Trauma Support Providers

Professional Biography

Tricia has been a qualified counsellor for over fifteen years and holds registration as an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker (AMHSW). In this time Tricia has worked for government and non-government services providing therapeutic support to families and children.

In 2019 Tricia commenced private practice on the Lower North Shore of Sydney.
Tricia uses a range of modalities that are applied through trauma-informed care.
Trauma-informed care is a strengths-based framework that explores a person’s experience and how they have been impacted.

The key principles that underpin her work with people include:

Safety | Creating a safe space for the participant to engage in counselling.
Trust | Providing clear and consistent information
Choice | Providing options of support and care
Collaboration | Counsellor and participant working together in partnership; supporting parents or care givers when their child/ren is engaged in counselling.
Empowerment | Building upon a person’s strengths

Tricia brings forth a wealth of knowledge and experience in working with people that have experienced relational complex trauma and through a person-centred approach adapts the counselling methodology to best meet an individual’s wants.
Each modality is applied to enrich the person’s experience of counselling as considered suitable on presentation of the person’s needs.

Modalities used include:
• Internal Family Systems
• Emotion Freedom Therapy
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
• Narrative Therapy
• Compassion Focused Therapy
• Solutions Focused Therapy
• Interpersonal Therapy
• Play Therapy

In addition to Tricia’s individual work with people, Tricia has also developed psycho education groups, women’s therapy groups and children’s therapy groups that are run across the Lower North Shore and Northern Beaches areas.

Tricia offers clinical supervision to social workers and community workers, including child protection workers from the Department of Communities and Justice. She teaches undergraduates of the Bachelor of Social Work and Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of New South Wales.

Client Types

• Child
• Adolescent
• Adult