Trauma Support Providers

Professional Biography

At Somatic Psychotherapies, I offer Counselling & Trauma Informed Yoga Therapy to Individuals (including Children/Youth), Couples & Families with availability for weekday & weekend sessions online via Telehealth (Videolink or Phone) options, across Australia. I also provide Professional Clinical Supervision for health & non health related professionals from a trauma focused lens.

As an experienced therapist, I can assist you in exploring your struggles to manage experiences of trauma & its impacts. My aim is to support your current difficulties to restore balance, happiness & inner peace with various techniques of 'talk therapy' & somatic (mind/body) healing methods. I can also provide psychoeducation about the impacts of trauma, as well as teach emotional regulation skills to assist in coping with ongoing daily life stressors.

I provide a non-judgemental, supportive & equal service for all people including those with physical or intellectual disability, all ethnic groups, people identifying as LGBTI+, all forms of spiritual or religious beliefs including those who are recovering from exiting a cult group, & often ‘marginalised’ people such as sex workers, people who have committed crimes & people from ’other ‘minority’ groups.

In my career, I have accrued a range of experience in various clinical medical backgrounds, having worked as a nurse as well as serving in the Australian military, within the medical core & within restorative justice facilitation. I have also worked in the sex work industry, veterinary nursing, ambulance service, community-aged care assessments team, medical & pharmaceutical sales, held management positions & had various other medical based roles before training as a Counsellor, Trauma Informed Yoga Therapist & Professional Clinical Supervisor.

I work in the specialty areas of both family violence & sexual violence with clients who have been harmed, as well as clients who have caused the harm for many years.

It is my philosophy that successful counselling therapy plans utilise an eclectic approach based upon the foundation of Person-Centred Therapy (PCT). This therapy modality fundamentally involves using a conversational style listening patiently to you, always with empathy, genuineness & without judgement. I encourage honest discussion & feedback within our sessions so I can adjust my style to fit what you need.

I can utilise many ‘Talk Therapy’ methods including:
• Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• Animal Assisted Therapy
• Art Therapy
• Child Play Therapy (CPT)
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
• Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT)
• Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT)
• Emotional Focused Therapy (EFT)
• Gestalt Therapy
• Narrative Therapy
• Imaginal Exposure Therapy
• Solution Focused Therapy (SFT)
• Motivational Interviewing

Clients may also be supported through various Somatic Therapy (mind/body) modalities including:
• Brainspotting
• Emotional Freedom Therapy (EFT Tapping)
• Trauma Sensitive Yoga
• Trauma Informed Yoga
• Sensory Enhanced Yoga for Self Regulation & Trauma Healing
• Yoga Nidra
• Child Yoga Therapy
• Mindfulness
• Meditation
• Pranayama Breathwork

Because I am passionate about providing the best support I can to all my clients with their varied needs, I undertake ongoing training in various therapy modalities with a trauma informed focus, so that I am able to provide clients with a more bespoke way of working to suit the circumstances presented by the client in that moment. This allows me to provide very specific & focussed support as its needed, so I journey with you, meeting you where you are at in each session.

I am also able to support the following Victim Support agency and National Redress Scheme clients:
• Victims of Crime with Victim Assist QLD, Victims Services NSW, Victim Support ACT, Victim Support Agency VIC (including TAS).
• National Redress Scheme QLD, NSW, ACT, VIC & WA (including SA).

Whatever you are going through, know that there is hope - Let me help you find that hope.

Client Types

• Adult
• Couple
• Family
• LGBTIQ
• Child
• Adolescent