University qualifications

Bachelor of Behavioural Science (Psychology), La Trobe University 2004

Masters of Social Work, Flinders University 2011

Accredited Mental Health Social Worker, Australian Association of Social Workers 2017

Additional training

Hakomi – Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy

  • Hakomi Professional Training Level 3, 2024 (Full graduation from 3 year Professional Training)

  • H.E.A.R.T (Hakomi Embodied and Aware Relationship Training) 12 months, 2023

  • Meeting the Mapmaker workshop, with Jules Morgaine 2023

  • Right Use of Power- 8 week Core Training, with Right Use of Power Institute, 2023

  • Presence of Heart-Mind: The Gift of Hakomi workshop, with Aladdin Jones 2022 (in the role as assistant)

  • Wisdom of the bodymind workshop, with Aladdin Jones 2022 (in the role as assistant)

  • Hakomi Professional Training Level 2, 2021

  • Trauma to Dharma Level 1, with Manuela Mischke-Reeds, 2020

  • ‘In and out of character: From protection to connection’ training, with Jules Morgaine. 2019-2020

  • Hakomi Professional Training Level 1, 2019

  • Mindfulness Based Experiential Psychotherapy with Couples workshop, with Rob Fisher 2019

  • Hakomi in the fishbowl: Live sessions with Halko Weiss 2019

  • Resistance is not a problem: a Hakomi approach to working with defences workshop, with Karen Baikie, 2018

  • Working with Trauma in the Body workshop, with Jules Morgaine, 2017


Art-based therapy

  • Institute for Sensorimotor Art Therapy

    • Certificate of Clay Field Therapy, 2021-22

    • Certificate of Initiactic Art Therapy, 2016-2020

    • Healing Trauma with Guided Drawing, 2019

  • IFS Intuitive Drawing - Foundation, with Ruth Culver 2023

  • Drawing into Self (IFS), with Ruth Culver 2021

Selection of other training

  • Principles and Ethics of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Melbourne Shiatsu College 2021

  • Perinatal Non-directive Counselling Training, Australian Psychological Society 2018

  • Clinical Supervision Training - Bouverie Centre, 2018

  • Models of the Mind 1 year reading group - Melbourne Psychoanalytic Institute, 2017

  • Internal Family Systems: Introductory Course, with Bonnie Weiss 2016

  • Internal Family Systems: Advanced Skills, with Bonnie Weiss 2016

  • Winnicott reading group, Central Victoria Psychoanalytic Interest Group 2016

  • Narrative Therapy: Level one intensive, Dulwich Centre 2014

  • Trauma Informed Training for Health Practitioners, Adults Surviving Child Abuse 2014

Working life

During my undergraduate degree I worked in the disability sector, for which I will always be grateful. I learned from the people I worked with about the importance of promoting dignity in a world which can sometimes forget.

I lived and worked in the Northern Territory for 6 years. During my Masters degree I worked with young mothers experiencing homelessness in Darwin. After graduating, I began as a Research Officer at Menzies School of Health Research in Alice Springs. Our projects promoted cultural safety and trauma-informed principles within children and family services. From this, came my one and only academic publication.

I began my journey as a therapist as a school counsellor in Darwin, followed by being a Lead Clinician at the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) in Bendigo. On moving to Melbourne, I held a role as a Senior Clinician at eheadspace then Allied Health Professional (counsellor) at the headspace centre in Collingwood.

I began my private practice in 2018. The autonomy of private practice has allowed me to develop, and lean into, my own approach to psychotherapy, including integration of Sensorimotor Art Therapy and Hakomi. My earlier work with young people and families underpins my understanding of clients’ childhood experiences. Having started my career in the Northern Territory, a complex environment, I have long been interested in the impacts of intergenerational trauma and the ways in which the personal is political, and the political is personal.

In 2020 I established a shared therapy space in Northcote, Inside This River: Somatic and Art Therapies in order to work alongside people with similar values. This clinic takes it’s name from my favourite Rumi poem. After a limping start through the 2021 lockdown, we now have a thriving group of practitioners providing a range of therapy styles. I provide individual sessions and group workshops from this space.