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Guiding you home
Guiding you home
Gestalt Psychotherapist & Creativity Therapist
Northern Beaches, Sydney
I am a Gestalt Psychotherapist, Counsellor & Creativity Therapist with over 10 years experience in the field. I began my work in the area of healing as a Registered Nurse.
Whilst raising my 2 daughters, as a full time Mum, a very challenging event in my family of origin motivated me to seek the help of a psychotherapist to understand my feelings. The journey of self discovery that unfolded was so rich & life changing that it inspired me to study.
I gained a Masters degree in Gestalt Psychotherapy, a holistic, relational approach that builds awareness through working with the present moment.
An avid beach comber & textile artist, I incorporate creative therapy into the sessions, allowing a gentle vehicle for self discovery & healing.
My passion is empowering women to trust their own inner wisdom & knowing as they traverse major life transitions.
Specific areas of experience include:
Parenting
Family Separation & Divorce
Grief & Loss
Empty Nest
Life Transitions
I provide face-to- face sessions for individuals & small groups from my Studio in Fairlight. Online sessions are available if needed.
My Approach
GUIDING YOU HOME
I recognise the life changing, transformative possibilities that often occur when we take the brave step to engage with therapy.
Whilst holding a safe space, I gently invite the exploration into self-understanding that allows creativity to flow, insights to emerge & awareness to grow. Gestalt therapy, the foundation of my training, is a holistic, relational, approach that works with the present moment to facilitate this journey.
I am passionate about supporting & inspiring clients to explore & understand themselves through working with their hands to create, for example, a weaving. I have both personally experienced & witnessed in others that the hands create a connection to the heart & inner wisdom, allowing a deep layer of understanding to arise & healing to occur.
I believe the hands know what the heart needs to heal.
Working creatively, gently allows access to the unconscious & deepening the connection to our intuition. When we access this creative, intuitive space, we become present.
As our hands are occupied, time dissolves & the mind settles. We enter into the zone of mindfulness giving our nervous system the opportunity to regulate.
“While the hands are busy, the mind is free”.
Including creative making processes into the therapy allows a tangible object to be formed that both facilitates & is infused with healing, insights & meaning. The objects that are made by hand, with this layer of awareness, become vehicles for healing & transformation.
The focus is on the process rather than the outcome, as we take our past experiences & weave them with fresh understanding & meaning, to journey with us into the future.
“Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain”.
Carl G. Jung
By bringing the internal, unconscious & hidden gently & safely into view, we make discoveries that raise our awareness & expand the choices we have about how we move through this world.
Previous creative experience is not required, as I believe we each hold infinite wisdom & creativity within ourselves. Access is often blocked by life’s challenges & the mind. Working creatively with our hands in a safe, nurturing space, allows the door to open.
