ABOUT
How I came to
this work
As a deeply intuitive child, I was always sensitive to unspoken undercurrents. Early traumatic loss and a fractured family life marked my adolescence and early adulthood, and for a time I felt adrift. As a young adult, healing relationships came into my life for the first time — and within them, moments of grace. Subtle, exquisite experiences where something inside me opened, shifted, and rearranged itself. These experiences changed me and stirred an undeniable impulse to support others to be met in this way.
In my own life, I have known the joys and challenges of caring responsibilities, multilineal families, relationship separation, loss, and corporate and self-employment — experiences that enrich my work. Alongside this, I am influenced by conscious parenting, experiential and play-based learning, movement practices, nature connection, mindful sexuality, women’s wisdom traditions, somatic meditation, and internal parts-work. These philosophies and practices inform how I meet complexity and respond in the therapy space.
What matters to me most is authenticity and creativity, meeting experience as it is, and lightening the load through our collective humanity. I value shared laughter and warmth alongside depth, and I hold deep respect for the unique ways we each adapt to our experiences and legacies. Above all, I aim to offer a space where you feel met with tenderness, dignity, and loving presence — where you can arrive exactly as you are, and something new can emerge.
Trainings & Quality
I am a graduate of the Hakomi professional training, a somatic psychotherapy that understands healing as emerging within a relational field. Rather than imposing change, Hakomi supports the organic unfolding of transformation through present-moment experience, curiosity, and attuned contact.
Attention is given to safety, consent, and the practitioner’s own embodied presence. This supports co-regulation, strengthens self-compassion, and allows implicit patterns to be explored, so that new possibilities can arise.
As a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, I adopt this naturalistic approach to trauma resolution. Somatic Experiencing® (SE) is based on the nervous system’s innate capacity to restore balance after overwhelming experiences.
SE supports healing by allowing trapped survival energy and defensive responses to be integrated without re-living or re-enacting trauma. Through careful pacing, this work supports regulation, resilience, and a greater sense of safety and agency in the present.
I am a graduate of the NeuroAffective Touch® foundation training. NATouch is a relational approach that recognises physical contact as a foundational aspect of human development. When appropriate and fully consented to, therapeutic touch may support the repair of early experiences and relational patterns.
The focus is on attuned contact, tracking internal experience, and allowing new possibilities to emerge. Use of touch is guided by careful ethical consideration, clear boundaries, and respect for individual readiness.
I have trained with Kathy Kain, whose body of work centres on integrating therapeutic touch and nervous system regulation alongside other therapies, to resolve complex and developmental trauma.
This work moves beyond shock trauma to focus on early, pre-verbal, and developmental overwhelm and how it shows up physically and medically.
The foundation is building skills to support systemic regulation, and expanding our sense of relative safety and capacity to connect to internal experience.
Through mentoring, supervision, and ongoing learning, I continue to integrate what is most alive, ethical, and effective in service of the people I work with.
With a Master of Counselling & Psychotherapy, I am a Registered Clinical Counsellor and Registered Clinical Psychotherapist with the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (member no. 23513). I engage in ongoing clinical supervision with carefully chosen experts to support therapeutic effectiveness.
I regularly undertake professional development beyond minimum requirements and collaborate with other health professionals when appropriate and with consent. The work is held within clear ethical boundaries and a respect for each person’s autonomy, dignity, and lived context.
What others Experienced
