Facilitating wisdom and insight into life. Helping to achieve ongoing happiness, well being and success.
 


ABout ME


I have been a registered psychologist over 20 years and been in private practice for over 15. Apart from private practice, I have mostly worked in the Non-profit and Mental Health Hospital settings, primarily in the areas of Trauma and acute Mental illness. For over 20 years I been providing professional development training on a variety of topics from Stress Management & Occupational Mental Health and Safety, Mindfulness, Trauma & Vicarious Tramatisation. My private practice work is currently utilising Telehealth and is therefore available to all locations.

I have over 10 years experience as a board approved AHPRA supervisor. I have completed advanced training in CBT, Acceptance and Commitment therapy, Narrative and Existential Therapy, EMDR, Motivational Interviewing, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and Mindfulness. I am also a Yoga teacher and trainer with accreditation & experience in Trauma Sensitive Yoga.

I strongly believe in a collaborative approach to therapy to ensure that approach that is used, the areas that are covered and the overall pace of the therapy is tailored specifically to your needs. You should come away from your very first session with a much stronger idea of what is possible.

I am also psychologist with lived experience of trauma and mental illness. Including alcohol, drug use and criminal behaviour as a teenager, as well as later vicarious traumatisation and PTSD as a psychologist working with Torture Victims in long term Immigration detention. Most importantly I have experienced traumatic growth from my mental illness and believe I am a more effective therapist and human being from living and growing through my experiences and undertaking my own therapy. My ideal client is someone willing to work holistically on all levels of their life to achieve a resilience and growth that not only promotes a deeper wisdom and insight into life but that also encourages genuine attitude and lifestyle changes that help achieve ongoing happiness, well being and success.
 

 

Courage starts with showing up
And letting ourselves be seen.

Brene Brown


Therapy

  • Anxiety disorders and phobias

  • Borderline / EU Personality Disorders

  • Recovery from trauma (PTSD & CPTSD)

  • Depression

  • Emotional regulation & Distress tolerance

  • Interpersonal Effectiveness

  • Workplace Stress Management

  • Addictions

 

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again...

Theodore Roosevelt


SUPERVISION

I can provide supervision and mentoring to counsellors and therapist to help them achieve their full potential as agents of transformation in the lives of others.

Undergoing supervision with me will not only help you to facilitate a process to meet your own personal and professional responsibilities, it will also support and challenge you to achieve a greater insight and understanding of your own unique potential and capacity for meaningful presence that will enable you to achieve happiness and success.

 
 

From the polyvagal theory perspective, social behavior is an emergent property of the phylogenetic development of the autonomic nervous system.

Stephen Porges


Professional DEVELOPMENT
 

I have expertise and experience in providing training and development and  management consulting in the following areas:

  • Stress Management & Occupational Mental Health & Safety

  • Trauma

  • Vicarious Trauma and Prevention Policy

  • Imposter Syndrome

  • Positive Psychology & Approaches to Happiness

  • Mindfulness

  • Stress Management

  • Yoga for Trauma & Somatic Relaxation Strategies