About

I am a Registered Psychologist who is passionate about providing holistic and integrated care, working to support you to reach your wellbeing, mental health and/or other personal, work, or life goals.

I highly value enabling a space that meets you where you are at, and that feels both psychologically and culturally safe. I work in a collaborative and inclusive way, to help better understand your unique strengths and challenges, and what brings you meaning, resilience, coping, capacity, and growth.

A key part of my approach is also being mindful of the broader context surrounding an individual, including what supports, protects and nourishes you (be that family, friends, community, workplace, culture, spiritual community, or collective identity).

I have over twenty years’ experience in counselling, psychosocial support, training and workplace wellbeing support in the context of the international humanitarian and development sector. Through this I have particularly supported students, staff, managers and leaders in contexts such as health, education, development, conflict and disasters.

I am registered to provide individual support through Medicare. I am also available for Workplace Wellbeing services including EAP, staff support, management supervision, or WorkCover eligible support.

therapeutic Style

My style is compassionate, warm, open and approachable, and collaborative.

Special Interests

• Stress, burnout, and vicarious trauma

• Workplace wellbeing and EAP

• Enhancing mental health, enabling resilience and wellbeing

• Life or work transitions and adjustments (including return to work, parental)

• Cross-cultural adjustments and (re)integration, cultural safety, collective care

• Women’s leadership and development

• Frontline and emergency workers, disaster support, health and community staff

• Management support and supervision

Education

• Master of Psychology (Organisational), UNSW

• Bachelor of Science (Psychology) with Honours, UWA

• AHPRA Registered Psychologist

• Member of Australian Psychological Society; College of Organisational Psychology

• Trauma informed practice; Cultural safety in Trauma informed practice (APS)

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

• Psychological first aid, mental health first aid, suicide prevention.

• SIRA Allied Health practitioner training and registration

Modality & Approach

I adopt an holistic, biopsychosocial approach, seeking to understand key personal psychological factors for the client, as well as the context and culture around them.

My approach is trauma-informed and integrates a combination of modalities and tools including talk therapy, psycho-education, strengths-based approaches, positive psychology, ACT, and mindfulness.

Personal Insight

What makes you happy?
Spending regular time at one of the many lovely beaches in this beautiful Gumbaynggirr country that we are so lucky to live on, with my family and our dog!

In the bigger picture, having a sense of meaning, community and connection.

What makes you feel grounded?
Spending time in nature, especially in or near water.

What is one thing you do daily that supports your mental and emotional well-being?
Being kind to both myself and others.

fee

Individual Therapy | $200

Supervision | $220 (+GST)

Leadership Coaching | $300 (+GST)

Medicare Rebate (with Mental Health Care Plan, for individual therapy only) | $96.65