I'm a psychotherapist, counsellor and mental health nurse with over 25 years experience working with all aspects of mental health, including depression, anxiety, stress, relationships, trauma, sexual abuse, anger management and panic disorders. We can work together to help organise your thoughts and make sense of who you are, and why you do what you do, enabling you to live your best life. I can come to your home or you can visit my welcoming practice in Wanneroo.
I've worked in a range of state government and public sector roles in addition to independent practice as a clinician, manager and supervisor and training consultant. I also provide individual professional coaching, mentoring and debriefing and utilise cognitive, mindfulness and solution-focused based strategies to empower and facilitate rapid personal, professional and organisation change. I love to work with individuals and organisations specialising in mental health, wellbeing and happiness.
As such, I've developed unique training packages for leadership development, team building, conflict resolution and managing change. I use many of these packages whilst working as a senior consultant associate with Converge International and Access EAP which are both Employee Assistance Programs. My personal style is warm, engaging and passionate and builds upon my significant academic qualifications in counselling, psychotherapy and mental health nursing.
I'm well known in the therapeutic field as a lead clinician and trainer in psychotherapy and use lots of spiritual energy in everyday life to help build and maintain work and life balance. Psychotherapy "With the help of modern age brain scans, we can now see positive changes in the brain from psychotherapy and in some studies, it even proves better results than medication" Psychotherapy is a deeper and longer-term process of counselling to restructure our thinking to provide long-lasting changes.
Psychotherapy brings relief from emotional wounds and opens new ways of seeing things in the light. Most modern age therapies you may have heard of have been restructured from centuries-old psychoanalytic thinkers. Analytic Psychotherapy is a treatment that looks deeply to uncover root causes. The results are long-lasting with a sense of empowerment and an improved sense of self. Psychotherapy is a professional relationship used to explore our deep unconscious psyche, which can change ingrained behaviour’s and develop new ways of diminishing our internal critics, resulting in being the best person we can be.
Psychotherapy works well with regular sessions, which is mostly aimed at heading towards the highest level of self-actualisation. Psychotherapists are trained to work with low to severe mental health problems and work intensively with their clients over long periods of time, sometimes for years or more. Counselling "People are as happy as they make their minds up to be" If you’re reading this, chances are you are probably stuck in your life in some aspect or another.
Counselling helps you become unstuck by providing you with the tools required to provide change and growth. With counselling, you should become less concerned about your worries and instead your thinking will become organised. Counselling is generally known as short term and tends to concentrate on practical and immediate issues. Counselling is a professional, confidential and nonjudgmental talk therapy focused on helping people with immediate problems.
It may be easy to solve these problems yourself, however, the same patterns tend to keep repeating themselves and we usually resort to our old habitual ways without realising that the underlying reasons have not been attended to. About Me I moved to Perth from Scotland many years ago and began studying analytic psychotherapy at the Churchill Clinic. Laing, John Heaton, Rosemary Gordon and Christopher Bollass. Whilst there, I was grateful to have experienced international teaching from psychotherapist warriors, swordsmen and Buddhist monks and learned how they practice in their own countries.
Teachings were specific to Analytic Psychotherapy, Existentialism, Jungian Psychotherapy and Mindfulness, resulting in lots of spiritual connections and healings. Following this, I spent 4 years completing a Masters in Psychotherapy & Counselling at Edith Cowan University. I graduated from this as a Golden Key Member which is by invitation only for the top 15% top-performing academic students in this field in the world. I'm currently registered as a full Clinical Member with the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA) and the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).