Hello there... I firstly want to express my compassionate heart, that you are searching for help. My compassion and love for the fragile humanity within us all - is what drives my therapy work. ​When therapy is done with compassion, skillful knowing, education, and professionalism, it provides the environment for human change. I've watched this occur again and again, throughout the last few decades of working with people. Emotional pain and mental health are complex and arise through many contexts.  Trauma, emotional and childhood abuse, relationship dysfunctions, family patterns, and other factors all play a part in the causation of psychological unwellness.  My goal for you is to provide the space to work through these patterns and traumas - often to a new place of being with yourself and others with peace and awakening.   Listening is an active, wholistic process, requiring a huge repertoire of understanding of the human psyche.  That's why talking with your family or a friend will often not feel the same as talking with someone who is trained and skilled to be there for YOU completely.  We live in a complex relational world where our relationship with ourselves and significant others, dominates our minds.  Our ability to feel safe, to have success, to feel loved and have our needs met, and to feel emotional stability and well-being - fundamentally arrives through healthy relationships.   Paradoxically, we often spend our time side-stepping the needs and problems within these important relationships.   Why do we do this?  Well, this is where I can help guide you! By slowly and compassionately taking the time for you to unpack YOUR world, we can begin to make sense of the narratives, patterns, and traumas that have a way of creating stuckness.   Life has a way of drawing you toward what you need! It drew me to this work for my own healing of course (as it always does). I have worked in therapy with individuals, couples, and families for over 25 years.  ​ My work combines many tools including family systems therapy, narrative, voice dialogue, etc. I work with many different tools to help you unravel patterns and tease out what is possibly dissociated, dysregulated, unresolved, unknown and unhealed. bringing consciousness to what is unconscious alone can make an incredible impact on your energy and wellbeing. ​ I work with complex trauma, grief, childhood abuse and trauma, relationships, children, and systemic family therapy. ​ Prioritizing your emotional and psychological well-being is what governs my work. I began my career as a Naturopath, remedial therapist, nutritionist, and breath therapist and gradually trained over many years.  I now work solely as a psychotherapist and counsellor. I use experiential therapies such as emotionally focused therapy, systemic family therapy, narrative therapy, sandplay therapy, voice dialogue and hypnotherapy among other therapeutic tools.  I  have maintained practices throughout Sydney, The Southern Highlands, and now in the beautiful South Coast, NSW.   Often a crisis is a catalyst for seeking therapy, but it can also be the desire and need to unravel inner emotional and psychological experiences within a healing and confidential space.