About the Founder

Christine Sutherland is a behavioural counsellor who has a counselling and training background of over 30 years, with a passion for research and development of innovations in training and therapy. She has been responsible for pioneering and developing neuro-linguistic and neuro-somatic therapy applications suitable for clinical and corporate services.  Her books have been published throughout the Western world by McGraw-Hill and throughout the Arab world by Jarir.  Her academic work has been peer-reviewed and published in the Temple University journal Frontier Perspectives.

Christine is the CEO and founding director of The Lifeworks Group, and was responsible for the development of an innovative group treatment program for clinical depression, subjected to experimental trial in December 2000. Christine was also responsible for the "Get a Life" program for schools, subjected to experimental trial in April-May 2000, and a treatment program for unrelieved chronic pain, subjected to experimental trial in October 2001.

In her work as an internationally-recognised NLP trainer, Christine has developed a training program for Practitioner Certification the content of which is in advance of the current world standard and which is also available as an on-line distance learning program.

Christine is also a co-founder of BMSA International, a multi-lingual on-line resource for medical practitioners and other licensed health professionals, dedicated to bringing the best of modern research directly into supervised clinical practice.

This is in line with her commitment to bring new developments in health, well-being, communication techniques and human performance within the reach of as many people as possible.

Early in 2003, Christine founded Speed Business Networking as a result of many years' investigation into the strategies of high-performing companies.  To her frustration, she could not find a single business organisation which assisted SME's to network using proven strategies.  Combined with her desire to invest the small business community with higher level management skills, this frustration led to a concept which would integrate better networking practices with practical business development support the like of which which had never been seen before in Australia.

Just recently Christine added another business to The Lifeworks Group portfolio, RecruitmentHeaven.Com, an innovative on-line jobsearch facility which provides business development services to recruitment agencies, as well as a free jobsearch facility and free job advertising for employers and recruitment agencies.

On a personal note, Christine lives in Perth with her husband John and dog Tarzan, is a mother of 2 children and 2 step-children, and recently became a grandmother for the first time. She is a keen tennis player who will use any excuse whatsoever to take to the court. Her major fault is that she is a tragic fan of technology-based science fiction.

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Publications (click to view)

Sutherland, C. (2006, 2nd Ed) Resolving Depression:  Usually Without Medication, Western Australia: The Lifeworks Group Sutherland, C. (2002, 2nd Ed) Unlimited Confidence & Charisma! Fast Track to Personal Power, Perth, Western Australia: The Lifeworks Group (Out of print) Sutherland, C. (2001) The Lifeworks Joy Inventory - A Positive Instrument for Measuring Depression. Perth, Western Australia: The Lifeworks Group (Available free of charge only to licensed health care providers.) Sutherland, C. (2001) NLP in 10 Days – Handbook to Practitioner Certification Training in Neuro-linguistic Programming. - Perth, Western Australia: The Lifeworks Group (Currently being updated for 4th edition.) Sutherland, C. (2001) Neuro-somatic Treatment for Depression: A Preliminary Report on a Group Treatment Program. Perth, Western Australia: The Lifeworks Group (pdf) Sutherland, C. (2001) A Neuro-somatic/Neuro-linguistic Approach to Improve Behavioural and Academic Performance. Perth, Western Australia: The Lifeworks Group (pdf) Sutherland, C. (2001) A Neuro-somatic/Neuro-linguistic Approach to Chronic Unrelieved Physical Pain. Perth, Western Australia: The Lifeworks Group (pdf) Sutherland, C. (2002) Double Your Sales in 30 Days – A Revolutionary Approach to Selling and to Life. Perth, Western Australia: The Lifeworks Group (Superseded by "Take Your Team to the Top") Sutherland, C. (2002) Beat Cravings, Shift Fat! Perth, Western Australia: The Lifeworks Group

For other publications please see www.bmsa-int.com.