Find a Therapist
The ASTA referral list is continually updated.
When initiating contact with a therapist, you may find the information below helpful.
First phone contact
Therapists will usually not take phone calls when they are in session and you should be prepared to leave a message if necessary.
Choosing between two or more therapists
When there is more than one ASTA member in your local area, you may wish to speak with several and then consult with the one you feel most comfortable with. ASTA members are happy to cross-refer to professional colleagues, as the client’s needs are always prioritized.
Making appointments
Once you have spoken to a therapist who you most feel at ease with, they will provide all the information you need relating to your appointment.
In most cases, a doctor’s referral is not required to consult a P.S.H. therapist. On rare occasions, the therapist may want to speak with your doctor if there is a possibility of medical complications. This can only be done with your approval.
Referral list for qualified P.S.H. therapists
If the therapist you are considering seeing is not on this list then please contact ASTA and have their credentials verified.
The people listed below are the premier P.S.H. therapists in Australia.
The following practitioners have sworn to uphold the Association’s professional and ethical standards, to undertake professional development activities on an annual basis and to have therapy outcomes evaluated through the Continuing Feedback Program.
Practicing Members
Ariane Roncon
P/Code: 3198
Suburb: Seaford
Telehealth available
Belinda Hawkins
P/Code: 2620
Suburb: Queanbeyan
Telehealth available
Lauren Fitzsimmons
P/Code: 2582
Suburb: Yass & Murrumbateman
Telehealth available
Sharon Corbett
P/Code: 2259
Suburb: Wyee Point
Currently Zoom Only
Non-Practicing Members
Simon Bench
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P/Code: 3185
Suburb: Elsternwick
Lifetime Member
Peter Jackson
A practicing mid-wife for many years in the N.S.W. Southern Highlands area, Peter discovered the tremendous healing power of PSH when working with the women diagnosed with hyperemesis gravidarum (severe morning sickness) who were in hospital in his care, and as a result of doing the work of PSH with him, recovered enough to be discharged home. Peter then took a ninety- degree turn and began the practice of PSH full-time. At the same time, he had immediately seen the value of PSH to prepare women for a better birth, and after many years of development, launched a small-group program he named Calmbirth, to do just that. In recognition of Peter’s huge contribution to the discipline of PSH and to the children of tomorrow, Peter has been granted Lifetime Membership of ASTA.
Honorary Members
Julie Ditrich
Julie trained as a clinical hypnotherapist and later joined the first intake of PSH therapists through the International Centre for Subconscious-mind Training and Research (ICSTR) under Greg Brice. After graduating, Julie became a chief prime mover in the establishment of the Australasian Subconscious-mind Therapists’ Association (ASTA) –the professional body for PSH therapists. She ran a PSH Therapy and Hypnotherapy practice in the Macarthur area and the Sydney CBD for eleven years thereafter, before focusing full-time on her writing and publishing career. Between 2014 and 2018, Julie was editor of The Australian Journal of Clinical Hypnotherapy & Hypnosis published by the Australian Society of Clinical Hypnotherapists (ASCH), which featured several articles on PSH. PSH therapy continues to inspire Julie’s creative life, and she often explores this therapy model and the theme of inner healing in her fiction and comics works. Julie is a Lifetime Member of ASTA.
Deborah Lhota
Deborah, coming from a long career in journalism, experienced the resolution of her depression after a few sessions of PSH as “feeling like all the lights had been switched back on”. Deborah went on to train as a therapist, she was ASTA president for a number of years, and later opened a training centre for PSH therapists in Sydney. Deborah has retired to spend more time on her artwork and to travel. In recognition of these significant contributions, Deborah has been granted a Lifetime Membership of ASTA.
The Founders
Frank Wright 1922-1997
Frank Wright was a practicing hypnotherapist for many years, but had long been dissatisfied with the level of permanent success clients were reporting. In 1988, he attended a conference where he heard a lecture by Edgar Barnett, a medico from Canada. Barnett had been a GP for many years but in 1975, gave up his general practice to devote himself to the full time practice of what he termed analytical hypnotherapy, with which he had significant success. There were several features of Barnett’s approach which struck a chord with Wright, and he began to alter his own practice. Around the same time, Wright met Greg Brice, and the two learned that they each had been impressed by the same features of Barnett’s work. Over the following years, striking out on this new path, further changes were made until the point was reached at which both men agreed a new discipline had been born, and a new name was therefore required. It was in this way that in 1993, Private Subconscious-mind Healing was birthed. The first official training was held in 1994 in Sydney’s Blue Mountains. Shortly after, in August 1995, Wright published his book entitled Emotional Healing, A New Therapy for a New Millennium. Now in its second edition, it had sold over 11,000 copies at last count.
Frank had been diabetic for many years, and sadly, in 1997, passed away in his sleep from the cardiac complications of the disease.
Greg Brice 1945-1924
Brice, like Wright, was a seeker, and like him, was far from satisfied with the success rate of his hypnotherapy clients. Brice spoke of the visceral reaction he had when he first met Wright and heard him speak of the new direction in which he was moving since hearing Edgar Barnett speak. In his definitive text on PSH (Healing Your Feelings), the centrality of the private element of the work is outlined, when Brice states “We both realized that subconscious problems could only be truly changed by the subconscious, and to this end, we both recognized the need for the process of change to be kept very private, within the subconscious mind of the client.”
Wright became more the public face of PSH, appearing in1997, for example, on Channel Ten’s The Morning Show, whilst the duties of developing materials and teaching was essentially shared equally. At the same time, both men continued to see a steady stream of clients. By 1997, the year of Wright’s untimely death, the numbers training had burgeoned. For Brice, the shock of losing Wright so early in the piece was enormous, however he made the decision to continue the training with the help during the first years of assistant Janine Budgeon. Deborah Lhota ran a training school in Sydney for a period. Canberra-based Belina Hawkins opened a third school, and Brice continued training therapists In Brisbane up until only a couple of years prior to his death in 2024. Greg Brice was taken from us sadly in 2024, his death the result of complications of chronic lung disease.