Video Relationship Counselling

This Hart therapist believes couple’s therapy is really being able to understand why we are the way we are. Our partner holds a mirror to us that reflects the best and worst parts of ourselves. She believes that unmet needs and unprocessed emotions manifest in behaviours and patterns that get replayed in our relationships. She aims to assist clients to gently recognise and reflect on themselves and their relationship to others. She tailors her approach the client and offers explanations and choices about how they want the therapy to proceed by setting goals, doing couple activities or keeping a journal. She particularly enjoys helping couples to examine their core values and beliefs.

She practices a person-centred approach, meaning the client is expert in their experience, the therapist is there to support growth and healing in the gentlest way possible. She believes that healing starts in a safe and trusting relationship between client and therapist. She practices a variety of modalities depending on the client’s needs. Within relationships, she works with loss of connection, communication difficulties, increasing intimacy, parenting tensions, unmet needs, expectations, cultural differences, affairs, separation and divorce, life-transitions, and grief and loss. She also has experience working with children and young people who may also be impacted by family tensions. She assists couples to move through each season of life, encouraging them increase empathy, patience and understand their relationship dynamics and patterns.

She is a mother and plant lover.  She started her academic journey with a keen interest in sociology, only to find herself drawn to people, relationships and the bright inner worlds of children and infants. She has been working in the community non-profit sector with traumatised adults, children and young people for 10 years. She also teaches post graduate counselling students and is a clinical member of PACFA.

Our Hart therapist’s empathetic and non-judgmental approach creates a nurturing environment, where couples can explore their emotions, and collaboratively pursue enduring and positive transformations in their relationships.

Beyond her expertise in relationship counselling, her qualifications extend to grief and loss, holding a Graduate Certificate in Bereavement Counselling and Intervention. She has provided invaluable support to individuals and couples in navigating the emotional challenges of loss, and guiding them through complex legal processes during such trying times.

Our Hart therapist helps you learn and practice new relationship skills, including improving communication, re-establishing trust and intimacy, re-pairing after conflict, co-parenting effectively, and connecting with one another from a place of vulnerability. She will share her thoughts, ideas and specialist knowledge along the way.

She has worked as a couple and family therapist in private practice, community organisations, child and adolescent mental health, and family services.

Our Hart psychologist works collaboratively to co-create an inviting therapeutic space, that is safe for exploring and understanding inner experiences and relationship dynamics, that at times may be troubling and painful. She recognises that sensitive curiousity and a non-judgemental approach are fundamental to establishing trust within the therapeutic relationship. This creates opportunity to progress towards internal change, fulfilling relationships, and contentment in life. She also considers there to be a place for playfulness within therapeutic interactions, which can inspire new developments and growth.

She closely attends to shared problems with great care, to appreciate their unique qualities, and tailor the therapeutic approach for the specific needs identified. She listens carefully, and works to understand the deeper and underlying processes that create undesirable states and patterns. For couples, this includes disharmony and loss of intimacy.

Her focus is establishing authentic self-expression, that empowers change by shaping life experiences according to personal values, needs and aspirations.

Our Hart therapist’s philosophy is that the relationship is her client. She offers understanding and tools to best serve the relationship, which is in line with the couple’s own goals.

She uses a blend of research based, therapeutic modalities, to best suit the couple and their relationship goals.

By reconnecting with the body’s responses to certain behavioural or environmental factors, she helps her clients make sense of their experiences on a deeper level. She supports her clients to bring about meaningful, positive change in their lives by helping them understand how their past is impacting their present.

Understanding the sensitive nature surrounding topics of gender, sex and sexuality, she holds a safe space to work through difficult issues. She is easy to talk to, approaching her clients with warmth and a judgement free disposition. Her humanistic approach to therapy helps break down barriers, provide clients with the tools to communicate their needs and can reinforce key relationships in client’s lives.

