Healing begins with feeling safe.
A strong therapeutic relationship provides the foundation for meaningful change. My aim is to create a space where you feel heard, understood, and seen as we work together.
I’m a Mullumbimby based counsellor and psychotherapist offering individual and couples therapy.
Couples Therapy
As a psychotherapist and counsellor in Mullumbimby and Byron Region, I provide a safe and supportive space where both partners can slow down, feel heard, and begin to understand what is happening beneath the conflict. My role is to create a safe container where difficult conversations become possible and both partners feel safe enough to openly share their thoughts, feelings, and perspectives.
Together, we'll make sense of the patterns that keep you feeling stuck and explore how early attachment experiences, relationship dynamics, and nervous system responses may be influencing the way you relate to one another. I believe that breakthrough comes through insight—helping you understand not only what is happening between you, but why.
Along the way, I'll share practical insights and introduce evidence-based strategies and home practices, so that real change can happen outside the therapy room. My goal is to help you strengthen communication, rebuild trust, and create a more secure, connected, and fulfilling relationship.
My approach integrates the Gottman Method, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), and the work of Terry Real, tailoring these evidence-based approaches to the unique needs and goals of each couple.
Investment:
$220 (90 minutes session)
Individual Counselling
Sometimes life can feel overwhelming. You might be feeling anxious, stuck, disconnected, exhausted, or simply not like yourself anymore. Therapy offers a space to slow down, make sense of what's happening, and find a way forward.
I take the time to really understand your story not just your symptoms. Together, we'll explore the patterns that keep showing up in your life and uncover what's sitting beneath them, because I believe that insight is where lasting change begins.
My approach is grounded in integrative, evidence-based therapies, rooted in the understanding that trauma lives in the body and that healing must include it. I draw on a range of therapeutic approaches, including Somatic Experiencing (SE), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Schema Therapy.
You'll leave with a better understanding of what's been keeping you stuck, practical tools that fit your life, and simple practices to help you feel calmer, more connected, and more like yourself.
Sessions are individualised and paced to suit you, combining practical strategies with deeper therapeutic work to support lasting change.
Investment:
$160 (60-minutes session)
Support Sessions during or after Crisis or Traumatic Event
This service is for individuals, couples, families, and workplace or community groups who need calm, professional support following a traumatic event, crisis, or life-changing diagnosis.
Evidence shows that early, trauma-informed support following sudden or overwhelming events can reduce distress, support emotional regulation, and positively influence longer-term adjustment and recovery. By meeting together in your home, workplace, or my office, we create a safe space to talk about what has occurred. We explore common and understandable responses to shock, trauma, stress, and uncertainty, and identify practical ways to support yourself and one another during this initial period.
Having worked alongside people and families during some of life's most challenging moments, in hospitals, with Médecins Sans Frontières Australia, and in the NSW Adult Acute Care Mental Health Service, I offer calm, practical, and compassionate guidance, along with referrals to trusted local community services, to support your healing journey.
Sessions are paced and responsive, with a focus on stabilisation, coping, and restoring a sense of safety and agency.
Online Services
Online and telephone support services have been growing in necessity and popularity over recent years, offering more choice and flexibility in how we receive help. There is strong evidence that mental health support and therapy delivered online is just as effective as face-to-face. Accordingly, all counselling services can be offered online, as well as every training event.
Therapy in Nature
There is strong evidence that time in nature can support psychological and physical wellbeing, helping to reduce stress, regulate emotions, and bring gentle attention to the present moment. During periods of trauma, stress, anxiety, or significant life change, being outdoors can offer a sense of grounding and support that feels different from traditional indoor settings.
For this reason, I offer Nature Therapy as an alternative way of working together. Sessions take place at your pace, with the option to pause, sit, or rest as needed, and are held away from main paths to support privacy and ease.
For those with mobility considerations, or if preferred, sessions can also be conducted seated in a quiet outdoor setting overlooking one of the park’s natural spaces.
These sessions provide the therapeutic benefits of counselling within a naturally supportive environment, allowing movement, nature, and conversation to work together in a way that feels steady, contained, and responsive.
FAQs
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An individual session costs $160 AUD (60 minutes) and couples therapy costs $220 AUD (90 minutes).
A sliding scale fee can be arranged for those experiencing financial hardship.
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Please note I am unable to support mental health care plans or provide rebates from Medicare.
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I generally recommend a minimum of five sessions to start seeing progress, but I can provide a clearer estimate after our initial discussion. More frequent attendance typically helps you get the most from therapy. Weekly sessions are generally recommended. However, you can also make fortnightly or monthly appointments.
A space for healing and change.
A strong therapeutic relationship provides the foundation for meaningful change. My aim is to create a space where you feel heard, understood, and supported as we work together.
I’m a Mullumbimby based counsellor and psychotherapist offering individual and couples therapy.