About

No matter where our stories have taken us, we all just want to be ok, to feel like we can cope, find connection and meaning.

Welcome

Being brave with a trusted listener can help us process life’s challenges and move through the strong emotions that can make us feel like the ground is giving way.

I’d love to support you to heal, grow and learn. I see clients in-person in Marrickville and offer online sessions for clients Australia wide. You can get in touch here to make a counselling appointment or here if you’d like a free 15 minute intro call. 

No matter where our stories have taken us, we all just want to be ok, to feel like we can cope, find connection and meaning. Counselling and psychotherapy has been a powerful guide for me in this way. My role is to offer that to you too.

Subscribe to my weekly email, How to be Ok, here. It’s about ways to, be ok, when life feels big. 

You can read my eBook on leaving religious fundamentalism here, and I write regularly on Substack. You can also find me at The Religious Trauma Collective.

And if you’d like to see where it all began, you can read my blog on leaving a career in the International Aid sector, here.

Counselling & Psychotherapy

Counselling is a form of talk therapy that allows you to talk freely about areas in your life where you are feeling stuck or in pain. It’s a guided, safe and confidential space.

Sometimes talk therapy is enough, other times, especially with chronic stress and trauma, incorporating psychotherapy tools such as intentional movements or, somatics, are a powerful way to heal your nervous system and experience a shift. This is called embodied processing. The work of nervous system healing has been transformative for many of my clients and for me in my own healing.

Havening Techniques® is an evidence based modality I work with for embodied processing of trauma and limiting self beliefs. We can talk about these options together. One thing I know for sure is, we can better work with the mind as a resource when we learn to reconnect with our bodies. Many of us for the first time since we were children.

I’m an integrative therapist; as well as the above, I love Narrative Therapy and also work with Trauma-Focussed Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) tools.

I’m a member of the Australian Counselling Association (ACA) which describes counsellors as ‘professionals who provide clinical treatment through evidence-based psychological interventions.

That may sound lofty, but in essence, my approach is person centred and my role is to come alongside and support you to grow and heal.

Pricing

In-Person & Online/Telehealth

Each session is 60 minutes
$ 159
  • Confidential & Safe Space
  • Marrickville In-Person
  • Australia/NZ-Wide Online
A Little more

ways you can work with me.

I support therapists wanting to know more about the big topic that is religious trauma and, people experiencing it themselves. 

I work with people on nervous system regulation & recalibration. SOMA Sessions are an introduction to this way of working and understanding your unique nervous system.

I walk with people through trauma healing. Our bodies know how to heal from a broken arm and from trauma. Havening techniques® is a beautiful way to bring these together. 

I offer online courses to provide accessible and flexible learning for those seeking to understand and heal from Religious Trauma. 

What I wish my therapist knew about Religious Trauma is for therapists wanting language and consolidated resources for working with clients who have experienced religious trauma. It includes my own story, The Sentimental Non-Believer.

Freedom from Religious Trauma is for those who have experienced the pain of disconnection from faith and / or faith communities and are seeking healing. It’s the course I needed as the ground gave way beneath me. It’s loaded with ways to understand what you’re going through, tools for grounding and settling yourself when emotions feel big, and ways to rebuild community and spirituality.

Find out more here.

Soma Sessions are a one-off 90min summer offering, (Dec-Feb) focussing on increasing your capacity to feel joy & ease.

Soma means living body.

We’ll go through a 15min Havening Techniques® exercise, map your unique nervous system and look at grounding tools that work best for you. When we lean towards goodness, we have greater ability to cope when things get hard.

Come away with a greater sense of internalised safety. For both existing & new clients.

Book in your session here. Online & In-person.

Havening techniques® also known as Havening Touch, create a safe haven, a healing environment in the brain.

Repetitive movements that you do yourself – you can choose from rubbing your hands together, downward shoulder strokes, strokes above the eyebrows and then action of wiping away tears – can ground and centre us.

When done in a guided way, while naming emotions and doing exercises to distract the brain, these can also result in the memory centre of our brain filing distressing events where they belong, in the past. Not as live events crashing into the present and causing distress.

If you named your reactivity at a 9 or a 10 before the exercise, this process can take it down to 0. And it stays there. Here’s an illustration of how.

You can book a Havening session or get in touch to find out more about this powerful modality, here.

Grab a coffee & join me on Substack

E-Book

The Sentimental Non-believer cover page

The Sentimental Non-Believer

The Sentimental Non-Believer is my story of a life of faith, the lament of religious trauma, the disillusionment that can set in when the ground gives way beneath us. It’s about loving and leaving God. Spoiler alert, it has a beautiful ending.