Our Hart therapist practices with the understanding that life changing therapy is a journey, not a cure-all or quick fix. All gendered, sexual, racial and cultural identities are welcome and will be respected.

Prior to retraining in counselling, this therapist worked in education for thirty years including working in schools, aid, and development projects, and within universities. She has extensive experience working in remote First Nations communities in Australia. She has also lived, worked and studied in Canada, the Pacific, South East Asia and the Balkans. Her diverse background provides a strong professional foundation for her counselling practice.

Our Hart therapist creates a warm, caring, empathetic, and collaborative environment that fosters self-connection and relationship satisfaction and health. She supports clients in navigating transitions and overcoming relationship challenges, to improve their relationships with their partners, family, friends, colleagues, and oneself. She recognises the importance of enhancing communication skills, to encourage self-awareness, compassion, resilience, responsiveness, security, flexibility and intimacy.

She believes the quality of our relationships impacts our lives. She uses a range of therapy approaches to help her clients flourish in loving and long-lasting relationships, understanding that secure attachment bonds have positive effects on mental health, neurobiology and the immune system. She uses a non-pathologizing approach to promote healthy emotional experiences.

The primary modalities that she uses are Person-Centred care, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Emotionally focused therapy, Play therapy, Gottman therapy techniques, Mindfulness, Compassionate Inquiry, and aspects of Acceptance Commitment Therapy. She has experience working with mood and anxiety disorders, burnout, eating disorders, psychotic disorders, personality deviations, and autistic and other neurodivergent people. She integrates evidence-based strategies to help clients with their emotional and cognitive health, life satisfaction, emotional security, flexibility and self-awareness.

In her free time, she enjoys marathon running, cycling, teaching Yoga, tramping at National parks, and creating nourishing plant-based meals for her family and friends.

Prior to becoming a counsellor, she worked all over the world (UK, Europe, Hong Kong, and Australia) as a nurse and midwife. She has also served in the British Army.

Originally from the UK, she has had the experience of establishing a new life in Australia and the challenges that brings to your family.

Over the years, she has experienced her own life traumas, and strongly believes in the importance of being heard and understood. If you are feeling isolated, alone, or overwhelmed, this therapist can help navigate your difficult emotions in a respectful private confidential space.

She understands that life can throw us many challenges. Through counselling, she aims to help you deal with your complex thoughts, beliefs and traumatic experiences. This will enable you to take your first step towards successful healing. Sometimes we just need someone to talk to.

She approaches difficulties in a strength-based way, using methods such as Person-Centred Therapy, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, Internal Family Systems, Attachment Theory, Solution Focused Therapy, Trauma-informed care, Gottman, and Emotional Focused Therapy.
She has extensive experience working with individuals and couples dealing with relationship difficulties, communication issues, and mental health difficulties such as anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, and grief and loss. Also, perinatal difficulties including early parenting, and antenatal and postnatal depression.

With her knowledge of what creates a resilient, fulfilling, and connected relationship, she works collaboratively to build an effective therapeutic relationship, which is fundamental to bringing about meaningful change, and establishing more desired ways of thinking, behaving, and relating.

She works sensitively and thoughtfully to uncover what has contributed to developing problems and skilfully works through them to find new ways forward. She recognises the importance of the attachment system, and works to increase trust and security in relationships. She helps in supporting communication processes, deepening (intimate) connections, strengthening boundaries, and increasing emotional stability.

Our Hart therapist is a group facilitator and has delivered workshops, conference papers and training sessions in relationships and change management. He is also a trained experienced mediator.

He presently works in private practice as an accredited Mental Health Social Worker counsellor with rooms in Cooranbong and Morisset. As well as his counselling, he is a consultant and policy advisor in child protection to NGOs and private industry.

Our Hart therapist enjoys working with couples at all stages in their relationship, including those navigating communication problems, family of origin issues, sexual issues, betrayals, grief, polyamorous situations, parenting issues and blended families. She is able to work with couples seeking to separate well or to navigate co-parenting after separation. She is an LGBTQIA+ ally.

