Trauma Support Providers

Professional Biography

Specialising in supporting people who have experienced trauma, Tricia is a qualified psychotherapist with over 12 years of experience counselling children, adolescents, and adults in paediatric, educational, mental health, and trauma recovery settings. In the last 6 years, she has worked extensively with survivors of childhood sexual assault and family violence, some of whom have complex mental health presentations including C-PTSD and Dissociative Identity Disorder.

Trauma not only impacts our emotional and cognitive experiences, it is often experienced physically in the body, as our nervous system activates autonomic defensive responses to protect us from further physical/emotional/relational injury/harm when a perceived threat/trigger is present. Through her personal and professional experience, Tricia has gained a profound appreciation of the interconnected nature of our mental, emotional, physical, and energetic bodies; and how we are impacted by our relationships with one another and our environment. This has led to her commitment to work holistically to support the body’s native intelligence coming into balance and harmony, so as to facilitate healing and transformation that deepens the experience of innate aliveness, self-empowerment, freedom and joy.

Tricia's clinical practice is supported by extensive professional training, ongoing supervision and personal therapy. She is continuously expanding her knowledge and refining her skills, and the modalities she offers now include humanistic therapy, Eye Movement Desensitisation & Reprocessing (EMDR), Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (Level 2), Havening Techniques, Art Therapy (Masters in Art Therapy), play therapy/Theraplay, and Tension & Trauma Release Exercises (TRE). These modalities are informed by leading-edge research, a rich understanding of trauma and early attachment disruptions, and/or age-old practices based on ancient wisdom that are gaining increasing recognition from emerging scientific evidence.

Tricia’s style is warm, respectful, compassionate, collaborative, and creative. She honours her client’s unique experience and innate capacity to heal and grow, and she creates the space for them and their nervous system to do so at their own pace, while supporting them to strengthen their internal and external resources, including techniques to modulate nervous system dysregulation. Tricia invites mindfulness and curiosity in her sessions whilst exploring issues/challenges collaboratively and creatively, with a focus on her client’s cognitive, emotional, and somatic experience during the process.

Tricia’s intention is to provide a safe therapeutic container for individuals to transform their challenges within an attuned relationship, that results in a deep experience of wholeness, wellbeing and a life that is truly fulfilling.

Client Types

• Child
• Adolescent
• Adult