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Our Management Committee

Dr Eng-Kong Tan

Dr Eng-Kong Tan

DR ENG-KONG TAN
AABCAP Founding President
Dr. Tan is a medical doctor, consultant psychiatrist and analytic psychotherapist in private practice, providing individual and couples therapy, meditation, personal development and analytic groups. He is the Founder and Chairman of Metta Clinic, a group psychiatric and psychotherapy clinic in Sydney. He is a former Chair of the Faculty of Psychotherapy of the RANZCP and Chairman of Training to the PPAA. He has been a member of the Training Committees of NSWIPP and ANZAP.
Eng-Kong is the Founder President of AABCAP and its first Director of Training of our Buddhism and Psychotherapy Professional Training Course. He has presented keynote addresses, workshops, seminars on Spirituality, Buddhism, Mindfulness and Psychotherapy in Australia and Asia. Eng-Kong has been conferred Adjunct Professorship at Nan Tien Institute, Wollongong, which is working towards being Australia’s first Buddhist University.  Here he teaches a week long course on Healing Traditions: Buddhism and Psychotherapy.

 

Dr Joyce Man

JOYCE MAN
AABCAP President
Dr Joyce Man is a clinical psychologist and researcher with ORS Group, where as the Learning and Development Manager, provides training and supervision to psychologists and behaviour support clinicians who work with clients with disabilities. She is a co-founding committee member of Mitra Youth Buddhist Network and a co-founding committee member of Australasian Association of Buddhist Counsellors and Psychotherapists.  She has served as past president of MacBuddhi-Macquarie University Buddhist Society and is the Secretary of the International Buddhist Cham Shan Temple of Australia committee.
During her masters degree, she completed her thesis on the efficacy of Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction as a treatment for stress, depression and anxiety.  Her PhD thesis completed at Macquarie University, examined psychology best practice in mental health and intellectual disabilities and carer service experiences.  Joyce recently completed her role as a  research associate position with Autism Research Centre at Cambridge University where she co-facilitated a group of autism representatives across Europe to promote participatory research within AIMS-2-TRIALS. Joyce also conducted research around autism service pathways and best practice with the autism community across the EU. Preliminary findings have been used to inform the EU parliament with a view to improving service accessibility and standards for autism-specific and mainstream services for autistic people.

 

Nicholas-Tabley

Nicholas Tabley

NICHOLAS TABLEY
AABCAP Committee Member
Nicholas is a registered psychologist, meditation and yoga teacher in private practice on the NSW South Coast.  He holds Masters' Degrees in Applied Psychology and Adult Education. He works with individuals, couples and families in the areas of mental health and well-being, life transitions, trauma,  and personal development. He has been a couple and family therapist, child counsellor and group facilitator with Relationships Australia in Wollongong for several years and has worked for over 35 years in community health, designing and running group programs in areas of men’s health,  interpersonal skills, yoga and mindfulness meditation.
He has been a visiting lecturer at the Nan Tien Institute (NTI)  which is Australia's first government accredited tertiary institution grounded in Buddhist values. At NTI  he has developed and taught programs to masters level  in Social Health and Well-being and Mindfulness for Professionals.  He is a graduate of the AABCAP Professional Training Course in Buddhism and Psychotherapy and an accredited supervisor with AABCAP and the Psychology Board of Australia.