As a therapist working with a family group, she seeks to make space for everyone’s perspective and to create the conditions that enable you to hear each other in ways that can be difficult outside the therapy room. The focus is on the qualities and dynamics of the relationships.

As a Family Therapy trained practitioner, she considers your relationships and your relational context when working with you as an individual. She works with people seeking personal growth and change, on issues including depression and anxiety, stress, identity, sexuality, relationship problems, navigating life-stage changes, finding purpose, grief and loss.

Her approach is informed by an awareness of our physicality and our spirituality and may draw upon elements of breath-work, visualisation and mindfulness. She believes that personal change is a multifaceted process and involves the dynamic interplay of the different dimensions of our selves.

Our Hart therapist enjoys working with couples, aiming to create an emotionally safe space for growth and problem solving. He has learned that the couple relationship is the most important, and often the most challenging area in life. He is grateful to have the role of supporting couples through difficult times, a role which helps not only the couples but many others in the world around them.

Life and relationships are never simple or “one size fits all”. He has learned to be open to each unique couple and their situation, and to tailor counselling to their needs and goals. He is couple-focussed, and seeks to provide the most professional, supportive, and effective service to each and every couple he works with.

He has a special interest and skills in situations where a third-party is impacting a relationship. Examples of third-parties can be in-laws, children, other family, friends, and affairs. He also works with couples where one or both members have mental illness, personality disorder, addictions, trauma, and other issues.

The relationship between this therapist and couples won’t be founded on a set of preconceived ideas or judgments. She will set out with the couples to fully explore their concerns and needs and respond to them in ways that acknowledge their uniqueness, values, and background. She will draw on her experience, skills, and intuition, as well as their strengths, perspectives, and experiences, to work towards achieving their goals.

She has conducted research, completed extra training, and has experience working with ADHD and trauma.

She is passionate about helping couples who are distressed and despairing, find their way back to connection and then to successful lives individually and as a couple. She is trained in the use of the Developmental model, the Gottman model and Relational Life Therapy for couples, as well as Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, ACT and EMDR, amongst other modalities.

Her clients appreciate the kind, supportive yet gently challenging environment she provides, enabling them to flourish in their lives and relationships.

This Hart therapist brings 17 years of training and experience as a relationship counsellor and is a certified practicing registrant with PACFA and clinical counsellor with CCAA. She specialises in areas such as:

• Processing emotions and expand responses
• Fostering a secure bond
• Strategies to repair relationships and attachment injuries
• Identifying negative cycles of communication and behaviours
• Building love maps and appreciation within the relationship
• Conflict strategies
• Identifying values and needs
• Stress reduction techniques
• Ways to Create new kinds of interaction
• Rogerian interventions
• Building trust and security

This Hart psychologist provides a tailored approach to individual client’s needs, drawing on and integrating a range of evidence-based treatments including cognitive and behaviour, acceptance and commitment, schema, dialectical behaviour therapy, solution-focused, EMDR and others.

Individuals presenting to the clinic commonly seek assistance with the following problems (although this is far from an exhaustive list): relational issues, anxiety, depression, sleep disturbance, stress, trauma (PTSD), work and or domestic stressors, alcohol/drug misuse, grief and loss.

He believes relationships are central to life and he is passionate about supporting individuals and couples to achieve their relationship goals. He has extensive experience assisting couples in distress, couples or individuals navigate affairs and breaches of trust, porn addiction and intimacy issues.

She provides safety, non judgement and a genuine interest in all that work with her. She has a background in clinical hypnotherapy which enables her to offer alternative ways to overcome the core beliefs formed in childhood.

She is genuine, respectful and loves working with others to achieve their goals.

With a focus on helping clients develop secure relationships, she uses her integrative approach, drawing from various counseling approaches, to address systemic relational conflicts and adapt to each couple’s unique needs. She is passionate about helping clients improve their sense of self and develop hope for improved relationships. She is also sensitive to multicultural and multi-faith perspectives, honoring and fostering the spiritual, cultural, and philosophical orientations of her clients.

