Anne
Registered Psychotherapist in Adelaide
Bachelor of Social Science (Counselling and Psychotherapy) Postgraduate Relationship Counselling
She/Her/Hers.
Hart Centre Certified
Individual: $180 – $205
Couples: $200 – $225
“One good conversation can shift the direction of the change forever.”
Anne is a Registered Clinical Counsellor, psychotherapist and relationship specialist in Beulah Park who works with individuals and couples when life feels heavy, overwhelming or difficult to shift – despite trying to hold it all together.
Clients may come feeling anxious, emotionally exhausted, disconnected from themselves, or caught in patterns that no longer feel manageable. This may look like overthinking, panic, emotional reactivity, people-pleasing, over-functioning, burnout, shutting down, disordered eating, substance use, or the relentless pressure to keep functioning while feeling depleted underneath. Often there is a sense that something needs to change, but it is difficult to know exactly what, why the same patterns keep returning, or what to do next.
The most satisfying part of the work is when something that has been running beneath the surface finally becomes visible — and a client can make sense of what previously felt confusing, overwhelming or out of their control.
With couples, this is often the moment they stop seeing each other as the problem and begin to see the pattern between them. Criticism, withdrawal, defensiveness or control start to make sense in the context of what each person is protecting underneath. Understanding becomes compassion, the cycle begins to soften, and there is more room for warmth and connection.
With individuals, it may be recognising what sits beneath anxiety, overwhelm, over-functioning or shutdown. When a response that once felt like a flaw begins to make sense as something that developed for a reason, there is often immediate relief — and greater choice about what happens next.
Anne particularly values the quieter shifts: when someone catches the pattern earlier, responds differently, or realises they are no longer being run by an old response.
She loves the architecture of this work — making the inner map visible, understanding how it developed, and helping clients use that map to navigate their lives and relationships differently.
A couple came to therapy caught in a repeating cycle that was leaving both of them feeling misunderstood and disconnected.
When she felt unsafe or uncertain, she would ask more questions, seek reassurance and try to establish exactly what had happened. He experienced this as criticism or mistrust and became defensive. His defensiveness then increased her sense that something was wrong, so she pushed harder. The more each tried to protect themselves and the relationship, the more disconnected they became.
Through mapping, we could see that this was not simply a communication problem. It was **protection meeting protection**.
Her response was connected to earlier experiences of betrayal and not feeling safe. His defensiveness was linked to a longstanding sensitivity to being misunderstood or feeling he was not enough. Each person’s protective response was unintentionally activating the other’s.
Once the cycle became visible, we identified where it could be interrupted. They developed shared language for recognising the pattern, learned to communicate the feeling underneath the reaction, and became clearer about whether they needed reassurance, presence, space or a practical solution.
Over time, they became able to catch the cycle earlier and respond differently.
What changed most was not simply their communication, but how they understood each other. They could see the person underneath the reaction rather than only the behaviour in front of them.
That is the kind of change I work toward: helping people see the pattern, understand what sits underneath it, and know what to do differently when it appears.
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