BA, M Ed, Grad Dip Psych, Post Grad Dip Psych, M Psych, MAPS
Hart Centre Certified
Please note: This Hart Psychologist is currently offering Online Counselling only. She is a caring, empathic and intuitive person who likes to provide a safe, peaceful and reflective environment where people can come to deepen their understanding of themselves and their partner and experiment with new ways of being together.
This Hart Psychologist has always held a strong interest and value in relationships. She enjoys working alongside couples as they gain insight into their process, consider their own and their partner’s wants and needs, make choices, and learn new ways of approaching familiar situations. This supports them in bringing about the changes that they hope for. She can help with negative emotional patterns, communication and conflict, family disputes, and a wide range of sexual problems, including orgasm disorders and porn addiction.
She enjoys all aspects of her psychological practice and also offers individual therapy for adults. She has special interest and experience in treating the effects of trauma and working with adults healing the scars of earlier difficult life experiences. She has experience working with a range of areas including: fertility problems, grief and loss, anxiety, depression, life planning, and life transitions.
Please note: This Hart therapist is currently offering Online Counselling only.
For over 12 years he has applied his warm, sensitive and caring approach to support individuals and couples as they struggle with important life decisions, challenges or quest for purpose. He seeks to assist his clients make wise decisions. His life experience and extensive training in different counselling methodologies, equip him to understand systemic relational conflict, with a sensitivity to the underlying developmental or life transition dynamics. He adapts his therapeutic role to the specific couple/person needs.
This Hart therapist invests his enthusiasm and energy into identifying each person’s strengths, from which he can guide rebuilding trust or hope in marital or personal distress. The joy from seeing a person awaken to a new reality in life is what he strives to achieve. He helps committed couples to benefit from a reinvigorated vital and intimate partnership. He believes every person deserves their experience-rich life journey to be fulfilling and purposeful. He incorporates the latest neurobiological understandings with the emotional underpinnings of human functioning to help each person or couple be the best they want to be for themselves, each other, and their family. He can offer individual therapy and support where an individual needs to resolve personal vulnerabilities or participate in individual therapy.
His professional development has focused on helping people build a critical reflective capacity. This enhances resilience within individuals and couples to the everyday life struggles that sometimes overwhelm. He has training certificates awarded from prominent world leaders in respective science-based specialties, in the primary areas of his interest. His ongoing professional development has focussed on couple therapies, trauma treatment, relationship repair, attachment bonding disruptions and resolution, internal family systems theory, sexual therapy, Asperger’s syndrome diagnosis, transactional analysis, narrative therapy, monitoring self-harm and suicidal ideation, personality disorder support, dissociation, understanding psychosis, dealing with child sexual abuse and veteran mental health.
He is motivated to honour and foster the spiritual, cultural and philosophical orientation of individuals. He respects all forms of gender relationships and is sensitive to multicultural and multifaith perspectives.
Following retirement from a corporate career, he has reinvigorated his motivation and passion for helping those in personal distress. Accordingly, with his deep understanding of the demands of corporate life and its influence on family dynamics, he is also equipped to support the needs of professionals and senior executives.
Please note: This Hart therapist is currently offering Online Counselling only.
This Hart therapist is a Psychotherapist, Counsellor and has trained in EMDR therapy. She provides Psychotherapy and Counselling services for individuals and couples. She is a warm and competent professional who welcomes diversity in all its wonderful forms and provides a safe and inclusive space for her clients.
This Hart therapist enjoys working with couples who might be in a committed relationship that has lost its way or a relationship recovering from infidelity or if their old patterns of interactions are no longer serving them.
Her practice is trauma-informed and provides clients with skills to explore their individual and shared stories, uncover blockages and habits that prevent them from achieving an authentic loving relationship and rekindle connection and intimacy.
She aims to support clients to improve their coping and communication skills and understanding of their needs and help them discover ways to grow together in a healthy relationship.
Her areas of expertise in working with couples include Relationship Breakdown, Post-separation, Communication Skills, Infidelity related issues, Anxiety, Grief and Loss and LGBTQI+ counselling.
She has extensive experience as a relationship and trauma counsellor, and has previously worked at Relationships Australia Tasmania and Relationships Australia Queensland. Currently, she also works at Sexual Assault Support Service along with running her private practice. She has experience working with family and relationship counselling, victims of crime counselling, redress counselling support and employee assistance counselling.
She received her Honours in Psychology and completed her Masters in Psychotherapy and Counselling from Western Sydney University. She is a clinical member of the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA).
This Hart therapist can also provide counselling in Hindi.
