About Us

Dr Stephen Malloch

Stephen is a counsellor, coach, educator and academic. He has practiced and taught mindfulness and meditation for over 25 years. He is an Honorary Fellow in the Westmead Psychotherapy Program at Sydney University researching the ways psychotherapists and their clients talk and make meaning with each other, especially the role of empathy. At Western Sydney University he is an Adjunct Fellow at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour, and Developmentand where he has undertaken psychology research into music and mother-infant communication, studying how we shape time expressively and communicatively using gestures of voice and body. This is the basis of his model of Communicative Musicality.

His areas of expertise include holistic and person centred counselling and psychotherapy, life coaching and career coaching, mindfulness training, change facilitation, and communication coaching. He has carried out extensive work in research psychology on non-verbal communication and meaning making.

Stephen works in private practice as a counsellor & coach at his practice in Avalon, on Sydney's Northern Beaches. At the moment, all meetings are via Zoom or phone. He also works as a corporate consultant and workshop facilitator in the ares of well-being and change creation. He is a clinical member of the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA Reg. Clinical 22740).



Qualifications
PhD (University of Edinburgh)
M.Mus (University of London)
B.Mus (University of Sydney)
Dip Holistic Counselling (Nature Care College, Sydney)
Dip Transformational Life Coaching (Nature Care College, Sydney)
Level 1, Institute of Executive Coaching and Leadership, Sydney.
Dip Yoga Teaching (British Wheel of Yoga)
PACFA Reg. Clinical 22740 (PACFA)

Honorary Fellow, Westmead Psychotherapy Program, School of Medicine, University of Sydney
Adjunct Fellow, MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour, and Development, Western Sydney University