She has conducted research in the field of psychological trauma and has several academic publications focussing on EMDR and Substance Use, EMDR and co-morbidities, neurobiological changes that occur pre and post trauma-focussed psychological therapies and comparing EMDR and Exposure Therapy.

As well as completing a Bachelor of Science Nursing degree at Curtin University of Technology in 1996 and a Postgraduate Diploma in Mental Health Nursing at RMIT in 2015, she has completed Harvard Medical School Global Mental Health: Trauma and Recovery Certificate. In addition to EMDR she is trained in: Prolonged Exposure Therapy, Imagery Rescripting, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Thought Field Therapy, Schema Therapy, Mindfulness, Dialectal Behaviour Therapy, Psychedelic Assisted Therapy, Structural Dissociation, and Internal Family System informed practice.

She is dedicated to making a positive difference to the lives of clients by providing informative, engaging and experiential training for therapists.

Karen Reid is a Clinical Psychologist based in Queensland, Australia. She originally trained as a teacher and specialist in neurodiversity and specific learning difficulties before completing a Master’s degree in Educational Psychology and later a Master’s in Clinical Psychology at the University of Southern Queensland. Over the years, she has worked in educational, multidisciplinary, and private practice settings, and her focus for the past decade has been helping adults recover from trauma, adversity, and attachment injuries.

Her therapeutic approach integrates EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Schema Therapy within a trauma-informed and strengths-based framework. Karen began using IFS in her clinical work in 2019 and is now a Certified IFS Therapist and Approved IFS Consultant. She is also an EMDR Consultant for EMDRAA and EMDRIA, and an EMDR Trainer for EMDRAA, providing supervision, consultation, and training to therapists seeking EMDR or IFS accreditation.

Alongside her clinical practice, Karen facilitates IFS Introductory Trainings and Group EMDR/IFS Consultation Programs through Therapist Training. Her sessions emphasise curiosity, collaboration, and therapist self-awareness, creating safe, reflective learning environments for clinicians to deepen their confidence and expand their therapeutic repertoire. She has a particular interest in the integration of EMDR and IFS, working with protective systems in trauma, and fostering the use of Self-energy in clinical practice.