About Me
There is a version of this page where I list my qualifications, summarise my approach in three bullet points, and invite you to book. That version exists somewhere. But it has never felt like the truth of how I came to this work or why I believe in it the way that I do.
So instead, I want to tell you something real.
I did not choose this work because it interested me. I chose it because it saved me.
There was a period in my life where everything I had built around myself fell away at once. The relationships, the identity, the version of myself I had been performing for as long as I could remember. I was left with something I had spent years avoiding — stillness, and the feelings that live inside it.
What I found in that space was not what I expected. I found that the body holds everything. That the mind, however clever and analytical, cannot reach the places where real change is made. That healing is not something that happens to you, rather it is something you move through, slowly, with presence, with courage, and with the willingness to feel what has been waiting to be felt.
That understanding did not come from a textbook. It came from living it. And it is what I bring into every single session I hold.
The path that led me here
I am a qualified Clinical Hypnotherapist with additional Psychotherapeutic qualifications, currently completing my Bachelor of Psychological Science (Honours) at the University of Queensland, with the intention of undertaking doctoral research in hypnosis. I am a 200-hour qualified Yoga teacher, and I attend regular workshops at the Queensland Jung Society, deepening my understanding of the unconscious, dream work, and internal imagery.
But the path that led here was never purely academic. Long before I had any formal qualifications, I was someone who sought to understand — the patterns beneath behaviour, the feelings beneath thought, the body's quiet language beneath everything. My own healing journey took me into territories that traditional psychology alone could not reach. And in moving through that — through the yoga mat, through the stillness, through the willingness to face what I had been running from — I began to understand what genuine transformation actually requires.
The experiences were so profound, so undeniable in their impact, that they did not leave me with a choice. They called me toward this work. Toward creating a space where others could access the same depth of change that I had found, not in spite of their pain, but through it.
The only way is through. And through does not have to be alone.
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In my clinical work, I draw from…
My approach is not a single modality. It is a living integration — of neuroscience and nervous system understanding, of ancient wisdom and modern psychology, of the clinical and the intuitive. Each session draws from whatever is most needed for the person in front of me.
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At the heart of every session is hypnosis — the brain's natural state of deep receptivity, where new learning becomes possible within the brain and the nervous system. Drawing from the work of Milton H. Erickson, I use metaphor, symbolism, and indirect suggestion to work with the subconscious mind in a way that feels natural, not forced. This is not the hypnosis of stage shows. It is quiet, gentle, and profoundly effective.
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Beneath all of this is a deep respect for the science of how we change. The nervous system is not a passive observer of our experience — it is an active participant, constantly scanning, adapting, encoding. Understanding this biology — the role of the autonomic nervous system, the nature of trauma responses, the science of neuroplasticity — allows me to work with the body's own intelligence rather than against it.
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Yoga, in its deepest form, is not a physical practice. It is a philosophy of integration — of bringing the mind, body, and spirit into alignment so that life can be lived from a place of wholeness rather than fragmentation. I have practiced yoga for years, not as exercise but as inquiry, and as a way of listening to what the body is holding, and gently, intentionally, creating the conditions to release it. This understanding of the body as a site of healing, not just sensation, is woven through everything I do.
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Carl Jung understood that beneath the conscious mind lies an extraordinary inner world — one that speaks through dreams, images, symbols, and the quiet knowing we often dismiss as coincidence. I attend regular workshops at the Queensland Jung Society and draw from Jungian principles in my work with shadow, internal imagery, and the deeper patterns that shape a person's life. This is where the clinical and the mystical meet.
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CBT helps us understand the relationship between thoughts, feelings, and behaviour — how a belief formed at one point in time can quietly shape every decision you make from that moment forward. In session, I use CBT frameworks to help clients identify the stories that have been running in the background, see them clearly for what they are, and begin to loosen their grip.
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Many of the people I work with have been extraordinarily hard on themselves for a very long time. Compassion-focused therapy works with the part of the nervous system that responds to warmth, safety, and care — not as a soft alternative to change, but as the biological foundation that makes change possible. You cannot heal in a state of self-attack. CFT creates the internal conditions for something gentler.
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ACT invites us to stop fighting our inner experience and start moving toward what matters instead. Rather than trying to eliminate painful thoughts or feelings, we learn to hold them differently — with curiosity rather than fear, with openness rather than resistance. In my sessions, this shows up as an invitation to turn toward, rather than away.
What this looks like in a session
No two sessions are the same, because no two people are the same. What I bring is not a script or a protocol but a deep attentiveness to what you say and what you don't, to where your body shifts before you have words for it, to the thread beneath the story you arrived with.
We begin with conversation. Not the kind where you are expected to have everything figured out, but the kind where we follow the feeling together, until we find the thing underneath the thing. From there, we move into the trance work: a natural, deeply relaxed state in which your nervous system becomes receptive to new experience, and the patterns that have felt impossible to shift begin, quietly, to reorganise.
Clients often describe leaving sessions feeling something they struggle to name. Lighter. Clearer. Like something that was held tightly has finally been allowed to soften. That is not a technique. That is what happens when the body finally feels safe enough to let go.
My priority is always the same: to create a space where trust is possible, where nothing needs to be hidden, and where every part of you is welcome.
A note on what this is not
This is not therapy where you are diagnosed, categorised, or handed a treatment plan. It is not a space where you will be told what is wrong with you. There is nothing wrong with you. What you carry has a history, and that history makes complete sense, even when it no longer serves you.
This is a space for people who are ready to stop circling and start moving. Who sense that something deeper is available to them, even if they cannot yet see the shape of it. Who are willing to feel, to explore, and to trust that the discomfort of change is smaller than the cost of staying still.
If that is you, I would love to work with you.