Our Training Faculty

Zish Rosenbach-Ziembinski

Zish graduated in Clinical Psychology from the University of Western Australia in 1975 and then worked in psychiatric clinics and hospitals for a decade before entering private practice in 1987.

He graduated as a Gestalt Therapist in 1983 with the Gestalt Therapy Institute of Perth and has been Co-Director of Gestalt Training Institute West Australia (GTIWA) since 1990.

Zish has also been a Faculty Trainer with Gestalt Associates Training Los Angeles (GATLA) since 1995, and has conducted training workshops across Australia, New Zealand, the USA and Europe.

Over the years Zish has developed a special interest in how individual differences and cultural diversity can support the development of both rich and mutually nourishing human connection in relationship as well as lead to deep splits, resentments and open conflict.

Claudia Rosenbach-Ziembinski

Claudia has been a registered Clinical Psychologist in Western Australia since 1991. She is a practising psychotherapist with 35 years of experience across private practice in both Perth and Berlin. Prior to completing her studies in Clinical Psychology, she worked for ten years as a high school teacher and school counsellor in Berlin.

Claudia trained as a Gestalt Therapist at the Berlin Gestalt Centre (1982) and graduated from the Gestalt Associates Training Los Angeles (GATLA) Summer Program in 1987.

Claudia has been Co-Director of Gestalt Training Institute West Australia (GTIWA) since 1990 and a Faculty Trainer with GATLA since 1998. She continues to lead international workshops, bringing a deeply relational, cross-continental perspective to the training.

Ken Yeo

Ken arrived in Perth in 1994 and graduated from Curtin University in 1998 with qualifications in occupational therapy.

He led a long-term psychiatric rehabilitation programme for eleven years, with a focus on experiential learning in both individual and group therapy settings, and joined GTIWA as a Trainer in 2010.

Danielle Zappavigna

Danielle is a graduate of the Institute (GTIWA), with experience in private practice.

She is a Board-Approved Supervisor, providing professional supervision for mental health professionals.