APS Member Groups

National Convener

Dr Jonathan Tandos

Email: jtandos@hotmail.com

Jonathan Tandos completed a Bachelor of Behavioural Science with Honours in 2000 and PhD/Masters in Clinical Psychology in 2005 at La Trobe University. He has worked in child research in England, and as a clinician with adults, children, adolescents and families in Australia and the UK. Jonathan currently works as a registered psychologist in private practice in Melbourne, using mindfulness methods including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), psychoanalytic therapy, clinical hypnosis, transpersonal approaches and healing practices in his clinical work. He is interested in transpersonal research, bodywork and breathwork modalities, parapsychology, energetic healing, and different approaches to spiritual development and enlightenment. 

National  Secretary

Celina Chua-Huggins

Email: 2c4jon.tpig@gmail.com  

The first TPIG event Celina attended was like stepping into a ‘familiar old universe’. Celina studied for a B Sc (Melb) and a Grad Dip in App (Soc) Psych (Swinb). While under Dr Ian Campbell (Melb)’s supervision, she worked as counsellor/educator in a health and lifestyle organisation, moving on to training managers and managing trainers. Renata Schnall was Celina’s mentor in organizational psychology. Through the 90’s, she was apprentice then facilitator for a management training consultancy. She has since assisted her family in a multi-faceted business. Also, she supports people with their performance and personal objectives on motivation, communication, and relations. Celina notes that people value the ability to ‘face change, be at peace with turmoil, and seek breakthrough in personal understanding--yet, the path there is varied by their receptivity, circumstance and resources’. She is drawn to Transpersonal Psychology as it provides a legitimate framework of evidenced and integrated therapies, which converge on transcendence with mental, physical and spiritual realities. This complements her belief that ‘psychologically, we evolve to survive and survive by evolving’. To strengthen her vocation, Celina is learning through course and cause participation. 

Acting National Treasurer

Mary Ingamells 

Email: richard@developfullcircle.com

Mary is an experienced consultant, facilitator and leadership coach who has held executive positions in a number of leading organisations. She has significant experience as a senior consultant, and in executive roles in human resources and organisational development, supporting organisations in setting strategy, developing leaders and culture, building high performance teams and driving sustainable change. Mary has trained with experts in the field in Australia and internationally. She is an accredited Spiral Dynamics Integral consultant, and has undertaken programs at Integral Institute (US) where she has developed capability in applications of Ken Wilber’s AQAL model and Integral Leadership. Her work is based upon a range of disciplines including education, psychology and transpersonal psychology, analytic theory and learning organisation theory. 

Acting National  Newsletter Editor for Transpersonal Psychology

Nic Morrey 

Email: ewing_jason@hotmail.com 

Nic Morrey has spent most of his psychological career in men’s health and adolescent health within the community health service setting.  He also worked for a number of years piloting and running music therapy programs around Melbourne, is a touring musician, luthier (maker of stringed instruments), artist, long term meditator, writer, and father of two kids, ten guinea pigs, six rabbits, three chooks and a duck.  His research papers include the origins of altruism, the formation of the self after birth, the study of consciousness, neurophilosophy and integral meta-theory. His influences are William James, Abraham Maslow, Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, Brian Swimme, Ken Wilber, Genpo Roshi and Thich Nhat Hahn.

National Advertising and Social Manager

Rhonda Macdonald

email:  rhonda.macdonald@pacific.net.au

Rhonda is a registered psychologist, APS members, and member of the Counselling College of the APS.  Most of Rhonda's professional career has been spent as a counsellor, and she incorporates her interest in the transpersonal in her clinical work.  She has been involved in various committee and administrative duties with the TPIG for several years.

Acting National  Librarian and Resources Assistant

Piers Hardiman

email: psychiatrik@hotmail.com

Piers has completed a BA/BSc, PGDip(Psych) and MPsych(Counselling) at Monash University. He works in community health and with men in crisis. Piers has given previous talks for the TPIG on altered states of consciousness and spiritual development which were the foci of his Masters research. He presented at the Entheogenesis Australis conference in November 2007 alongside researchers of shamanism and psychoactive plant medicines. He has also previously conducted research on counsellor/therapist spiritual well-being, vicarious trauma, and burnout.

National Ordinary Committee Member  

Elizabeth Ryan

Email: elizabethryan@copotential.com.au

Elizabeth Ryan graduated with honours in 2002, having been a counsellor for several years. Before registering as a psychologist, she wrote a column on love and relationships, and prior to that managed a successful corporate sector business. She has completed a rigorous four-year spiritual transformation programme, as well as courses in counselling, mindfulness, bereavement, and relationship education. Respectful of all sacred ideologies, Elizabeth’s personal allegiance is to the Pathwork, a complex spiritual practice that embraces some Jungian and Freudian concepts, and involves the expansion of consciousness and compassion through psychotherapeutic means.

National Student Member Coordinator 

Fiona Mawson

Email: mawson4@@aapt.net  

Fiona completed her Honours in 2007 at Swinburne University of Technology. She has worked with marginalised and disadvantaged groups for over 20 years and has a background in community development. 

Currently, Fiona co-manages an Aboriginal Health Service in Melbourne’s outer east. She is committed to ‘closing the gap’ between black and white Australians, and to enhancing the social, emotional and physical health of Indigenous Australians. Fiona plans to commence her Masters program and in the meantime is completing a Transpersonal Counselling course at the Phoenix Institute. 

