Dr. J. Warlow

John has been practicing as an Adult, Child and Family Psychiatrist, since 1990. He commenced developing the Christian Wholeness Framework in 1989. In 1994, he founded the Christian Wholeness Counselling Services. For ten years he directed the training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry for the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, Queensland.

John has had a broad range of clinical (assessment and treatment / therapy), experience. He assists children, adolescents and adults, with relationship problems ( including marriage and family), educational, behavioural, mood (depression and anxiety), personality, and psychiatric challenges. Coming from a broad Christian background, he specializes in integrating matters of faith and practice. His consulting, teaching and supervision skills have benefited professionals, counsellors and churches.

As the founder of the Christian Wholeness Counselling Services, John has a passion to see and facilitate the development of mental health professionals, who are Christians, becoming more integrated in their practice and also to be involved in assisting the church to become more appropriate and relevant to the needs of those around.

John was born in India in 1954, in a missionary family. He lived there for 10 years before moving to England. After finishing his schooling, he completed his medicine degree in Birmingham. While spending a year in Theological training, he met his Kiwi wife. He moved to New Zealand and specialized in Psychiatry. He completed his Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Melbourne & then Brisbane, Australia, where he has been living since 1990 with his wife Jill and five children.

John has a deep Christian faith. He has over the years worshipped with the Open Brethren, Wesleyans, Anglicans, Baptists, and is currently in a Pentecostal church. He seeks to be a follower of Jesus. His passion is Christian Wholeness.