Executive
An Executive is elected from our certificated members every two years. You can Contact the President and other members of the AANZPA Executive.
Martin Putt
President
Martin is a Psychodramatist and TEPiT. He works in Auckland, NZ, in private practice as a registered psychotherapist with individuals and groups, especially seeing adolescents and men. He is engaged in training and supervision at the Auckland Training Centre for Psychodrama. Martin lives in Westmere with his partner, Clare, and teenage son, Jasper and is currently enjoying a foray into suburban beekeeping.
eMail: president@aanzpa.org
Helen Phelan
Vice President
Helen has had over 25 years of experience in organisational development in many contexts and integrates psychodrama in training, group leadership, project planning and coaching. In recent years, she has applied this work to social justice and human rights issues, especially exploring systemic discrimination. Helen is a qualified Sociometrist and holds a Masters in Human Rights. Helen continues to gain new insights and learning from on-going professional supervision, peer relationships, training and Conference participation. Helen seeks to do serious work in a light way and to appreciate the creative capacity in others and herself.
Elizabeth Synnot
Secretary
Elizabeth Synnot LLB, M SocSci, Sociodramatist, TEPIT, has 35 years of experience working with all types of groups in our society. She takes initiatives to create environments to experiment and play with alternative approaches and outlooks to collaborative living and work. Elizabeth enjoys the complexities of group life and the extension and ongoing fine tuning of our world views and our concomitant experience of the world. She gets alongside you as you picture a good life and have experiences in the social systems in which you live. She highly values paying attention to spontaneity, sociometry and role relationships in the context of working and living together. Elizabeth has a practice where she works with families, individuals, communities and work groups. Much of her engagement by organisations and community groups is in the arenas of leadership and teamwork. Elizabeth receives regular professional supervision and training.
eMail: secretary@aanzpa.org
Simon Gurnsey
Treasurer
Simon Gurnsey is a Sociometrist and has been working for a number of years as AANZPA’s Membership Administrator and Webmaster. He is building a house in Parua Bay having retired from his work for city-making organisation Gap Filler. His dog, Mr. Brock, is on the job with him every day, mainly to fetch sticks.
eMail: treasurer@aanzpa.org
Selina Reid
Membership Secretary
Selina Reid is a psychodramatist and registered psychotherapist. She works in private practice with individuals and couples and facilitates Self Development and Professional Development workshops in Aotearoa New Zealand. As President of the Northern Region, she’s inspired by the enabling and creative potential of the psychodramatic method to foster fresh and vital responses to life.
eMail: memsec@aanzpa.org
Patricia O'Rourke
Committee Member, Publications
Patricia O’Rourke is a psychodramatist and a child psychotherapist with a wide experience of working in Australia and New Zealand. She has a special interest in child protection, preventative work with infants and their families, and reflective group supervision. She is the clinical lead and coordinator of a state-wide infant therapeutic reunification service in South Australia, has recently completed her PhD at the University of Adelaide and works as a consultant, supervisor and trainer in private practice.
Contact the AANZPA Executive
eMail president@aanzpa.org