Our Team

Lee Pagana

Director of Lifeskills Centre, Counsellor, Lifeskills Seminar Facilitator

Speciality:

• Conflict Resolution and Mediation
• EAP Counselling
• FIFO Counselling
• Critical Incident Response
• Personal Development Seminars- Couples, Individuals, Communication, Mental Health Awareness and many more.

Affiliations:

• ACA-Australian Counselling Association
• PCWA- Professional Counselling of Western Australia
• CBT Australia- Cognitive Behavioral Therapist of Australia
• EAPAA- Employment Assistant Program Association of Australia
• MHFA- Mental Health First Aid Instructor in the following courses:
1. The Standard Mental Health First Aid
2. Mental Health First Aid Refresher
3. Blended Workplace F2F
4. On line Workplace

Personal Information

After a turbulent beginning to my marriage, my husband and I started counselling and attended an intensive personal development seminar. This was a turning point in my life and when I decided to become a Counsellor. That was 30 years ago and today I am a registered Counsellor with many affiliations renowned for my openness and down to earth approach. Our marriage remains strong and we have not looked back.

I was the Founder of the “Desana Whole Health Clinic” in Wembley, Perth.

Desana was a Health Centre based on a holistic approach to health that brought together health practitioners such as GP’s-General Practitioners, Counsellors, Psychologists, Naturopaths and Herbalists. Desana also had treatment rooms for Collation and Ozone therapy.

I developed and co-facilitate the Lifeskills Seminar – an intensive program run over 4 days, every 6 weeks and have done so for over 25 years. The seminar has helped thousands of individuals and couples to take control of their lives and achieve a balance that they once thought they could not achieve. As the Lifeskills Australia director I was invited to facilitate in FMG Wellness Conferences 2012 to 2014 and I regularly attend conferences, run workshops and programs. Much of my time is taken up traveling to mine sites and handling critical incidents and other emergency situations but I still like to see clients for one on one counselling. I am also committed to continued professional development in order to deliver the best research-based therapies to our clients.

Life Skills Australia is partnered with private clients, community groups, education institutions and businesses across an array of areas. We are often called upon to service regionally located companies in the mining and construction industry. We deliver high quality, person-centered therapy, programs and workshops to employees, management and our community.

Personal Information

After ten years as a teacher and thirty-six years as a Social Worker, in various government, family support, private and corporate agencies, she still has a love for individual, couple, family and group therapy.

Denny has worked with a wide range of identified problems, a range of mental health illnesses, developmental issues, disabilities and the various transitional adjustments and communication problems which people experience, just in the course of a normal life. More and more now we are seeing quite complex trauma. This can either be in the realm of post traumatic stress or the chronic stress of dealing with a dysfunctional family, physical, emotional or sexual abuse, addiction and general difficulty in managing one’s mental health in a stressful world.

Denny reports a strong belief in kindness, sense of humour and never forgetting that we don’t fully understand the full context of what a person is living in, in that very moment. We will just do our best. Compassion for our fellow human beings and living things is paramount.

Personal Information

Diploma of Counselling 2017

Cert IV in Mental Health WAPHA 2018

Cert Business Studies 1987

Frank is a country boy at heart, born and bred in the WA Wheatbelt. He started facilitating programs in 2003 to help families, and a Founding Director of the Family Centre in Kalgoorlie (2000). Frank is also the W.A. Health Departments Mental Health Advocate for Kalgoorlie, a Counsellor with Lifeskills Australia and a volunteer with the Red Cross in Psychological First Aid. He has been providing peer support in the mining industry for the past 5 years, assisting Mining companies by building relationships with their employees and helping develope their Lifeskills and resilience, this includes conducting toolbox talks, Mental Health Presentations and on-site self-development workshops.