Connections Healthcare Centre


Connections Healthcare Centre

Practitioners at this location

Alicia S

Psychologist

Alicia is a registered Psychologist with a warm, gentle and friendly nature. She is passionate about helping others work through the issues of day to day life, as well as challenging mental health problems. Alicia has worked with adolescents, adults and couples experience a wide-range of issues, including: anxiety, depression, relationship problems, self-esteem issues, trauma, faith and spiritual issues, and personality disorders. Alicia takes a non-judgmental approach to therapy and believes it can help enhance anyone’s life, no matter where they are at.
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Alison Watt

Counsellor

Alison provides a safe space for you to unpack the concerns you are experiencing and gain the life skills you need for the life you want to lead. With vast experience in working with adults, youth, children and families, Alison brings a respectful and compassionate perspective and enjoys helping her clients find healthy perceptions of themselves. Alison has extensive work and volunteer work experience with multicultural urban and rural communities, both locally and interstate. Paired with her Psychology Honours and qualifications in Psychology and Social Services, she is well-equipped in providing evidence-based practice. Married for 36 years, mother and grandmother, Alison is a versatile practitioner and a skilled listener and communicator. Alison is deeply respectful of the background and needs of her clients and protective of the environment they need to receive healing. (Associate member of the APS)
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Dr Allison King

Psychologist (Provisional)

Dr Allison R. King is a provisionally registered psychologist and experienced clinical psychotherapist who brings warmth, insight, and deep care to her work with clients across all stages of life. With over a decade of experience in Australia and Europe, her practice is grounded in a strong belief that healing happens in safe, respectful, and relational spaces. Her training includes a Doctorate in Psychotherapy, a Master of Science in Clinical Psychology (Distinction), a Postgraduate Certificate in Neuroscience and Psychology from King’s College London, and a Master of Business Administration focused on organisational behaviour. She is also a Swiss-licensed psychotherapist, and a member of the APS, BPS, and PSI. Allison works with adults, couples, adolescents, and families. Many of her clients are navigating challenges like burnout, trauma, anxiety, complex relational histories, identity transitions, or experiences of cultural displacement. She has particular expertise in working with neurodivergent clients (ADHD and autism), those recovering from gender-based violence, and individuals with refugee or migrant backgrounds. She also works closely with couples using principles from the Gottman Method. Her approach is trauma-informed, spiritually sensitive when requested, and deeply human. She integrates evidence-based modalities such as CBT, schema therapy, ACT, and psychodynamic and systemic therapies—always tailored to the person in front of her, not a textbook. Whether working through grief, navigating faith questions, or rebuilding after trauma, Allison meets her clients with gentleness, curiosity, and respect for their lived experience. Through her doctoral research, she developed the concept of Transformative Acculturation, a model that explores how people reshape identity and relationships after trauma and cultural change. This work continues to inform her writing, consultation, and therapeutic work. Allison brings a quiet confidence and genuine compassion to every session. Her goal is to help clients feel understood, regain clarity, and begin to move forward—whether that’s in their mental health, relationships, or inner sense of self.
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Jarrick Butshiire

Counsellor

Jarrick is dedicated to helping individuals navigate life's challenges and finding ways to thrive. With over a decade dedicated to working in education, He has cultivated a deep understanding of the unique challenges young people face. He has experience that honed his ability to foster care built on trust and listening. Jarrick also has a passion for theology and extensive experience in pastoral care, working with people of all ages and backgrounds to navigate their spiritual lives. He is passionate about helping individuals build resilience and hope. Jarrick provides support for those struggling with anxiety, stress, grief, trauma and spirituality. He’s here to listen, understand, and support individuals to overcome obstacles and resiliently engage in more fulfilling lives.
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Kerry Lucy

Counsellor

Kerry is a person centred counsellor who supports individuals aged 14 and over, as well as couples and families. She brings a warm, relatable presence and offers a space where clients can speak openly, feel heard without judgement, and explore their experiences at a pace that feels safe and respectful. For those who wish to integrate their Christian faith into the counselling process, she provides faith informed support that honours each client’s beliefs and values without assumption or pressure. Her professional background includes work within the education sector, where she offered counselling and emotional support to both students and staff. She also contributes to a not for profit pregnancy support organisation, providing compassionate, client centred care to individuals and families navigating sensitive and complex circumstances. In addition, her subcontracting experience across various settings has strengthened her ability to adapt to diverse organisational needs while maintaining ethical, professional, and relationally focused practice. Kerry’s approach is grounded in meeting clients where they are. She walks alongside them with patience and care, offering encouragement, practical tools, and therapeutic strategies to support healing, resilience, and clarity.
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Mr Paul Browne

