Restoring Voices, Rebuilding Lives
Specialist counselling and EMDR therapy for childhood and sexual trauma
In person in Midland & Ellenbrook + online across Australia
Something has felt off for a long time with your relationships and in your body. It’s the way you move through the world, you’re always managing yourself and your emotions, always watching whats happening around you and never feeling at ease with yourself or others.
You’ve tried to figure it out. You’re smart, you know yourself, and yet still you find yourself in the same patterns, with the same reactions, and the same quiet exhaustion. Everything always feels so hard and you feel constantly lost and failing.
I promise you this isn’t a willpower problem and it’s not a talking problem. It’s what happens when your nervous system learned to survive something and never got the memo that it’s over.
This is the work we do here. Not just talking about it, it’s deep, long term work that actually shifts things.
Counselling that works with how trauma actually lives in the body
Most trauma doesn’t sit neatly in memory or language. It lives in the nervous system, in patterns of shutdown, hypervigilance, dissociation, people-pleasing, and difficulty with intimacy or boundaries.
That’s why talking alone often isn’t enough.
Our approach to counselling focuses on the parts of you that learned to survive early, the younger, protective parts that are still doing their job, even when it no longer fits your adult life. Together, we work with these parts gently and directly, so they no longer need to run the present.
This approach is especially supportive for people who:
- Have tried therapy before and still feel stuck
- Keep ending up in the same relationships, the same patterns, the same place
- Carry childhood trauma, sexual trauma, or complex PTSD
- Struggle with intimacy, sex, or feeling safe in their body
- Feel overwhelmed, numb, or like they’re always waiting for something to go wrong
- Know why they do things and still can’t seem to stop
- Are exhausted from holding it all together
- Have difficulties with being parents or relationships with your parents
Childhood and Sexual Trauma
You’ve done the therapy. Read the books. You understand yourself and you’re still stuck in the same patterns, the same relationships, the same exhaustion. Talking hasn’t been enough.
There’s a reason for that.
Our Services
Intimacy, sex, and kink-aware
Your body shuts down when you want it to show up. Or sex has become complicated in ways you can’t quite explain to anyone.
You deserve support that gets all of it, without the raised eyebrow.
Our Services
Emdr, parts and body based
You’ve tried to think your way out of this. It hasn’t worked — because the part of you that’s stuck isn’t living in your thoughts. It’s in your body, your reactions, your relationships.
This is therapy that works where the problem actually lives.
Our Services
Couples, family & ethical non-monogamy
You love them. You’re just not sure love is enough anymore. The same fights, the same silence, the same slow drift. It doesn’t matter how many people are in your relationship — when connection breaks down, it’s lonely.
No matter what your relationship looks like, there’s support here for all of it.
Supervison
For counsellors who want depth without the clinical chill. Supervision grounded in trauma, embodiment, and the messy reality of actual client work.
Our Services
“Healing intimacy means finding safety in your body and connection in your heart.”
Finding the words together
For survivors and supporters who want to talk about sexual assault and trauma without shutting down or panicking. This guide offers clear language and small steps to make the conversation easier to navigate.
Articles
Writing on trauma, memory, sex and sexuality, relationships, somatics, and nervous system healing.
Stop pathologising our pleasure: Where the medical model of care goes wrong with Kink & BDSM
There’s a long and messy history of the medical system of care getting it wrong when it comes to human sexuality.
31/07/2025
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Not all pain is trauma: Understanding BDSM and Kink
Here’s a common myth about BDSM and Kink, and why it’s not the whole story. Learn why not all pain is trauma…
08/07/2025
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How trauma affects memory: Explicit memory vs implicit memory
Our memory systems help us learn, adapt, and survive. They’re a bit like a filing cabinet for our life experiences, helping us to sort and organise events and learnings so we can recall them when required. But when we experience trauma, this process can be disrupted. Learn more…
16/06/2025
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Testimonials
A glimpse into what therapy has meant for the people we’ve supported. (Shared with permission)
The work you do is amazing and I am learning so much on so many levels…your an amazing practitioner and I’m so grateful to have you walking beside me on my journey of self discovery…im loving the treasures im finding in all the mess…im loving myself for the first time in 48 years and it feels fantastic 
Thank you for just being you your an incredible therapist
YP – Client
How We Can Help
Childhood and sexual trauma counselling
Support for survivors and supporters who want support to process childhood and sexual trauma. Trauma that happens early or repeatedly shapes the nervous system in lasting ways. We work developmentally, making space for the parts of you that learned to freeze, comply, disappear, or stay on high alert, helping them come back into safety.
