Profiles
Dinah Buchanan
OTG Founder & Retreat Facilitator
M.Couns, Grad Dip Gest Th, Grad Dip Spiritual Direction, PACFA Registered
Dinah is the founder of Opening To Grace and facilitator for the ‘Opening to Grace’ Healing Retreats. She is a Gestalt Psychotherapist, Spiritual Director, Clinical Educator and Group Facilitator. She has offered personal / spiritual development and therapeutic services for over 25 years on the North Coast, Sydney & the Central Coast. She has also been a Gestalt Trainer & Counselling Skills Educator for the past 20 years. Dinah’s particular focus includes personal / spiritual growth, depression / anxiety and grief / bereavement.
Dinah has a passion for assisting others to discover their inner strengths, move through difficulties, transform their lives and realise their full potential. She has a special interest in understanding psychological crisis through a spiritual lens. Her particular joy is to accompany others on their own personal and spiritual journey, wherever that takes them.
She currently has a private practice in Sydney and on the Central Coast of NSW and works with Individuals, couples and groups.
“It gives me great delight to see others open to the possibilities that this journey has to offer. As the whole is greater than the sum of the parts, so the intangible ‘more’ awaits us …”
- Available for Personal Therapy, Clinical Supervision, Gestalt Spiritual Direction, training & development
- Springfield, Central Coast, NSW
- Contact: 0439 752 710 or email at dinahbuchanan18@gmail.com

Barry Buchanan
OTG Co-Facilitator
Barry is the co-founder and co-facilitator for the ‘Opening to Grace’ Healing Retreats. He has completed studies in Community Services/ Case Management / Theology / Gestalt Therapy. He also has an extensive background in the business and management world. Barry has a particular interest in combining spirituality with Gestalt principles and the powerful transformation that can occur through this medium.

OTG Founder & Retreat Facilitator