Trauma Support Providers

Professional Biography

Welcome, my name is Chele, and I offer Psychotherapy & Counselling for Burnout, Breakdown, & Trauma.

I am a clinically registered therapist with PACFA & CCAA and my work is grounded in trauma-specific psychotherapy. I work primarily with complex developmental trauma, sexual and institutional abuse, and the ambiguous layers of trauma that often shape burnout, breakdown, and a lost sense of Self.

Many people arrive feeling confused about why life feels so heavy or overwhelming when they are doing their very best to cope. Often these experiences emerge from trauma that unfolded slowly across relationships, families, institutions, or cultural systems where a person’s reality was minimised, misunderstood, or left without recognition. Within therapy we begin to gently explore how these experiences have shaped the ways the body, mind, and relational self organise around protection, survival, and meaning.

I help those who are feeling overwhelmed, overburdened, exhausted, or lost; those who wish to untangle from the chaos or confusion, the hopelessness or helplessness by finding a sense of relief from deep within. Often this work involves gently exploring the protective patterns that once supported survival yet now leave a person feeling stuck, small, or disconnected. A relief that reflects a relational being held in dignity, worth, and warmth.

I am based on Brisbane's Southside in Sunny Queensland, Australia and offer psychotherapy & counselling based in a psychodynamic and somatic approach informed by contemporary trauma theory and relational neurobiology.
This is an approach where I join with you in a journey toward reconnecting you with your sense of Self (identity-significance), Others (relationship-communication), and with the World that surrounds you (meaning-purpose).

Together we attend to the ways experience becomes organised across sensation, perception, and interpretation so that new meanings and possibilities can slowly emerge within the safety of relationship.

Burnout, Breakdown, and Trauma may look like:
- Situational or Relational Trauma
- Ambiguous Trauma
- Familial / Relational Breakdown
- Lost Sense of Self / Impacts of Mental Illness
- Professional Burnout
- Parent / Carer Burnout
- Neurodivergent Burnout
- Complex developmental trauma
- Impacts of sexual, relational, or institutional abuse
- Experiences connected to Victims Assist or other justice processes.

My work is somatic, dynamic, and process-orientated. It unfolds within our unfolding relationship and through conversation, presence, and compassionate curiosity as we begin to understand how your experiences have shaped the ways you relate to yourself, to others, and to the world around you.

You can find out more about me here:
https://cheleyntema.com/services/

Client Types

• Adult
• LGBTIQ