About me
I am based in the Lockyer Valley, Queensland. I have two children (young adults), three grandchildren, an extensive family network and a few animals. I enjoy many aspects of life: music, cooking, gardening, riding, cars, architecture, learning new things and furthering my education, social gatherings and meeting new people, training my dog and of course, spending quality time with my family.
Area of Experience
Caring & mature multi-level Counsellor providing guidance & working with individuals who have diverse needs regarding life transitions – grief & loss, relationships & family issues, loneliness, stress & anxiety, depression, parenting pressures, suicide – emotional, physical, or substance & self-esteem issues.
CBT, ACT, Mindfulness
Strength Based Therapy & Person-Centred approaches focus on working with the client to accept who they are, this enables me to work with individual clients, couples and families from diverse backgrounds & experiences, offering the support & understanding they need in order to evolve & make changes in their lives, make healthy choices & change patterns of behaviours. .
Supporting individuals to heal, energise, & become aware of their inner strengths. Provide a neutral safe space, listening to their concerns & customising a therapy plan with a range of approaches to adapt to the client’s interests.
Qualifications
- NDIS Quality & Safeguards Commission – ‘Quality, Safety & You’ & ‘Supporting Effective Communication
- Australian Institute of Professional Counsellors – Working with Children and Families Training
- Care · Collaborate · Connect: Suicide Prevention Training
- Sports Integrity Aust – PBTRs – Child Protection and Safeguarding
- Counsellor at White Cloud Foundation
- Australian Counselling Association and Australian Register of Counsellors & Psychotherapists
- Advanced Major study in Relationship Counselling & Conflict Resolution,
- Child Development & Effective Parenting & Mindfulness-Based Therapies