Individual Counselling, Coaching & Therapy
Brisbane & Online Australia-wide
Honouring bio-individuality, the mind-body connection & lived experience
Mental & Emotional Health Support
A safe space for reflection, contemplation & learning. Compassionately curious, non-judgemental, person centered, values based therapies and coaching. Working from attachment/relational, neurobiological and trauma informed perspectives. Skillfully combining somatic and talk therapies. Navigating transitions and unraveling and honouring each unique experience within humanistic, existential and systemic frameworks. Making links between our psychology and physiology. A truly integrated approach that meets you exactly where you are and explores where you want to go.
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Holistic assessment of and exploration of mood issues with deep compassion and steady support.
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Anxiety is not your enemy. It is a wise survival signal. Comprehensive assessment of physiological and psychological drivers of your unique anxiety. Holistic management plans.
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The story you tell yourself about yourself shapes your human experience. Let’s gently examine that story and consider whether it still belongs to you.
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Knowing yourself truly - not just conceptually.
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This is not the suppression of feeling but building your capacity to sit with difficult emotions without being swept up in them.
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This is not about being “calm” all the time. This work is about retraining a nervous system on high alert to recalibrate. The aim is to have a nervous system that is adaptable and flexible.
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These three challenges are intricately connected and beneath them all is very often the same question “Am I enough…Am I doing enough?
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Honouring what was, considering next steps and creating a vision for what could be.
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When everything feels urgent and overwhelming and nothing feels manageable.
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Seeking clarity about meaning, values, happiness and legacy?
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Affirming, non-pathologising support and education.
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Affirming, gentle, curious and educational support for wherever you are on the journey.
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Support to grieve, heal, make sense, overcome and ultimately, deepen your relationships, with yourself and with others.
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The mind and body are in constant conversation. Everything is connected. This is work that make ALL the difference.
My Holistic approach to supporting my clients to explore their emotional world and address mental health concerns draws on my extensive training and background in a range of different therapies and my broad experience across the lifespan. From my earliest studies in nursing and mental health care, I felt aligned with humanistic and attachment theories and these frameworks continue to provide the foundation for my client engagement along with a strong grounding in neuroscience/neurobiology and a trauma informed lens.
My practice seeks to create a safe space for people to explore and make greater sense of their thoughts, feelings, experiences and relationships whilst developing a stronger and healthier sense of self. Increasing reflective capacity and realising one’s own capabilities and creativity are often goals within this work. What I am most passionate about is supporting clients to find their voice and move towards living as their most authentic self.
My holistic counselling style is gentle, intuitive and client-centred and thus pulls from my extensive therapeutic toolbox, allowing me to tailor sessions that are individualised to meet each client’s unique needs. I naturally take a conversational approach to my sessions however I can be analytical, focussed and respectfully direct where indicated. I am also open-minded, playful and completely non-judgmental. I wholeheartedly believe in creating strong connections with my clients and in sharing some of my own experiences and vulnerabilities in supporting others.
Somatic approaches are woven into my sessions with the aim of increasing nervous system adaptability, building resilience and cultivating greater connection, by integrating the unconscious material of the body with the conscious mind.
Providing education, facilitating investigations and supporting lifestyle changes and interventions around nutrition, gut health, hormonal health and sleep health is an integral component of my coaching when working with clients who experience issues in relation to mood, anxiety, neurodevelopmental diversity, and other cognitive or mental health concerns.
Grief & Loss
Compassionately offering comfort and support during periods of transition by providing a safe space to reflect, feel & share. Exploring writing, story telling & other creative processes that support this unavoidable and life changing human experience. Sitting with discomfort, heartbreak, adversity and loss whilst nurturing sources of strength and resilience. Honouring the relationship and the significance and personalised nature of the loss. Connecting with faith, holding on to hope & gently moving forward into new realities.
Five pillars anchoring my practice
Holistic
You are not a diagnosis, a symptom or just one chapter of your history. You are a whole person - with a body that carries memory, a nervous system shaped by experience, relationships that have left their mark and a life that exists in rich complexity, well beyond the confines of these sessions. This work honours all of you.
Integrative
No single modality holds the full truth for any person. Drawing on an extensive therapeutic toolbox, this work moves fluidly between frameworks and across protocols in service of what you actually need. My practice is agile and flexible, rather than being prescriptive.
Innovative
Good clinical work is not static. It draws on existing and emerging research, evolving understanding of the interconnectedness of mind and body, and respect for each unique human experience. My practice offer a genuine willingness to work in ways that fall outside the conventional therapeutic frame, when it is safe and when it serves best.
Dynamic
Sessions are responsive, rather than scripted. What you bring shapes what happens. The work moves with you, through the difficult terrain, the unexpected turns, the moments of insight and the ones that resist resolution. Nothing here is pre-determined. Anything is possible.
Personalised
Bio-individuality is not just a concept- it’s a commitment. Your history, your nervous system, your values, and the particular shape of what you carry and what you are reaching toward are the starting point. There is no generic map. We build one together, and it belongs entirely to you.
