ABOUT KATINA PALLARAS - RELATIONSHIPS
Relationship specialist and published author Katina Pallaras, understands how and why couples lose that loving feeling. She has worked in the area of interpersonal relationships for over 32 years and has been married almost as long. Katina has three children.
Her extensive experience both professionally and personally enable her to “walk the talk” and she has been referred to as an expert in this field. Katina is Managing Director of Human Interactions, which specializes in helping people create happier relationships and wellbeing. She also runs a private practice for individuals and couples seeking new directions in their lives.
Katina is committed to teaching positive ways to build healthy relationships and has opened many channels of communication to reach the wider community. Her regular radio appearances on Gavin Wood and Sandy Kaye’s 3AK program and a number of other stations including Sydney 2UE, ABC, 3AW and Greek F.M. speaking about relationships, is testimony to her commitment in this area. Katina was also columnist for the Melbourne Weekly for almost two years. Her column focused on the positive ingredients to create healthy relationships and the negative ingredients that lead to breakdown.
With a Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences from Latrobe University, a Bachelor of Social Work (Hons) from Monash University, a Master of Social Work from Sydney University, Certificate in Advanced Psychodynamic Marital Therapy, from the Centre of Relationship Education and a 6 months internship at Relationship Australia – Katina’s professional experience is well supported academically.
Katina is also former Director and Lecturer in the School of Social Work, University of New South Wales. She lectured in Counselling and Human Behaviour as well as trained and provided consultation to professionals in the field. Prior to this appointment, she was Coordinator of the Master of Social Work program at Melbourne University.
In her earlier career, she was Senior Social Worker for the North Eastern Region, Department of Community Services.
Katina is also a long standing member of A.A.S.W.
Her extensive experience both professionally and personally enable her to “walk the talk” and she has been referred to as an expert in this field. Katina is Managing Director of Human Interactions, which specializes in helping people create happier relationships and wellbeing. She also runs a private practice for individuals and couples seeking new directions in their lives.
Katina is committed to teaching positive ways to build healthy relationships and has opened many channels of communication to reach the wider community. Her regular radio appearances on Gavin Wood and Sandy Kaye’s 3AK program and a number of other stations including Sydney 2UE, ABC, 3AW and Greek F.M. speaking about relationships, is testimony to her commitment in this area. Katina was also columnist for the Melbourne Weekly for almost two years. Her column focused on the positive ingredients to create healthy relationships and the negative ingredients that lead to breakdown.
With a Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences from Latrobe University, a Bachelor of Social Work (Hons) from Monash University, a Master of Social Work from Sydney University, Certificate in Advanced Psychodynamic Marital Therapy, from the Centre of Relationship Education and a 6 months internship at Relationship Australia – Katina’s professional experience is well supported academically.
Katina is also former Director and Lecturer in the School of Social Work, University of New South Wales. She lectured in Counselling and Human Behaviour as well as trained and provided consultation to professionals in the field. Prior to this appointment, she was Coordinator of the Master of Social Work program at Melbourne University.
In her earlier career, she was Senior Social Worker for the North Eastern Region, Department of Community Services.
Katina is also a long standing member of A.A.S.W.
FOR APPOINTMENTS
Please call Kilby Heights Medical Centre on 98592627. Sessions run for approximately one hour. Fee $130
BOOKING SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
For booking speaking engagements, please call Katina Pallaras on 98592627.
AWAKEN THE HEART
REKINDLE THE FLAME OF LOVE
Have you lost that loving feeling?
Would you like a better insight into your partner's behaviour?
Are you giving your relationship the priority it deserves?
Katina Pallaras’ book Awaken the Heart, contains inspirational and practical advice to help couples rebuild a healthy, happy and loving relationship. Katina explores why the spark is lost and explains how relationships become run-down and unhappy.
Innovative and practical, Awaken the Heart provides accessible advice, such as self-evaluation questionnaires, exercises and reviews, which will enable couples to get straight to the heart of their problems. There are also case examples throughout the book that relate to life and real problems, including anger management, communication issues, emotional distance and intimacy.
If you need to reconnect with your partner, or if you’d simply like to put some zest back into your relationship, this book will allow you to quickly rebuild the partnership of your desire.
Click here to download order form - (320k)
Have you lost that loving feeling?
