I am an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker providing in person and telehealth consultation with Medicare rebates available with a Mental Health Care Plan from your GP.

Originally from New Zealand where I completed my Social Work training I have spent the last 15+ years working in Child & Adolescent Mental Health services with children and adolescents with severe and complex mental health needs across New Zealand, Victoria and Queensland.  I now work exclusively in private practice on the Sunshine Coast or online where I see a range of children and adolescents as well as adults with complex and developmental trauma, PTSD, depression and anxiety, complex grief and loss, personality disorders, relationship issues, pre and postnatal mental health, birth trauma, parenting adjustment, and attachment.  

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As an EMDR trained therapist (Eye Movement Desensitisation and reprocessing therapy) my practice framework when treating trauma or trauma related presentations is informed by the understanding that the nature of our current distress or symptoms is connected to unresolved experiences in the past.   

I use an integrated practice framework including attachment models such as Circle of Security and the PACE model, trauma-informed models such as EMDR; Internal Family Systems and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and, cognitive models such as Schema Therapy, and others as indicated.

I utilise a relational approach meaning I work with you as a partner in the process in which we both seek to understand the difficulties that have brought you to seek support and from there explore opportunities for change.

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