How I Work in Therapy

My approach is trauma-informed, collaborative, and tailored to you. Therapy may be brief and focused on immediate concerns, or longer-term to address deeper issues and long-standing patterns. We begin by building a safe, trusting relationship and then work together to develop insight and strategies that work towards your goals and life.

I work in person and via telehealth.

My approach focuses on:

  • Fostering capacity to better manage physical reactions to situations and “triggers”;

  • Building strategies and tools to consciously make change; and

  • Overcoming unconscious patterns and behaviours that are seemingly impossible to change.

 I am experienced in a range of evidence-based therapies, and will collaboratively tailor her approach to each individual and their specific needs. These include:

  • Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) – a method that helps to reduce distress associated with traumatic memories.

  • Attachment-based approaches – exploring how past relationships shape current patterns and building healthier ways of connecting.

  • Parts work – to understand how our past experiences shape our internal world, and to identify and reshape lifelong patterns causing  challenges in relationships and daily life.

  • Motivational Interviewing (MI) – supporting you to strengthen motivation and commitment to change.

  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) – practical tools for changing unhelpful thinking and behaviour cycles.

  • Mindfulness-based approaches – learning to stay present and reduce the impact of worry and rumination.

  • Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) – cultivating self-kindness and reducing shame and self-criticism.

  • Psychodynamic approaches – exploring unconscious patterns that influence your emotions, behaviours, and relationships.

I also draw on polyvagal therapy by focusing on the nervous system's physiological states of safety, danger, and shutdown.

I am an accredited EMDR practitioner.

“Only when we are in a calm physiological state can we convey cues of safety to another.”
― Stephen W. Porges

Rebates and Registrations

·       Medicare rebates

·       Private health insurance rebates

·       Australian Clinical Psychology Association (ACPA)

·       Eye Movement Desensitisation and Re-processing Association of Australia

·       Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)

"Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others."
– Christopher Germer