Would you like a better insight into your partner's behaviour?
Are you giving your relationship the priority it deserves?
Katina Pallaras’ book Awaken the Heart, contains inspirational and practical advice to help couples rebuild a healthy, happy and loving relationship. Katina explores why the spark is lost and explains how relationships become run-down and unhappy.
Innovative and practical, Awaken the Heart provides accessible advice, such as self-evaluation questionnaires, exercises and reviews, which will enable couples to get straight to the heart of their problems. There are also case examples throughout the book that relate to life and real problems, including anger management, communication issues, emotional distance and intimacy.
If you need to reconnect with your partner, or if you’d simply like to put some zest back into your relationship, this book will allow you to quickly rebuild the partnership of your desire.
Click here to download order form - (320k)
TAKING CHARGE
BETRAYAL: FROM DESPAIR TO DISCOVERY
Katina Pallaras, Relationship Therapist and author of Awaken the Heart has been working with distressed couples for over thirty years and understands the trauma partners experience when they discover their spouses betrayal.
Katina also recognises the immense value of peer and professional support and has founded a newly established forum for women "Taking Charge." Taking Charge understands the devastation women face in coping alone with a partner’s affair and aims to assist women move through their despair to a place where they can stand tall, make confident choices and take charge of their lives again.
The forum is offering the first programme of its type, to help women work through their pain and move to a place of healing and new discovery
Women who have been betrayed are invited to attend a series of workshops which helps them to work through their despair to a place where they can feel confident enough to create a new and stronger sense of self.
The programme is divided into two areas.
The first explores why affairs occur, the nature and impact of infidelity, the profile of partners who betray, how women cope with betrayal and decisions regarding whether to stay or leave.
The second part of the programme considers ways to build resilience, a strong sense of self and strategies to help women take charge and move forward.
Participants are invited to join the first group for 4 consecutive Mondays between 10.00 and 3.00 p.m.beginning 2008.
• Total Cost: $450 (Light lunches inclusive).
After the programme, participants also have an opportunity to become members of Taking Charge, which aims to grow its network and support women wanting to take back their lives.
About the Programme Coordinator
Katina Pallaras is a Relationship Therapist with over 32 years experience in the area of human behaviour. She is the founder of Taking Charge, author of Awaken the Heart and former Relationship Columnist for the Melbourne Weekly. She is currently in private practice.
Qualifications: B.A., BSW., MSW., Certificate in Advanced Psychodynamic Marital Therapy, M.A.A.S.W.
To Secure Your Position
If you would like to be part of the programme, please fill out the form enclosed with credit card details and return to Human Interactions, Kilby Heights Medical Centre, 215 Kilby Rd. East Kew 3101.
Please act promptly to secure your position since the programme is designed for an intimate and limited number. Cancellations are non refundable.
A letter confirming your place will be sent to you with your receipt of payment.
For Further Information
Please contact Katina at Kilby Heights Medical Centre on 98592627
Katina Pallaras, Relationship Therapist and author of Awaken the Heart has been working with distressed couples for over thirty years and understands the trauma partners experience when they discover their spouses betrayal.
Katina also recognises the immense value of peer and professional support and has founded a newly established forum for women "Taking Charge." Taking Charge understands the devastation women face in coping alone with a partner’s affair and aims to assist women move through their despair to a place where they can stand tall, make confident choices and take charge of their lives again.
The forum is offering the first programme of its type, to help women work through their pain and move to a place of healing and new discovery
Women who have been betrayed are invited to attend a series of workshops which helps them to work through their despair to a place where they can feel confident enough to create a new and stronger sense of self.
The programme is divided into two areas.
The first explores why affairs occur, the nature and impact of infidelity, the profile of partners who betray, how women cope with betrayal and decisions regarding whether to stay or leave.
The second part of the programme considers ways to build resilience, a strong sense of self and strategies to help women take charge and move forward.
Participants are invited to join the first group for 4 consecutive Mondays between 10.00 and 3.00 p.m.beginning 2008.
• Total Cost: $450 (Light lunches inclusive).
After the programme, participants also have an opportunity to become members of Taking Charge, which aims to grow its network and support women wanting to take back their lives.
About the Programme Coordinator
Katina Pallaras is a Relationship Therapist with over 32 years experience in the area of human behaviour. She is the founder of Taking Charge, author of Awaken the Heart and former Relationship Columnist for the Melbourne Weekly. She is currently in private practice.
