Dr Stephen Malloch

Qualifications
PhD (Univ. of Edinburgh)
B.Mus (NSW Conservatorium of Music)
M.Mus (Univ. of London)
Dip. Hol. Counselling (Nature Care College)
Dip. Trans. Life Coaching (Nature Care College)
Dip. Yoga Teaching (British Wheel of Yoga)
Cert. Kinesiology (School of Creative Kinesiology)
Avatar Masters Course

Memberships
Counsellors & Psychotherapists Assoc. (IMCAPA)

Stephen has practiced Buddhist meditation for over 15 years and is a qualified coach, counsellor and yoga teacher. He taught meditation at The Lotus Room on Sydney’s Northern Beaches for many years.

Bringing together his passion for psychology, spirituality and communication, Stephen created HeartMind, a business focused on assisting people to live a saner, more meaningful life, and to help create an environment where time for reflection, time for silence, the creation of heartfelt meaning and matters of the soul are valued as vital aspects of living a fulfilling life.

Stephen sees clients for Holistic Counselling, Transformational Coaching and Meditation Instruction in Mosman. By combining these modalities, Stephen offers an approach that aims to assist clients to find and build a sense of inner stillness and strength, to resolve issues from the past, to build on current strengths and to create a vision for the future.

As an academic researcher at the University of Edinburgh and then at the University of Western Sydney, Stephen is founder of the model of interaction known as Communicative Musicality, which is concerned with the non-verbal ‘narratives’ that underlie all communication, especially between a caregiver and infant. He has held a number of nationally competitive research grants investigating mother-infant communication and presented on this topic both nationally and internationally. Stephen has published in peer-reviewed academic journals, written book chapters, and is principal-editor of Communicative Musicality: Exploring the basis of human companionship  published by Oxford University Press in 2009.

Stephen is also a well regarded public speaker. In 2008 he was invited to present at the World Association of Infant Mental Health in Yokohama, the Music & Medicine Conference in Vienna, and The Tavistock Institute in London. Past presentations include the Institute of Australasian Psychiatrists Conference (Sydney, 2006), the World Association of Infant Mental Health Congress (Paris, 2006 and Melbourne, 2004), Ninth Infant Mental Health Congress, Miyazaki, and Keio University Medical Society (Tokyo, 2005), World Congress of Music Therapy (Brisbane, 2005) and on various occasions for the Australasian Marcé Society and Australian Association of Infant Mental Health. Stephen is also known for his talks on meditation and Buddhism around Sydney.

Stephen maintains a connection with the University of Western Sydney, and served as a Board Member for Karitane, a health facility for mothers and their babies, from 2004 - 2007.

The biggest gift I gained from seeing Stephen was to learn, on a deep level, that my life is precious and awe-inspiring.

Michelle Fahy
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