David Chong OAM is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist with 40 years experience. He has training in several areas including Intensive Short Term Dynamic Therapy (ISTDP), Zen based psychotherapies, Psychoanalysis, Family Therapy, Phenomenological approaches and Psychodrama. David has held positions in State and National APS groups. His own unconventional background (having Chinese parents and raised in Brazil) has made him very comfortable working with people with unconventional/complex histories. Besides English, David is psychotherapeutically fluent in Portuguese and Spanish. David lectures and provides clinical supervision in ISTDP, trauma, addictions, life existential challenges, sexuality and cross cultural issues.Along with providing safety to experience and express emotions, David's multidimensional clinical thinking and awareness, sense of humour, compassion and directness, assists the therapeutic process to be safe, containing and support change.