My path - a Lifelong Practice

My hearts work is to deeply understand and sensitively respond to suffering, adversity and relational harm. I have now spent two decades in ‘not-for-profit’, community organisations and private practice contexts across South East Queensland dedicated to listening, learning with, and responding to those of us who have inherited and sustained complex trauma. These people are my great teachers and have contributed to the depth of insight I now bring to my work.

As a Clinical Member of the Psychotherapy & Counselling Federation of Australia, I bring eight years of academic training through a Master of Psychotherapy & Counselling, Master of Narrative Therapy & Community Work, and specialized post-graduate study in Childhood Learning & Development. My background in Peace and Conflict Studies and Community Development further enriches my understanding of complex human experiences. I have personally experienced the way good therapy has and continues to transform the relationship I have with myself, others and life. Integrated together, my personal, professional and academic experience equip me to offer steady companionship to those seeking sanctuary for healing, transformation and embodied wisdom to emerge.

Through a weave of practices including somatic contemplations, narrative therapies and creative processes I can work with you to bring gentle awareness to areas of life that need care, attention, and re-negotiation. It is my labour of love and deep honor to be able to welcome and accompany individuals, families and groups as we shape change, nurture healing and prepare the conditions we need to grow more compassionate worlds together.

Qualifications

• Clinical Registration with Psychotherapy & Counselling Federation of Australia

• Master of Psychotherapy & Counselling

• Master of Narrative Therapy & Community Work

• Bachelor of Peace and Conflict Studies & Political Science

• Post Graduate Certificate Community Development

• Post Graduate Certificate Childhood Learning & Development

Sample of Additional Professional 
Development Training

• Body, Heart & Mind Integration - Neuroaffective Touch

• Trauma Informed Care - Blue Knot Foundation

• Neurobiology of Complex Trauma - Australian Childhood Foundation

• Attachment & Parenting - Circle of Security

• Specialist family violence, coercive control and sexual abuse trainings

• Narrative bush therapy approaches

• Child therapy and play based approaches

• As a lifelong learner, I continue to deepen my skills through ongoing personal therapy, professional development, supervision and collaborative practice.

“If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together” Lilla Watson