Natalie Pierssene Social Worker

Natalie is an accredited mental health social worker who has over 20 years of experience in both the private sector and public hospital settings. She has a keen interest in using the counselling relationship to create warmth and empathy to encourage her clients to feel safe enough to be able to create change. Natalie has extensive experience working with parents experiencing distress after the birth of a child, including postnatal depression, birth trauma and the loss of a child, and parenting concerns. She has a keen interest in supporting people of all ages around self-esteem, relationship challenges, depression and anxiety, and the effects of trauma. Some of the therapies Natalie uses are EMDR, Schema therapy, ACT, attachment-based approaches, and trauma-informed CBT. This list is ever-expanding as she finds new things to bring into the therapy room.