Penny Brabin
iMind Psychology for Living
Principal Psychologist
Camberwell, Victoria
Australia
Highest Degree Held: Ph.D.
Specialties: emotional defusion using Self-as-context
Types of Clients: Adolescents, Adults, Families
Languages spoken: English
Licensures/Certifications: Registered Psychologist, endorsed Clinical Psychologist, endorsed Educational and Developmental Psychologist
ACT/CBS Background and Training: 1. REBT with Albert Ellis, workshop with Russ Harris, interest in the research driven by Steven Hayes in context of Buddhist philosophy
2. own work in developing a process-based model of human behavior focused on the core issue of view of Self; consistent with Hayes research; demonstrated clinically over 20 years to be an effective therapeutic focus at core level from being driven by maladaptive (self-as-content view) to adaptive (Self-as-context view) functioning (see additional information).
2. own work in developing a process-based model of human behavior focused on the core issue of view of Self; consistent with Hayes research; demonstrated clinically over 20 years to be an effective therapeutic focus at core level from being driven by maladaptive (self-as-content view) to adaptive (Self-as-context view) functioning (see additional information).
ACT/CBS Experience: over last 15-20 years or some 40 years in practice
Additional Information: I have developed a unified theory from empirical principles of CBS in lie with Buddhist philosophy that ego is the core problem in human suffering . The arrival of bi-directional learning in an animal brain has led to our human-only capacity for developing concepts. These are often guesses initially but over time concepts are usually refined. Our initial view of self - the self-as-content - is the default automatic mind view which leads to most of our maladaptive human emotion and behavior problems. However, our human-only conscious awareness (perhaps another bi-directional process) gives us access to understanding the adaptive Self-as-context which enables us to manage our default mind view of self. This is the basis of the iMind dynamic process model which drives therapeutic practice. iMind integrates this conceptual shift as the core of CBS research in a process model which integrates the dimensions recognized in Hayes and Hoffman's meta-model of change processes (2020), adding structure and direction to ACT therapeutic processes.