Trauma Support Providers

Professional Biography

I have a focus within my work on trauma, crisis, addictions, eating disorders, obesity, grief and loss (including adoption, foster care, and bereavement) and work with all presenting issues and symptoms that arise within the client work.

My philosophy is to work together with each client to assist them to achieve their desired goals in a calm, safe and positive way. Underlying issues often play a significant role in what and how we feel. I use a combination of Psychotherapy, Brainspotting™, Animal Assisted Therapy, Ego States and Parts Therapy (IFS), Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing - EMDR, Trauma Informed Therapy, Brain Based Therapies, Somatic Trauma Therapy, Expressive Arts Therapy including Drumming and Hypnotherapy to assist in identifying and working with any underlying issues.

I work in an integrative way that empowers and supports adaptive coping skills that see individuals as not only capable of surviving but thriving through celebrating resilience and self compassion and empathy for self and others. The neurobiological psychotherapies that I am trained in and use do not rely on talk therapy and allow individuals to enter into their healing work without the need to tell their story or their trauma history.

My therapy approach is underpinned by a Trauma Informed Framework and I use advanced neurobiological psychotherapies (Brainspotting, EMDR, Somatic Trauma Therapy) that integrate and combine with talk therapies, expressive therapies, body centred - somatic psychotherapy and trauma specific and trauma informed therapies to support clients to make meaning in a way that allows healing and promotes living a more pleasant life.

I am passionate about professional development and I recognise that I am a training enthusiast by attending trainings, workshops and conferences within Australia and Internationally to ensure that my knowledge is consistently deepened and my skill set is fine-tuned and integrated. I undertake experiential learning in all areas that I am trained in as I consider it is important to have a personal experience of the intervention and therapy as a client before I work as a therapist in that method or modality.

Supervision is part of my professional requirements and I am also a Clinical Supervisor of therapists. I see supervision as more than being a part of my membership requirements it is about self care and professional development and ensuring that we are working to provide the best that we can to our clients.

I offer face to face, single sessions, intensive sessions, group healing work, and Skype or Zoom sessions.

I welcome client phone calls or emails and I am happy to answer your questions and explore if I am the right therapist for your needs. It is important to have a sense of trust, safety, to be heard, understood, and listened to - without the need or pressure to make an appointment.

Please call me - I welcome your call and look forward to being of assistance and service.

Client Types

• Adolescent
• Adult
• Groups
• LGBTIQ