I am an accredited professional through Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) and I offer private online counselling services (which can be subsidised through Medicare if you live in a remote part of Australia) and supervision. After graduating with a Masters of Social Work from the University of Western Australia in 2014 I worked in the Public Mental Health System in South Australia both in crisis support and long-term care.

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I have a strong interest in trauma and the impacts it can have on people’s lives. I am interested in how to develop stories of people’s own know-how about their mental health in a way that builds personal agency in life.

 

I have a background in Narrative Practices and have followed this interest through courses, workshops, conferences and conversations in Chile, Mexico, Brazil, Canada, London, Finland, Denmark, Spain and Australia.

 

I have collaborated with Maggie Carey and Rob Hall from Narrative Practices Adelaide developing and running two workshops. These were: Narrative therapy & Neurobiology in Responding to Trauma (Feb 2018); and Narrative Approaches to Supervision - Creating Spaces to Re-invigorate Professional Identity (Sept 2018).

 

I also worked as a Narrative Therapist at Glenside Hospital, alongside Chris Dolman, with Country Health SA, delivering the service (via tele-link) to people living rurally and remotely in the state. My interest and commitment to online counselling arose from this work. I believe people should be able to access therapy wherever they live and be subsidised in rural and remote parts of Australia.

 

Since 2016, I have also been involved with the Maastricht Approach to working with people who hear voices, alongside friend and collaborator Matt Ball (Humane Clinic). We co-facilitated a number of Hearing Voices two-day training workshops (2017, 2018). The Open Dialogue practices, which have emerged from Finland, have been central to my work in responding to distress. Of particular interest to me is the transparency and accountability which is encompassed in this approach. 

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From 2019-2023 my partner and I  have been living in remote Arnhem Land (where we welcomed our little girl too!), learning from and with Yolŋu people on Yolŋu land. This is where I have commenced my independent online counselling/supervision service. In August 2023 we welcomed our son and have since relocated to SA. Unfortunately I am not currently taking referrals but please do email me for recommendations of other therapists offering a similar service. 

 

I am alert and attuned to the individual experience of the people I meet and their unique set of circumstances.

 I always look forward to navigating, traversing, exploring all the stories that come to these sessions and I am looking forward to when I have time to meet with people again.