Referring someone?

A brief clinical summary, if you're a medical, psychological or allied health practitioner considering a referral:

  • Qualification & registration

    Master of Counselling and Psychotherapy (Holistic Practice), Metavision Institute — PACFA-accredited. PACFA Reg. Certified Practising 32994. Currently completing specialist training in Gestalt Therapy (Gestalt Sydney), under ongoing clinical supervision.

  • Format

    Individual sessions, 60 or 90 minutes, in person (Eltham), via video-telehealth, or by negotiated walk-and-talk or home/hospital visit.

  • Presentations I work with

    Stress, anxiety, depression, grief and loss, trauma (including PTSD/cPTSD — WET available), self-harm and emotional dysregulation, life transitions, addictive tendencies, and neurodivergent clients. Full list on the homepage.

  • Presentations outside my scope 

    Couples/family therapy, children and adolescents, active AOD dependence, and clients currently using violence towards others — happy to discuss appropriate referral options in these cases.

  • Complex or higher-acuity presentations (incl. longstanding self-harm, suspected BPD, significant dissociation, history of psychosis or of recreational psychedelic use)

    You are are welcome to discuss directly. Somatic trauma work in particular carries real risks for some of these presentations, so these are assessed case-by-case in consultation with my clinical supervisor, and I'll often refer on where a higher level of support — or a different approach — is needed.

  • Confidentiality

    Standard limits apply where there's risk to safety — see Privacy & Confidentiality for detail.

  • Confidentiality with referrers

    If you refer someone to me, I'll acknowledge their attendance if asked, without disclosing session content.

  • Care team coordination

    Happy to consult with a client's broader care team, where the client consents to this.

  • Mandated clients

    I don't accept clients who are court- or externally-mandated into behaviour-change work — my practice is for people attending voluntarily.

  • Crisis presentations

    I'm not a crisis service. Happy to share a list of crisis referral contacts if useful for your own practice.

Refer today

Call 0435 527 020 or write to me to discuss a referral.

My approach & modalities

My clinical approach draws upon and is informed by a range of modalities (therapy-speak for frameworks and techniques) chosen and tailored to fit the person and the presenting concern rather than a single fixed protocol:

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

Working collaboratively to identify the specific thoughts, beliefs, and patterns driving distress, and testing them systematically against the evidence, so you can develop more balanced thinking and lasting practical skills.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Building a workable relationship with difficult thoughts and feelings while moving through life congruently with what matters to you.

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)

I don't offer a full DBT service, but I teach the full suite of DBT skills — mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness — in my Skills for life program. I also draw on these skills within individual counselling sessions where it's clinically relevant and in agreement with the client — this isn't limited to people also attending Skills for life.

Written Exposure Therapy (WET)

A structured, five-session approach in which writing about the traumatic memory itself becomes the vehicle for processing it, offering a gentler, more contained path through trauma than approaches requiring extended verbal recounting.

Somatic trauma work

Supporting clients through slow, methodical, step-wise exploration of traumatic events, allowing their brains and wider nervous systems to reintegrate, restore and recall without dysregulating. Ensuring safety first — building trust and skills in regulation before going anywhere near difficult material, checking in constantly, proceeding at the client's pace, and maintaining a clear way back to a regulated, present awareness.

Process Work (Process-Oriented Psychology)

Working with the body, dreams, thoughts and relational patterns as valid information — pointing to who you really are, and to who you're working to become.

Gestalt Therapy

A genuine dialogue with a particular quality of presence, working with what happens between us. This often suits people whose patterns show up more clearly in the here and now, than in extensive retelling of the past.

I believe good therapy meets people where they are, rather than asking them to fit a single method. If you've tried a more structured approach before and felt something was missing, or you're looking for support that honours both clinical evidence and the fuller texture of your lived experience, I'd love to hear from you.