Dr Chris Walsh MBBS, DPM, FAChAM is a psychiatrist working in private practice in North Carlton (Melbourne, Australia). He has been working in psychiatry since 1985. In that time, he has worked in hospitals, jails, community settings, and drug and alcohol institutions.

In 1983, after he first graduated as a medical doctor, Chris assisted at the Tibetan refugee hospital in Dharamsala in Northern India.

This trip left a lasting impression on him. Chris's daily Mindfulness Meditation practice began eighteen months later, as he began working in psychiatry. As a result Mindfulness has been organically integrated into his psychiatric practice from the beginning.

His psychotherapy integrates diverse theoretical frameworks, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Gestalt and Self Psychology in which he is formally trained.

Chris also works in the Drug and Alcohol treatment setting and has a strong commitment to promoting use of mindfulness and awareness of family issues in that area. He is a member of The Family Alcohol and Drug Network (Fadnet) which is a gathering of professionals from the drug and alcohol field with a particular interest in family work.

Chris has taken a major role in family constellation work in Australia. He has given presentations at Australian national professional conferences on both mindfulness and family constellations. Chris is also the founder and moderator of Constellation Talk a very active email chat group with over 300 subscribers worldwide.

Chris has a breadth of experience both in his life as well as his work. As a medical student he took a year off from his studies. He spent this year travelling around Australia working as a labourer in factory and farm jobs. He has diverse interests including music, poetry and football and is fluent in Spanish.

Curriculum Vitae

He has constructed two other websites:

Websites

Mindfulness meditation is now receiving scientific validation as an adjunct to conventional psychological and medical therapies. With mindfulness we move from being buffeted by the eddies and currents of our thoughts feelings and urges to calmly watching the stream of consciousness going by.

This site is designed to asist people who are interested in the integration of mindfulness meditation, psychotherapy and medical therapies for their own wellbeing, for the purpose of enhancing the therapeutic relationship or to improve the quality of clinical interventions.

Family constellations and organizational constellations are based on Bert Hellinger's innovative "Orders of Love". This work emerged out of psychotherapy, family therapy, group therapy, systems theory and phenomenology.

It can be used to help deal with interpersonal problems in both families and organizations. It can help families deal with other issues such as alcoholism and other addictions, psychiatric disorders, serious medical illnesses, adoption, grief and separation.

It can help organizations function more effectively dealing with such issues as restructuring and communication problems. Individuals who somehow feel held back from living life to their full potential may also benefit.

Dr Walsh runs regular family constellation workshops, the details of which can be found on this website. There is also a Spanish language family constellations site

Constelaciones familiares y constelaciones organizacionales son basados en el inovativo trabajo de Bert Hellinger llamado "Los Ordenes del Amor", que emergió de la psicoterapia, terapia de familia, terapia del grupo, teoría de sistemas y fenomenología.

Puede ser usado para ayudar a entender problemas interpersonales en familias y organizaciones. Puede ayudar a las familias a trabajar con problemas como alcoholismo y otras adicciones, desordenes psiquiátricos, enfermedades físicas serias, adopciones, duelo y separación.

Asimismo puede ayudar a organizaciones a funcionar en forma más efectiva en caso de reestructuración y problemas de comunicación.

Personas que, de alguna manera se sienten impedidas de vivir su vida en todo su potencial también se benefician con esta forma de trabajo.

Dr Walsh hace talleres regulares en constelaciones familiares. Se puede encontrar las detalles en este vinculo.

Dr Christopher Walsh
806 Lygon St
North Carlton
Victoria 3054

Ph: + 61 (0)3 9347 4300
Fax: +61 (0)3 9347 4355

Email: info@cwalsh.com.au