Maggie Down
B.App.Sc.(O.T.)
Accredited Gestalt Therapist

Maggie has worked as a counsellor and psychotherapist for over 30 years. She trained initially as an occupational therapist, then graduated as a gestalt therapist from the Gestalt Therapy Institute of Perth. She worked for many years in mental health settings before commencing private practice which she has conducted – and maintained her passion for – for over 25 years. Her private practice is at Counselling on Stirling. She offers individual consultations, workshops and trainings. While her orientation is fundamentally gestalt, she holds a strong interest in the interface between gestalt and psychodynamic understandings.

Maggie is a part-time lecturer within the Bachelor of Counselling programme at the University of Notre Dame. She served for many years as president of PACAWA, the Psychotherapists and Counsellors Association of Western Australia, and as a member of the Training Standards Committee of PACFA.

As a senior clinician with a broad range of professional experience, Maggie offers clinical supervision for counsellors, psychotherapists, mental health professionals, gestalt trainees, and other trainee practitioners to enhance their clinical knowledge and skills, as well as to support their development of self as a helping professional. She provides both individual and group supervision. Maggie has undertaken formal training in clinical supervision (CST Certificate in Supervision).

Supervision Services Offered

In addition to supervision training, Susanna and Maggie offer the following supervision services:

• Supervision consultations for professionals
• Small group clinical supervision for counselling agencies
• Reflective supervision groups for supervisors