Psychologist

Paul has 24 years of experience as a Psychologist. He has an authentic, gentle, patient, empathic, warm and calming nature that fosters a deepening sense of support, safety and engagement. He endeavor's to meet people where they are at while at the same time helping them explore and reconnect with the ‘heart’ of the deeper unresolved and often hidden core issues that impact and undermine all aspects of their wellbeing. He uses simple, down to earth language and examples that are very relatable in order to reduce the ‘mystery’ and complexity of unfamiliar conditions and concepts to enhance peoples understanding and build their willingness to open up further to confront and deal with the ‘root’ and underlying inward causes of their presenting issues rather than remaining solely focused on the outward symptoms. He has a unique ability to come alongside people in a respectful, nurturing and patient way in order to ‘walk with them’ at their pace in such a way that results in a greater depth and breadth of experiential exploration and understanding that contributes to positive change and healing that is more extensive, deeper and permanent. Paul has extensive experience in working with offenders and victims of Child Sexual Abuse, individually and in group settings. He has worked within a number of prisons, male and female, co-facilitating various short and long term group treatment programs. Years of invaluable personal and shared experiences have engrained within him a humility and appreciation for the diversity of experiences that influence and often unfortunately result in unique outcomes and difficulties with problematic issues such as anger, addictions (of all types), self harm, hopelessness, isolation, suicide, depression, anxiety, fear, trauma, self worth and love, faith and fatigue to name but a few. He comes with a quiet confidence knowing that if he could be helped and healed from his brokenness to become a better and more balanced person, then anyone can be helped. Paul is a Registered Psychologist and member of Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA). He has a Bachelor of Psychology from ECU and a Bachelor of Business, Agriculture from Curtin. He has spent three years at Bible College. He was brought up on a broad acre farm where he worked for many years developing his practical hands on approach to growing and fixing plants, livestock and machinery which he now continues in helping to grow and heal people.
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Mrs Janine Luzi

Counsellor

Janine is warm, genuine and open, with a passionate and committed approach to facilitating hope and restoration in individual lives. She has an integrative approach, according to individual needs, while working collaboratively, navigating through life’s difficulties across diverse cultural backgrounds. She works in a range of areas including trauma, abuse, addiction, grief and loss, anxiety, depression, identity and relationships.
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Mrs Katherine Callaway

Counsellor (Registrar)

Katherine is a psychologically informed counsellor who brings a warm integrative approach, drawing on modalities such as Person-Centred Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Positive Psychology, and Attachment Theory, tailored to meet the unique needs of each client. Katherine is diligent about creating a safe, respectful space where clients feel heard and supported. Katherine has experience in working with grief, trauma, anxiety and depression while always anchoring to a framework of hope and resilience. She has a particular passion for supporting individuals and couples navigating pregnancy-related loss and infertility. Katherine welcomes people of all backgrounds and beliefs, offering Christian counselling if desired. Outside of counselling, Katherine has a diverse professional background in ministry and early childhood care, working alongside families across schools, hospitals, childcare centres, and faith-based settings in both Australia and the United States. This experience informs her compassionate support for clients navigating life transitions, parenting challenges, grief, and the search for meaning. Katherine holds a Bachelor’s degree in Counselling and Psychology, an Advanced Graduate Diploma in Psychology, and is a registered member of both the Australian Counselling Association (ACA) and the Australian Psychological Society (APS).

Ms Denise Bath

Counsellor

Denise has 22 years of extensive experience counselling children and working with families in need. As a woman of faith, Denise, with God, joins clients on their healing journey to assist them to discover, accept and find solutions to resolve what is impacting them or their families. She is a genuine, resilient lady with a love and passion for working with children and families. Denise has a Bachelor in Social Science, Graduate Diploma in Human Service and Master of Arts in Human Service Counselling. She is a member of Australia Counsellors Association (ACA).
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Wendy Lim

Counsellor

“Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.” – Stephen Covey. Having journeyed through her own experiences of harm and trauma, Wendy has learned the crucial value of safety and respect within the therapeutic relationship. She recognises the courage of her clients in choosing to face their pain, and honours them with dignity and a sense of empowerment within the sacred places they want to explore. The path is not always easy to navigate, but Wendy is committed to walking alongside her clients with gentleness, patience, and compassion. Wendy has a Bachelor of Applied Social Science in Counselling, a Masters of Counselling Practice, and a Certificate in Trauma Stress Studies. She is a member of the Australian Counselling Association. She has helped clients work through issues of complex grief, loss, trauma, spiritual abuse, religious trauma, and domestic violence. She is holistic in her approach and uses an eclectic range of therapeutic practices, including Narrative, Sand Tray, Psychodynamic, and Polyvagal techniques. Born in Malaysia, grown up in Australia, and being married to a German man for the last 14 years has shaped Wendy to be aware and sensitive to the diversity of cultures and backgrounds in society.
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