Teaching Tool: Transference and Attachment in Therapy

Clinical and a counselling psychologist with over twenty years of experience in a variety of clinical and community settings. Lynn lectures and supervises Masters and PhD students in the Curtin University, Master of Counselling Psychology programme. Lynn runs a private practice and specializes in parent-infant relationships and work with young families using attachment theory and self psychology as her theoretical bases. She is the current Chair of the Australian Association for Infant Mental Health. Email:

Retired associate professor and clinical psychologist. Noel has been at the forefront of innovative movements throughout her professional career. In her academic position at Edith Cowan University, Noel established the first professional doctorate in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy in Western Australia. Noel was a founding member of the Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Western Australia (APPWA) and was recognized as a Fellow in 2009. In her private practice, Noel worked with long-term clients from a self psychology perspective and was also renowned, with her clinical partner John Carroll, for their psychodrama therapy groups.