Qualifications: B.A., BSW., MSW., Certificate in Advanced Psychodynamic Marital Therapy, M.A.A.S.W.
To Secure Your Position
If you would like to be part of the programme, please fill out the form enclosed with credit card details and return to Human Interactions, Kilby Heights Medical Centre, 215 Kilby Rd. East Kew 3101.
Please act promptly to secure your position since the programme is designed for an intimate and limited number. Cancellations are non refundable.
A letter confirming your place will be sent to you with your receipt of payment.
For Further Information
Please contact Katina at Kilby Heights Medical Centre on 98592627
ARTICLE ON BETRAYAL
AN AFFAIR TO DISMEMBER
Loyalty in marriage is a dying quality. There's no doubt that betrayal in marriage is in epidemic proportions. It has become infectious and there are few signs of change.
Faithfulness in marriage is being treated as a bonus rather than a given. Infidelity is like a disease that has spread across generations and consumed our entire culture. Every day, a marriage becomes a divorce statistic. Every day, another child becomes an innocent victim engulfed by its fallout.
An affair may go on for months, even years. Enormous energy is required to preserve secrecy, arrange discreet meetings and destroy incriminating evidence. Sometimes, partner are oblivious to the infidelity. Other times partners choose not to confront it. Being suspicious, they believe, is less painful than confirming the truth.
The discovery of an affair hits relationships and families like a nuclear bomb. Lives are turned upside down in an instant. The pain and suffering that follows such confirmation is immeasurable. An overwhelming sense of betrayal follows. Both partners are shattered and struggle to find a flicker of light in what seems a hopeless situation.
Some partners react with shock. Many relationships do not survive. Knowing a partner has been intimate or has feelings for someone else is indigestible. They are slammed into reality, terrified by uncertainty and grief-stricken with loss.
For some partners, healing and forgiveness may take many months and years. For others, it is impossible. They can never forgive and if they say they do, it is usually with a great deal of caution.
Most betrayed partners are devastated and find the discovery too excruciating to cope with. They feel alone, disillusioned, intense sadness, resentment, humiliation, rage and a host of other emotions all rolled into one. They don't know whether to stay or to leave, have an affair themselves, be a better partner, get a divorce, go on a diet or just give up!
The trauma leaves them feeling so totally confused, they don't know how or where to turn for help. They wonder if they are going mad or if there are others who feel the same. They ask if there is someone who will understand or must they face their despair alone?
Loyalty in marriage is a dying quality. There's no doubt that betrayal in marriage is in epidemic proportions. It has become infectious and there are few signs of change.
Faithfulness in marriage is being treated as a bonus rather than a given. Infidelity is like a disease that has spread across generations and consumed our entire culture. Every day, a marriage becomes a divorce statistic. Every day, another child becomes an innocent victim engulfed by its fallout.
An affair may go on for months, even years. Enormous energy is required to preserve secrecy, arrange discreet meetings and destroy incriminating evidence. Sometimes, partner are oblivious to the infidelity. Other times partners choose not to confront it. Being suspicious, they believe, is less painful than confirming the truth.
The discovery of an affair hits relationships and families like a nuclear bomb. Lives are turned upside down in an instant. The pain and suffering that follows such confirmation is immeasurable. An overwhelming sense of betrayal follows. Both partners are shattered and struggle to find a flicker of light in what seems a hopeless situation.
Some partners react with shock. Many relationships do not survive. Knowing a partner has been intimate or has feelings for someone else is indigestible. They are slammed into reality, terrified by uncertainty and grief-stricken with loss.
For some partners, healing and forgiveness may take many months and years. For others, it is impossible. They can never forgive and if they say they do, it is usually with a great deal of caution.
Most betrayed partners are devastated and find the discovery too excruciating to cope with. They feel alone, disillusioned, intense sadness, resentment, humiliation, rage and a host of other emotions all rolled into one. They don't know whether to stay or to leave, have an affair themselves, be a better partner, get a divorce, go on a diet or just give up!
The trauma leaves them feeling so totally confused, they don't know how or where to turn for help. They wonder if they are going mad or if there are others who feel the same. They ask if there is someone who will understand or must they face their despair alone?