Our ServicesIntimacy, sex, and kink-aware counselling
Support that understands trauma, desire, kink, and the messiness in-between. Whether you’re feeling shut down, disconnected, or struggling in relationships, we help you rebuild connection without shame.
Our ServicesEMDR, parts work & body-based therapy
Evidence-based trauma work that meets your system where it is, not where it “should” be. We use EMDR, parts work, and body-based approaches to help untahngle the things your mind hasn’t been able to think its way through.
Our ServicesCouples and polyamory
For relationships carrying trauma, disconnection, or communication breakdowns. We work with couples, ENM, and polycules to rebuild trust, navigate intimacy, and learn how to actually hear each other.
Our ServicesSupervision
Support for counsellors who want depth without the clinical chill. Supervision grounded in trauma-informed principles, embodiment and real-world practice.
Our Services
“Healing intimacy means finding safety in your body and connection in your heart.”
Your counselling questions answered
Sometimes reaching out feels awkward or a bit too big. These answers should cover the basics, but if I’ve missing something, please reach out. Email or text is completely fine if talking feels like too much.
Medicare rebates or mental health plans are unavailable for counsellors or psychotherapists; this is a federal government decision.
I can accept your mental health plan, and my fees are likely lower or comparable with psychologists after your rebate with no waitlist; let’s chat with your doctor to see if I am the best fit for you.
Were you aware – when accessing a mental health plan, the data stays on your medical records and can be accessed when applying for life insurance or involving careers such as police or military. For this reason, many executives or individuals with jobs requiring perfect mental health do not access mental health plans.
Mental health plans require a diagnosis; I do not work under the medical model (psychologists do) and prefer to work with your symptoms and relieve them.
You can read more about mental health plans here.
Psychologists primarily work under the medical model – they diagnose mental health disorders. Psychotherapists and counsellors are similar in that they are talk-based therapists. Psychotherapists will use the unconscious to uncover behaviours and thought patterns and work with them; counsellors often work with what is presented in the session by a client.
Personally, my framework is psychotherapy; I will spend time exploring your unconscious patterns for behaviours and thoughts; this allows investigation into reasons why you can be feeling depressed, anxious, or having problems within your relationships.
This is dependent on the practitioner.
Yes! Absolutely
Absolutely! Whether self-managed or plan-managed, we can claim your sessions under Improved Daily Living with Capacity Building. We are not a registered NDIS provider. Your sessions are GST-exempt. We use ‘other professional’ line items at $193.99.
We work under a couple of different fee structures depending on your needs. Full payment is required before your session; your appointment time is not completely confirmed until payment has been received.
I understand that it can be frustrating to learn that GST is required to be collected from counsellors and psychotherapists as per Australian Government regulations. Please know that this is not a decision that I have control over, but I assure you that I am here to offer any assistance that I can. If you have any concerns or questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me and please contact your local MP to raise your concerns.
60 minute individual session $205 inc GST
90 minute individual session $285 inc GST
90 minute EMDR processing session $285 inc GST
90 minute couples session $320 inc GST
I accept direct deposit, cash, and credit card. There is a 3% surcharge on credit card fees.
Yes!
You can claim a rebate if you are a member of the following:
Police Health Fund
Medibank Private
Bupa
Emergency Services Health
Phoenix Health
St Lukes Health
GMHBA
CUA (telehealth only)
Westfund
HCF
AHM
HBF
AIA Health
Mildura Health
Teachers Union Health
Nurses and Midwives Health
Unihealth
(Please note not all practitioners can access all private health providers, they are clinician specific).
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