Evan Player is a former serviceman (Army) with a strong family history of service. He was a keen sportsman playing AFL, Rugby Union, Rugby League, Judo and Jujitsu at an elite level.
He presently is a certified coach in Rugby Union and Judo with a strong interest in helping people achieve peak performance in all areas of life. He comes from a blue-collar background and he has experience working with people who work in the Trades and a good understanding of the challenges faced by FIFO workers and their families, and people who are engaged in working with and protecting members of the public. Evan identifies strongly as a male and has a special interest in Men’s Mental Health.
He is a Psychotherapist and Credentialed Mental Health Nurse with over 25 years of experience supporting people with their mental health. Evan is a certified CBT therapist and has knowledge in a range of approaches such as Mindfulness Therapy, DBT, ACT, MBT, Bowen Family Therapy, Hobson’s Conversational Model, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, and Existential Psychotherapy.
Evan is most strongly influenced by the work of Carl Jung.
Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. The central concepts of analytical psychology is individuation —the lifelong psychological process of differentiation of the self out of each individual’s conscious and unconscious elements. Jung considered it to be the main task of human development. He created some of the best known psychological concepts, including synchronicity, archetypal phenomena, the collective unconscious, the psychological complex and extraversion and introversion. Jung’s form of therapy has been found to be especially helpful for people in the second half of life.
Evan began working with people in the Mental Health sector in 1996. He became a Registered Nurse in 1999 and a Registered Mental Nurse in the UK in 2001.
In 2004 he moved to Townsville for 18 months and stayed and built a life in the Townsville community. In 2007 he completed his Master’s Degree in Mental Health Nursing through the University of Southern Queensland. He became a Credentialed Mental Health Nurse in 2011 and a Fellow of the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses (ACMHN) in 2016.
He has delivered numerous lectures at the International Conference of Mental Health Nursing, Townsville Hospital Grand Rounds, and at James Cook University on subjects influencing Mental Health such as Compassion, Coercion, Anxiety, Recovery, and Bullshit. He is currently completing a second Master’s Degree in Mental Health (Psychotherapy) at the University of Queensland. He is a member of the Psychotherapists and Counsellors Federation of Australia (PAFCA).
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