For when life is heavier than it looks... integrative counselling for the part of it nobody sees. In person in Hervey Bay, in your home, and online anywhere in Australia.
You can be surrounded by people who love you and still be carrying this on your own.
A diagnosis that has quietly become yours to carry. Grief, loss, relationships shifting into something you didn't choose. The kind of change that leaves you in a parallel universe, while everyone else's world carries on as normal.
Here, all of it counts. Your thinking, your body, what you believe, what this has cost you and who you're becoming on the other side of it. All of it gently considered.
None of it depends on your age or your fitness. A nervous system bracing in a hospital corridor and a nervous system bracing at a desk are doing the same thing.
It's working with you, and it starts delicately: a jaw that will not unclench, a breath that is held, sleep that will not come, the niggle list getting longer... When that isn't heard, it gets louder.
I came the long way round. In a lab as a pathology scientist, years in orthopaedic theatres as clinical support. Neuroscience as my academic study. Running companies for profit. I've seen what medicine does brilliantly, and what it leaves untouched.
Neuroscience is what joins the two up. It's why I can tell you what your shoulders are doing in a waiting room, and why this is information rather than a problem.
This is your time. You can say the thing you haven't said out loud, and feel where it's been sitting in your body. Some weeks we start with words, some with the body, because that's where the conversation is already happening.
What I draw on
One to one. The nervous system and the story, together, at your pace. Some weeks we start with words, some with the body, because that is where the conversation is already happening.
For the hard thing that lives between people... illness in the house, grief carried differently, a young person who has gone quiet. Everyone gets heard, the pace stays kind, and not everyone has to attend every time.
Small groups, gathered around a shared season of life. There is a particular relief in hearing your own experience in someone else's words, and finding your function alongside people who understand.
Full detail for each: Private clients · NDIS participants · Support at Home
Sessions are held in person in Hervey Bay, in your home, or online anywhere in Australia. Telehealth is the same fee as in person.
Or if you'd rather begin with a conversation, send me an email and tell me a little about what's going on for you. You'll hear back from me shortly.