Please note: this Hart Psychologist is currently offering Online Counselling only
She has been a Registered Psychologist for ten years and prior to this was a counsellor for four years, specialising in developing intimacy in relationships. She understands the importance of relationships in life as a building block to higher achievement, and will help you help yourself by giving you practical skills you can work on immediately.
She has a special interest in individual and relationship counselling and seeing clients with sexual difficulties. This Hart Psychologist understands that relationships are rarely smooth sailing and that with some knowledge you can create the relationship that you really want, or move on in the least stressful way if this is the direction you wish to take.
In addition to seeing clients for relationship counselling and sexual difficulties, she is also available for appointments relating to Pre-Marriage Counselling, Anger Management, Narcissism, Porn Addiction, and is also available for phone/skype appointments if needed.
She is a warm and caring person, who will listen to both sides without judgement or bias, and will give you practical steps to ensure you both realise your full potential individually and in your relationship.
Please note: This Hart therapist is currently offering Online Counselling only.
This Hart therapist is a registered member of the Australian Counselling Association and is passionate about helping couples achieve their goals. She is fully aware of the significance of counselling to better the lives of the people she works with. She sees it as an enormous privilege to be trusted to hear her clients’ stories and relishes her role in being able to help transform the lives of many of her clients, whether choosing to commit more fully to their relationship or go their separate ways.
This Hart therapist works with each couple using proven, integrative approaches, drawing from diverse theories according to each clients’ needs or preferences. These include psychodynamic and psychoeducation approaches, integrative behaviour couples therapy and emotionally focused therapy. Couples are active participants in the room with her, as she works collaboratively with them to empower them to find the best solution to suit their current situation. She helps couples make sense of what they are experiencing by feeling heard, understood, and be motivated to change for a positive and successful outcome.
She started her work by helping individuals and couples ease through complex parenting transitions, encompassing a range of issues including life transitions adjustments, parent and family relationship difficulties, and communication issues. Inspired by the immense satisfaction of affecting genuine change for her clients, she shifted her focus to an area she sees as the true heart of human life: creating and maintaining strong and satisfying relationships, regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, cultural background or relationship status.
This Hart therapist is a fully insured and qualified counsellor, holding a Master of Counselling qualification specializing in couples therapy, a Graduate Diploma in Counselling and is a qualified pre-marital counsellor. She is constantly learning from her clients and they motivate her daily. She is driven by a deep desire to help transform the lives of others, and has witnessed how even the smallest of changes can lead to enormous improvements for the couples she works with.
She is a registered psychologist with over 18 years of diverse experience in private practice, as well as psychology consulting to the private sector in Australia, USA , Canada and UK. She is:
Psychology Board of Australia approved supervisor
Member of the Australian Association of Psychologists Inc
Master Practitioner in Clinical Counselling (MPCC)
Master Practitioner in Clinical Counselling Supervisor (MPCC-S) through the Canadian Professional Counsellors Association
This Hart psychologist is a published author, certified HeartMath coach, EMDR therapist, craniosacral therapist, somatic prenatal and birth therapist and accredited NLP trainer.
She is passionate about, and dedicated to working alongside couples and families to embrace the best version of themselves. She achieves this through the use of compassionate and empowering psychological solutions that are practical, easy to implement, and make a difference to people’s lives.
She completed a PhD at Bond University, specialising in building secure attachment within relationships.
She draws upon a wide range of approaches in her counselling sessions, including:
Enhanced bonding and attachment therapy for couples, families and individuals who want to create accountable and loving relationships
Mindfulness to live in the present. Free of old conditioning, patterns, negative & unhelpful beliefs, and stress, anxiety and depression
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) to address issues relating to self-esteem, self-worth and communication challenges
Positive Psychology
Conscious parenting techniques for parents wanting to create healthy and unconditionally loving relationships with their children.
Please note: This Hart therapist is currently offering Online Counselling only
This Hart therapist is a counsellor and psychotherapist, registered with the Australian Counselling Association. His therapeutic practice incorporates the idea that clients are the experts in their life. Together with Matt, clients will discover and collaborate preferred futures and new ways of working through life’s lessons.
He has developed the ability to work with a wide variety of clients and presenting issues including individual, couples, families and crisis support.
While completing a Bachelor of Psychology and Masters of Counselling, he began his career working within the National Disability Insurance Scheme, supporting and counselling families through the transition.
This experience has shown him how to support families and relationships through challenges by safely communicating hopes, boundaries, vulnerabilities and expectations. Some common themes he has worked through include: relationship ruptures, parenting, communication, intimacy, infidelity, conflict resolution, grief and loss.
Growing up, people would joke and say “have chats with Matt” as he has always been passionate about helping and supporting people. His calm and jovial nature fosters a welcoming environment to share your story and explore your journey.
