Counsellor. Functional Nutrition Practitioner. Energy Healer. Professional Dot Connector

I came to this work the long way around - and not the scenic kind.  Before I found my naturopath, I’d spent years doing the rounds. Specialist after specialist, $400 a pop, walking out with some variation of we don’t know or your results are normal. It was exhausting in a way that’s hard to describe - not just physically, but the particular demoralisation of being dismissed by people who are supposed to have answers.  Then I found someone who actually looked at my gut. It sounds simple. It wasn’t. Getting that sorted changed my brain, my mood, my capacity to function - things I hadn’t even connected to each other started making sense. She was the catalyst. The starting point for everything that followed.  But from there, I had to figure out the rest myself. The mental health piece, the emotional patterns, the connections between what had happened to me and how my body was responding. Research rabbit holes. Hitting walls. Stumbling into the right thing at the right moment. Nobody handed me a map. I built it piece by piece.  I’ve walked through grief, burnout, systemic gaslighting, and experiences that forced a full rebuild. I’m not sharing that for effect - I’m sharing it because it’s the reason I work the way I do. I know what it feels like to be unheard. I know what it costs. And I know that most people sitting across from me have already tried the expensive, fragmented route before they got here.  My late grandmother was a quiet wisdom keeper whose relationship with herbs, intuition, and the natural world shaped mine long before I had words for it. My spirituality - left behind in my teens - came back through the healing process, and it’s woven into everything I do now.  I studied Functional Nutrition under Cyndi O’Meara at The Nutrition Academy and hold a Diploma in Counselling. My approach draws on IFS, Compassionate Inquiry, Somatic Therapy, EMDR, Polyvagal Theory, and more. But the frameworks are tools. The thing underneath all of it is just paying careful attention to what someone’s whole system is telling me.  At my core, I’m a professional dot-connector. That’s the job.

Credentials

• Diploma of Counselling (IAP)

• Certified Functional Nutrition Practitioner (The Nutrition Academy - Cyndi O’Meara)

• IFS Informed - Frank Anderson MD

• Compassionate Inquiry - Dr Gabor Maté

• Somatic Therapy - Dr Abi Blakeslee

• Somatic Experiencing - Peter Levine PhD

• EMDR - Stacey Ruse LPC & Dr Arielle Schwartz

• Polyvagal Theory - Dr Ari Badaines

• Group Facilitator Training - Dr Ari Badaines

• Solution Focused Brief therapy - Dr Ari Badaines

• Mindfulness for Wellbeing - Monash University

• Psychology Studies - University of Liverpool (UK)

• Registered with IICT (International Institute of Complimentary Therapsists)
   

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