The decision to engage in therapy is a brave and commendable one. For those who allow me to join them in that journey, I endeavour to make it a safe, fun, and nurturing process of reflection and exploration. I employ a trauma-informed and strengths-focused approach to my practice, based on the belief that often what we call ‘symptoms’ are better understood as protective mechanisms that our minds and bodies develop to survive life’s stressors. For this reason, I like to begin therapy by aiding clients in understanding how their presentation makes sense given their background and present circumstances, and in doing so enhancing their ability to make positive and rewarding change from a place of self-awareness, self-compassion, and agency. I take a somatic (body-based) approach to symptom management, using skills from Polyvagal Theory, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) and other modalities. I also incorporate aspects of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). If you wish to address maladaptive or unhelpful narratives, beliefs, and attachment wounds, we will work together to create corrective experiences in the therapy room and in your personal life, that will help you to stretch and grow. I work with adults and young people aged 12+.

Skilled in clinically proven therapies including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) targeted to treat depression, generalised anxiety disorder, borderline personality disorder, C-PTSD and symptoms of trauma.

I am an accredited mental health social worker and trauma counsellor. I provide counselling and evidence based mental health interventions including EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation & Reprocessing) therapy. I have a strong interest in the treatment of trauma including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Complex PTSD, sexual abuse, sexual assault. I have worked with adults who have experienced the effects of childhood trauma and with adults who have been in abusive relationships. As with psychologists I use a range of interventions in helping people with mental health disorders, including the following focussed psychological strategies: • EMDR therapy • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) • Behavioural interventions • Relaxation strategies . Stress management • Psycho-education • Family therapy I have worked with issues including depression, anxiety, family dysfunction, carer issues, relationship issues, trauma, PTSD. I utilise a mix of therapeutic interventions including: EMDR, Family Therapy, Polyvagal Theory, Internal Family Systems, CBT, Mindfulness, Schema Therapy. I have worked for over 15 years in the public mental health sector with people experiencing serious mental illness (including young people with psychosis and in aged persons mental health). In recent years I worked in the community sector in family violence (undertaking family therapy with mothers and children), in private practice with Employee Assistance Program including Victoria Police, and as a trauma counsellor at a Sexual Assault Centre (public sector). I have post-graduate qualifications in Clinical Family Therapy and memberships with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) and the EMDR Association of Australia.