Penthos was established by a concerned group of mental health professionals with expertise in couple and family psychotherapy, who saw the suffering of vulnerable families and the risks that they face, in the absence of appropriately timed, accessible, evidence based therapeutic services.
Our Board - To help deliver its charitable aims, Penthos has brought together Board members who, individually and collectively, bring exceptional organisational, financial, governance, program management, research and clinical skills - and share a commitment to enabling equality of opportunity to all Australians.
Our Service Providers - Penthos service providers are all qualified mental health professionals, who have been trained in the core professions of Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Clinical Social Work and who have had additional training and experience in specialist couples and family psychotherapy.
The clinical services of Penthos is provided by these experienced psychotherapists, who receive ongoing training and supervision in the Penthos model.
Evaluation of the Penthos Intervention Pilot Study will be provided by Professor Dianna Kenny.
Vale The Hon Ann Symonds AM
It is with great sadness that Penthos ended the year with the passing of our friend and Board member, Ann Symonds.
Ann, the first female Deputy Mayor of Waverley and a NSW Parliamentarian from 1982 to 1998, was enthusiastic in encouraging the establishment of Penthos.
Throughout her life she supported those in need. She worked for drug reform, with the establishment of safe injecting rooms, assistance of women escaping domestic violence and for care of the children of those incarcerated; these were just a few of the many causes which have benefited from Ann’s tireless fight for social justice and the rights of the marginalised. Ann was known as “the champion of the untidy and inarticulate”.
Penthos, along with the Politics of Social Change Foundation and The Miranda Project, all instigated in the last 12 months of her life and while in ill health, are organisations that will carry on her unswerving dedication to supporting those in need.
The Penthos Board
Timothy Keogh, PhD
President
is a psychoanalyst, clinical and forensic psychologist and couple psychotherapist with over 30 of years clinical experience. He was the former Executive Director of a variety of statewide programs in the public sector, notably in the forensic mental health and drug & alcohol areas. He is currently on the Board of the International Association for Couple and Family Psychoanalysis and is also an honorary senior lecturer in the Medical School of the University of Sydney and has significant academic publications.
Cynthia Gregory-Roberts, BA Dip. Soc. Stud.
Vice President
Is an accredited mental health social worker and individual, couple and family psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice. She has worked in the field of child and family mental health as a clinical social worker for over 40 years and has extensive experience as a teacher and supervisor of general practitioners and mental health professionals. Cynthia is the English Secretary of the International Association of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis and has co-authored a number of journal articles and chapters on couple and family therapy.
Sandra Di Bella, BA LLB LLM (Hons)
Secretary
Is a lawyer with over 35 years of experience in the corporate, commercial, and not-for-profit sector. She was formerly a partner with Deacons (now Norton Rose Fulbright) and she is currently the part-time, in-house legal adviser to the Art Gallery of NSW. She also sits on the Board of a USA-based not-for-profit organization involved in student exchange, youth education and training programs. She is the pro bono lawyer for Penthos Inc.
Thomas T Murphy, MBA
Treasurer
Is a consultant who specialises in asset management for family offices and foundations. He is a Partner with Escala Partners: a personalised wealth management firm based in Australia. He co-founded Family Office Research and Management Pty Ltd, which merged with Escala late in 2016, and has held institutional funds management roles throughout the Australian financial services industry for more than thirty years with Deutsche Bank, BNP Paribas, Commonwealth Bank Funds Management and J. P. Morgan.
Jan McDonnell
Member
Janice (Jan) McDonnell is a Consumer Representative on several committees for the Sydney Local Health District (SLHD) and is currently the secretary of the Alexandria Erskineville Women’s Bowling Club, a position she has held for over a decade. Prior to retirement she worked in Finance for numerous individuals and organisations including J P Morgan, Barclays and the merchant bank of Westpac, Bill Acceptance. She hopes to bring a non- clinical perspective to the work and goals of Penthos Inc.
Ed Brooke
Member
Ed Brooke is an investment advisor who has held portfolio management and investment research roles both domestically and overseas for 19 years, most recently with Family Office Research & Management Pty Ltd (FORM) which merged with Escala Partners Ltd in January 2017. During his five years at FORM, he was responsible for actively managing domestic and offshore bond portfolios as well conducting fund manager research as part of the product approval committee. Prior to FORM, he spent six years in London with an investment consultancy firm providing investment advice and portfolio management services to charities, Foundations, family offices and high net worth clients. Ed has a Bachelor of Commerce from Sydney University and holds a Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance and Investment.
The Chief Evaluator
Professor Dianna Kenny
Professor of Psychology, University of Sydney
Dianna is Professor of Psychology and Professor of Music at The University of Sydney. She is the author of eight books and over 250 journal articles, book chapters, and commissioned reports. Dianna has also published extensively in the field of psychoanalysis (God, Freud, and Religion, Routledge, 2015) and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. She has undertaken numerous research projects funded by the Australian Council of Research (ARC), National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), the Australia Council for the Arts (ACA), and the NSW Department of Juvenile Justice. She is experienced in program evaluation using both quantitative and qualitative methods and in the construction of research assessment instruments.
Project Coordinator, Penthos Intervention Pilot Program
Susie Manfred
BComm (UNSW), Grad Dip Applied Finance & Investment (SIA) MPE (UNSW)
Susie worked for multinational advertising agencies in Sydney and London. She was Group Account Director with M&C Saatchi Advertising before focusing her energies on not for profit enterprises. She is a founding member and past chair of The Marmalade Foundation which established Lou’s Place and The Plunkett Street Community Project and which continues to advocate for those affected by domestic violence, homelessness and mental illness. Susie has also been actively involved in a number of other not for profits including the Aunties and Uncles Program, the Greenllght Movement and as a Member of Cranbook School Council and Director of The Cranbrook School Foundation.