Victoria State Coordinator

Dr Jonathan Tandos

Email: jtandos@hotmail.com

Jonathan Tandos completed a Bachelor of Behavioural Science with Honours in 2000 and PhD/Masters in Clinical Psychology in 2005 at La Trobe University. He has worked in child research in England, and as a clinician with adults, children, adolescents and families in Australia and the UK. Jonathan currently works as a registered psychologist in private practice in Melbourne, using mindfulness methods including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), psychoanalytic therapy, clinical hypnosis, transpersonal approaches and healing practices in his clinical work. He is interested in transpersonal research, bodywork and breathwork modalities, parapsychology, energetic healing, and different approaches to spiritual development and enlightenment. 

Celina Chua-Huggins

Email: 2c4jon.tpig@gmail.com

The first TPIG event Celina attended was like stepping into a ‘familiar old universe’. Celina studied for a B Sc (Melb) and a Grad Dip in App (Soc) Psych (Swinb). While under Dr Ian Campbell (Melb)’s supervision, she worked as counselor/educator in a health and lifestyle organization, moving on to training managers and managing trainers. Renata Schnall was Celina’s mentor in organizational psychology. Through the 90’s, she was apprentice then facilitator for a management training consultancy. She has since assisted her family in a multi-faceted business. Also, she supports people with their performance and personal objectives on motivation, communication, and relations. Celina notes that people value the ability to ‘face change, be at peace with turmoil, and seek breakthrough in personal understanding--yet, the path there is varied by their receptivity, circumstance and resources’. She is drawn to Transpersonal Psychology as it provides a legitimate framework of evidenced and integrated therapies, which converge on transcendence with mental, physical and spiritual realities. This complements her belief that ‘psychologically, we evolve to survive and survive by evolving’. To strengthen her vocation, Celina is learning through course and cause participation. 

Acting Victoria State Treasurer 

Mary Ingamells 

Email: richard@developfullcircle.com

Mary is an experienced consultant, facilitator and leadership coach who has held executive positions in a number of leading organisations. She has significant experience as a senior consultant, and in executive roles in human resources and organisational development, supporting organisations in setting strategy, developing leaders and culture, building high performance teams and driving sustainable change. Mary has trained with experts in the field in Australia and internationally. She is an accredited Spiral Dynamics Integral consultant, and has undertaken programs at Integral Institute (US) where she has developed capability in applications of Ken Wilber’s AQAL model and Integral Leadership. Her work is based upon a range of disciplines including education, psychology and transpersonal psychology, analytic theory and learning organisation theory. 

Acting Victorian  Newsletter Editor 

Nic Morrey 

Email: ewing_jason@hotmail.com 

Nic Morrey has spent most of his psychological career in men’s health and adolescent health within the community health service setting.  He also worked for a number of years piloting and running music therapy programs around Melbourne, is a touring musician, luthier (maker of stringed instruments), artist, long term meditator, writer, and father of two kids, ten guinea pigs, six rabbits, three chooks and a duck.  His research papers include the origins of altruism, the formation of the self after birth, the study of consciousness, neurophilosophy and integral meta-theory. His influences are William James, Abraham Maslow, Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, Brian Swimme, Ken Wilber, Genpo Roshi and Thich Nhat Hahn.

Acting Victoria State Librarian and Resources Assistant  

Piers Hardiman

email: psychiatrik@hotmail.com

Piers has completed a BA/BSc, PGDip(Psych) and MPsych(Counselling) at Monash University. He works in community health and with men in crisis. Piers has given previous talks for the TPIG on altered states of consciousness and spiritual development which were the foci of his Masters research. He presented at the Entheogenesis Australis conference in November 2007 alongside researchers of shamanism and psychoactive plant medicines. He has also previously conducted research on counsellor/therapist spiritual well-being, vicarious trauma, and burnout.

Victoria State Advertising and Social Manager

Rhonda Macdonald

email:  rhonda.macdonald@pacific.net.au

Rhonda is a registered psychologist, APS members, and member of the Counselling College of the APS.  Most of Rhonda's professional career has been spent as a counsellor, and she incorporates her interest in the transpersonal in her clinical work.  She has been involved in various committee and administrative duties with the TPIG for several years.

Victoria State  Committee Member

Elizabeth Ryan

Email: elizabethryan@copotential.com.au

Elizabeth Ryan graduated with honours in 2002, having been a counsellor for several years. Before registering as a psychologist, she wrote a column on love and relationships, and prior to that managed a successful corporate sector business. She has completed a rigorous four-year spiritual transformation programme, as well as courses in counselling, mindfulness, bereavement, and relationship education. Respectful of all sacred ideologies, Elizabeth’s personal allegiance is to the Pathwork, a complex spiritual practice that embraces some Jungian and Freudian concepts, and involves the expansion of consciousness and compassion through psychotherapeutic means. 

Victoria State Student Representative

Fiona Mawson

Email: mawson4@aapt.net  

Fiona completed her Honours in 2007 at Swinburne University of Technology. She has worked with marginalised and disadvantaged groups for over 20 years and has a background in community development. 

Currently, Fiona co-manages an Aboriginal Health Service in Melbourne’s outer east. She is committed to ‘closing the gap’ between black and white Australians, and to enhancing the social, emotional and physical health of Indigenous Australians. Fiona plans to commence her Masters program and in the meantime is completing a Transpersonal Counselling course at the Phoenix Institute.   

NSW State Coordinator

Position open

Tanya Franic

Email: tfranic@unwired.com.au

Kathleen Eiszelt

Email: keiszelt@yahoo.com.au

NSW State Newsletter Editor for Transpersonal Psychology

NSW State Librarian and Resources Assistant