About

Dr Paul Gibney is a psychotherapist and family therapist in private practice in Brisbane and has been in full-time private practice since 1988. His doctoral thesis (1993) focused on the theoretical relationship among psychoanalysis, systemic therapy, time in therapy, and context.

His theoretical and academic interests, as well as his practical contributions to the field, have focused on brief therapy, systemic practice, Jungian psychotherapy, and psychoanalytic thought. Paul has presented many keynote addresses at psychotherapy, counselling, and family therapy conferences in Australia and New Zealand over the past three decades. He regularly presents educational lectures and seminars to a wide variety of agencies and audiences throughout the human services sector. His 2003 text, The Pragmatics of Therapeutic Practice, is a classic. It is used in several Master's in Counselling courses at universities.

He is the author of over 30 academic papers.