I didn't set out to work this way. My clients led me here.

 

I trained the way most psychologists do — CBT, ACT, interpersonal therapy, all three with honours. I was good at it. But somewhere along the way, working with people carrying complex trauma, attachment wounds, eating disorders, the weight of childhoods that never felt safe — I kept hitting the same wall.

The brain was making sense of things. The body was still bracing.

Traditional models weren't built for that gap. So I went looking for what was.

 

The path since then

 

Nearly three decades of practice. A deliberate, sometimes uncomfortable journey into the experiential — equine-assisted psychotherapy, somatic therapy and parts work, vagal toning, breathwork, psychedelic-assisted therapy. Not to collect modalities, but because each one taught me something the last one couldn't.

What I've landed on is this: healing is relational, it's embodied, and it's rarely linear. The nervous system doesn't respond to insight alone. It responds to experience, repetition, and felt safety — in the room, in the body, in relationship.

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That's what I build with my clients. Not a programme. A process.

 

A little more about me

 

I live on the Sunshine Coast with my three daughters and more animals than is probably sensible — and I wouldn't have it any other way. Horses are my daily reset. Time in nature, good books, and real conversations with people I love are what keep me regulated enough to do this work well.

I bring all of that into the room. The lived experience, the long training, and the genuine belief that you are not too much, not too broken, and not too late.

 

The credentials (since you asked 😊)

 

Memberships Australian Psychological Society | AHPRA Full Accreditation

Academic Qualifications BA Psychology (Cum Laude) · BA Hons. Psychology (Cum Laude) · MA Counselling Psychology (Cum Laude)

Clinical Training Cert. Somatic EMDR · Somatic Parts Work Levels 1–3 · Equine-Assisted Mental Health Practitioner · Trauma-Informed Stabilisation Treatment Levels 1–3 · Cert. Vagal Toning · Breathless Instructor Level 1 · Breathless Master Instructor (in progress)