Our most basic wound is to have been taken away from who we are and pressured into being what we are not. Sometimes this occurs through trauma, sometimes via prejudice and sometimes as a result of the best of intentions. Sometimes we submit. Sometimes we rebel or react. Either way we are bumped from our true nature.

Successful counselling is driven by the client’s intentions: the client is the hero/heroine in this journey.

As a counsellor, my job is to recognise and support this journey in any way that I can. The therapeutic relationship between counsellor and client is the second most powerful driver of change.

Though I use multiple approaches, I ultimately regard myself as an existential counsellor. Most people are in one way or another dealing with fundamental existential issues – freedom and responsibility, isolation and connection, mortality and finiteness, meaninglessness and meaning, seriousness and play.

I have worked for more than two decades with people who are pursuing a quest for self-awareness, with asylum seekers and refugees, children dealing with grief, people confronting acute mental health challenges, and people dealing with substance use issues, homelessness and discrimination because of their gender, first nations status, or poverty.

I am a university-trained counsellor, a Level 4 member of the Australian Counselling Association (MACA), a member of the ACA College of Supervisors, and have extensive training in contemporary approaches to trauma (including Deep Brain Reorienting) along with various approaches to experiential psychotherapy.

Please feel free to contact me to learn more or ask questions to see if we are a good counselling or supervision fit.