WHO ARE WE?
Our Committee 2025-2026
Paul McQuillan
President
Paul is a foundation member of VFIA. He has been the secretary in 2022/3 and will be President for 2024. He is a Faculty and Life Member of the Viktor Frankl Institute in the USA.
Roger Hitchcock
Secretary
Roger is a strength based counsellor having a Bachelor of Counselling from Edith Cowan University in WA. He is based in the Great southern Wheatbelt region working closely with Farmers, Rural communities and families in the region. Roger is a student of Logotherapy.
David Easton
Vice-President
David Easton holds a Bachelor of Social Work, a Graduate Diploma of Counselling (Grief & Loss), an Advanced Course in Logotherapy, and a Certificate in Clinical Supervision. He works part-time at a regional specialist palliative care service in WA and in private practice in Perth.
David uses integrative, meaning-based counselling and psychotherapy approaches, with a keen interest in expanding his understanding of existential-phenomenology modalities.
Ana Toledo
Treasurer
Ana trained as a Psychologist in Colombia, and is also trained in suicidology, Mental health and Psychotherapy in Queensland, and is a student of logotherapy. She is currently working as a psychotherapist.
Hidayet Ceylan
Committee – Chair PD Sub-committee
Hidayet is a Logotherpist who trained with the Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy in Turkiye. He currently works in aged care in Melbourne.
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Memberships and supporting members
Ana Toledo and Doug Nichols.
PD and Logotherapy conversations
Hidayet Ceylan(convener), Peter Bowden, Janice Butera, Cate Noy
Social media and promotion
Doug Nichola (convener), Ana Toledo
Pallative Care Arena
David Easton.
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Our Focus
- To promote the thought and therapeutic practice of Viktor Frankl
- To combat, amongst other psychological illnesses, the widespread phenomenon of depression
- To promote research into the philosophical and ethical impact of Logotherapy
- To promote the practice of Logotherapy
- To seek academic channels for training in Logotherapy
- To promote a healthier and more resilient society through the teachings and practice of Logotherapy
Our Inspirations
Logotherapy
Logotherapy aims to actualise the human spirit, that uniquely human capacity to take a stand, to make a decision even during the most difficult of life’s circumstances.
Viktor Frankl
Frankl’s work as a psychiatrist led him to believe that at least 20% of psychiatric illness presenting at his clinic was due to frustration with the human search for meaning in life.
Education
We recommend that members study logotherapy in depth. Logotherapy is predominantly an adjunct therapy and is a qualification additional to your professional area of practice.