Counselling Services

Supporting you as an individual with any of the current life challenges or areas of personal self-development and growth you want to explore together. I collaborate with you to decide the focus of counselling and tailor the counselling process to your unique needs. I am experienced in supporting gender-diverse people, men, women and young people.

Groups of people seeking support, personal development or growth can receive group counselling together that is focused on a specific theme or topic. This can be a powerful way to share lived experience with others in a safe and confidential space.

I am a specialist trauma counsellor and have supported hundreds of women with the traumatic impacts of violence, abuse and childhood trauma. My approach is to put your psychological safety first and ensure you feel in control of the process.

I focus on the ways you survived and assist you through the stages of trauma healing. I will always believe, validate and affirm you as a victim-survivor.

I am passionate about supporting women and am inclusive of trans-women and gender-diverse people. I have managed and established women’s counselling services and have trained in feminist therapy and approaches. I bring a gender-aware lens that acknowledges the impacts of gender inequality on life experience and identity for you as a woman or trans-woman as we work through the challenges and needs you bring to counselling.

As a social worker, I have extensive training and experience supporting families, couples and groups. We are all relational beings and so much of life is experienced within relationships. I can support couples and families to work through and resolve challenges and move towards nourishing healthy and growing relationships. I’m unable to work with couples currently impacted by family violence.

As an accredited Mental Health Social Worker with the AASW (Australian Association of Social Workers), I offer external supervision and clinical supervision to health, community and mental health professionals.

I foster safe and collaborative spaces for professionals to share, grow and develop their skills and knowledge. I provide supervision, reflective practice, communities of practice and group supervision  to social workers, counsellors, therapists, youth and community workers, and people in the caring professions, offering support and confidential space.

My supervision facilitates critical reflection on practice, and professional development and builds on self-awareness, self-care, resilience and professional self-esteem. Critical reflection invites us to understand ourselves and those we support in more authentic and helpful ways, and offers the chance to consider the impacts intersecting oppression, diverse identities, various forms of bias and projection in our work and in our clients lives. Here are some of the things we might do together in supervision:

• Linking theory to practice
• Identifying professional development goals
• Reflecting on how the personal and professional intersect
• Ethical and values driven practice
• Intersectional feminist critical reflection
• What trauma-and violence-informed practice means
• Unpacking case studies and workplace scenarios
• Developing professional and clinical tools, strategies and skills

Group supervision is for professionals with mutual areas of practice, and interest or who want to share their professional experiences with others.