Zohar Berchik, M Couns & HS

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Melbourne
AUSTRALIA

+61425 851 188

www.zoharberchik.com
enquiries@zoharberchik.com

Zohar Berchik is an Australian counsellor, psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, educator and group facilitator with more than two decades of experience in group leadership and facilitation.

She has worked with Voice Dialogue since 2007, and the Psychology of Selves and Aware Ego process remain central to her professional identity. Her interest in Voice Dialogue extends across individual facilitation, personal development, therapeutic relationships, group processes and experiential education.

Alongside her clinical practice, Zohar has held senior academic and educational leadership roles in counselling and psychotherapy, including at Deakin University and the Cairnmillar Institute. She is a two-time recipient of higher education teaching excellence awards and has published peer-reviewed research on Voice Dialogue.

Zohar is based in Melbourne's bayside suburbs, Victoria, Australia, and offers Voice Dialogue facilitation and professional consultations online to clients nationally and internationally.

Expertise

Zohar's particular expertise includes Voice Dialogue facilitation, the Psychology of Selves, experiential psychotherapy and group process.

Her broader practice is grounded in contemporary person-centred, humanistic and relational approaches, drawing on Emotion-Focused Therapy and psychodynamic and systems-informed perspectives.

She has a particular interest in the interplay between our inner selves, emotional experience, bodily felt sense and relational patterns, and in the integration of Voice Dialogue into individual and group work.

Languages Spoken: English

Offering Continuing Education Credits

Detailed information

Practicing Psychotherapy Since 2004
Practicing Voice Dialogue Since 2007
Teaching Since 2010

Additional Modalities: Person-Centred and Experiential Psychotherapy, Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), Psychodynamic and Systems-Informed Approaches, and Experiential Group Work.

Areas of Interest: The Psychology of Selves and the development of the Aware Ego process; exploring internal polarities, bonding patterns and relationship dynamics; integrating Voice Dialogue with emotional processing and bodily felt sense; experiential group facilitation; and the personal and professional development of counsellors and psychotherapists.

Degree
Title/Field	School	Date
Master of Counselling and Human Services	La Trobe University	2009
Graduate Diploma of Counselling and Human Services	La Trobe University	2007

Certifications
Type	Granting Organization	Date
Adv. Cert. Psychotherapy	Cairnmillar	2004

Professional Background
Zohar holds a Master of Counselling and Human Services and a Graduate Diploma of Counselling and Human Services, both from La Trobe University. Her academic experience includes serving as Senior Lecturer in Counselling at Deakin University and Course Director and Senior Lecturer at the Cairnmillar Institute, alongside teaching roles at the University of New England, Australian College of Applied Psychology, La Trobe University and the Institute for Emotion Focused Therapy. She previously served as Teaching and Learning Director of the Australian Centre for Voice Dialogue, developing and facilitating experiential professional development for counsellors, psychotherapists and other helping professionals. Her work has included invited workshops for counselling associations in Australia and Malaysia, Voice Dialogue presentations at national and international conferences, and specialist professional development exploring self-care and the use of self in therapeutic practice. She also led a team of facilitators in delivering an experiential Voice Dialogue professional-development event in Melbourne attended by approximately 50 practitioners. Zohar received higher education teaching excellence awards in 2013 and 2018, recognising sustained excellence and teaching that influences, motivates and inspires students. With Adam J. Rock and Harris Friedman, she co-authored the peer-reviewed article Allow Me to Introduce My Selves: An Introduction to and Phenomenological Study of Voice Dialogue Therapy, published in the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology in 2016. Zohar is a PACFA Registered Clinical Counsellor (34025), an ACA Level IV member and a member of the ACA College of Supervisors. She also serves on the Steering Committee of the National Heads of Counselling and Psychotherapy Education (NHCPE).

Professional Background

Zohar holds a Master of Counselling and Human Services and a Graduate Diploma of Counselling and Human Services, both from La Trobe University.

Her academic experience includes serving as Senior Lecturer in Counselling at Deakin University and Course Director and Senior Lecturer at the Cairnmillar Institute, alongside teaching roles at the University of New England, Australian College of Applied Psychology, La Trobe University and the Institute for Emotion Focused Therapy.

She previously served as Teaching and Learning Director of the Australian Centre for Voice Dialogue, developing and facilitating experiential professional development for counsellors, psychotherapists and other helping professionals.

Her work has included invited workshops for counselling associations in Australia and Malaysia, Voice Dialogue presentations at national and international conferences, and specialist professional development exploring self-care and the use of self in therapeutic practice. She also led a team of facilitators in delivering an experiential Voice Dialogue professional-development event in Melbourne attended by approximately 50 practitioners.

Zohar received higher education teaching excellence awards in 2013 and 2018, recognising sustained excellence and teaching that influences, motivates and inspires students.

With Adam J. Rock and Harris Friedman, she co-authored the peer-reviewed article Allow Me to Introduce My Selves: An Introduction to and Phenomenological Study of Voice Dialogue Therapy, published in the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology in 2016.

Zohar is a PACFA Registered Clinical Counsellor (34025), an ACA Level IV member and a member of the ACA College of Supervisors. She also serves on the Steering Committee of the National Heads of Counselling and Psychotherapy Education (NHCPE).

Basic Voice Dialogue Training
Title	Where	When	Hours / Days	Teachers
Additional online Voice Dialogue training and professional development.	Albion, California USA	Mar–Apr 2019	15 hours	ANA BARNER
Voice Dialogue intensive	New South Wales, Australia	May 2018	5 days	ANA BARNER
Voice Dialogue Summer Retreat Program, Voice Dialogue	Northwest, Oregon, USA	May 2011
Voice Dialogue Level II / III	Albion, California USA	April 2011		HAL STONE, Ph.D. & SIDRA STONE, Ph.D.
Voice Dialogue Level II / III	Albion, California USA	April 2010		HAL STONE, Ph.D. & SIDRA STONE, Ph.D.
Voice Dialogue Level I	Melbourne, Australia	2007		ANA BARNER

* The most recent workshops.

Zohar Berchik, M Couns & HS

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