If you’re seeking couples therapy or marital preparation, she can provide expert guidance and support to help you and your partner navigate your relationship challenges and achieve a more fulfilling and connected partnership.

Partnered for 19 years and with a young daughter, this Hart therapist is deeply interested in collaborating with clients who are partnered or married in exploring the full range of complex dynamics in their relationship. Working together in a contained, safe, caring therapeutic environment that regards and attends to each person, he encourages couples to face each other, practice renewed listening, and through emerging awareness begin to understand each other’s needs and aspirations for the relationship. He supports couples to enhance the existing health of their relationship with clearer communication and greater sensitivity. He assists couples in seeking repair, or ways forward after challenge, hurt or confusion. In this way, he believes potential conflict, disconnection, and repeating patterns that may hinder emotional well-being and satisfaction in the relationship can be addressed. He also understands that couples may need support for safe and respectful separation. In each case, a careful, collaborative approach to creating shared awareness and potential subsequent change underpins all sessions.

His approach is holistic and integrative. He has a Master’s degree in contemporary relational Gestalt Therapy, and advanced skills training in couples work including in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for couples. A client’s total situation is considered, including environmental, physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of experience. In couples therapy, the relationship is the client, and each of these dimensions are part of the processes by which people and things ‘take shape’ in relationships. He is attentive to the emergence of ‘good form’ or harmonious configurations for people in relationship with others, themselves, and the world. He works with compassion, kindness, equanimity, empathy, and humour in dialogue with clients to build awareness and shared understanding of the complexities of their situation. He believes that with this awareness, self-acceptance and support, and by gently challenging fixed or stuck relational patterns, change is possible.

This Hart therapist’s life experience and comprehensive training in psychology, counselling, and psychotherapy, provide her with the knowledge and skills to assist you to explore, identify and understand the patterns of your behaviour. She sees her role as helping you to modify unhelpful patterns and offer support as you navigate change in order to live a healthier, happier, and more productive life.

Using evidence-based approaches and interventions, she will individualise your therapy sessions in line with your goals and needs and reflecting your unique life experiences. Through mutual trust and collaboration, together you will find what works best for you, as she respects ‘you’ as the expert of your life.

With compassion and understanding, she brings genuine interest and curiosity into your therapy sessions, so you may feel heard, understood, and appreciated. Her goal is for you to leave with a better understanding of yourself and others so you may achieve psychological and emotional health and well-being and move forward with a sense of hope and empowerment.

One of her many favourite quotes is this one from Carl Rogers:
“The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination”.

Rogers’ view was that the good life is not an outcome to be achieved but rather a process that we have to be constantly engaged with to be continually moving towards.

This Hart therapist works with couples to explore their own relational dynamic or ‘dance’ and apply proven strategies in the development of a more fulfilling, happier and stronger relationship.
Ultimately, she aims is to co-facilitate personal growth and the creation of a more meaningful and values congruent life. She seeks to optimise therapeutic outcomes through use of a strengths based, feedback informed approach.

This Hart therapist has a warm and engaging manner, and brings compassion, empathy and expertise to her work. She respects each couples unique ‘story’ and situation, and tailors her approach accordingly. She uses a number of evidence-based therapies to support this process.

She supports her clients in becoming more aware of problematic thoughts, beliefs, feelings and behaviours, and how they can negatively influence a couple’s relationship dynamic.

Knowing that communication is often a major issue for couples, she supports her clients in working through difficult conversations – allowing each to identify issues, and express their emotions, needs, and hopes. She believes this is one of the most important ways she can support clients to make positive change, and move forward in their relationships and lives.

She is passionate about focusing on the strengths of each individual and the relationship – helping a couple to gain more confidence, and to realise they can make the changes they need and want to.

This Hart therapist believes that adverse events not only affect people’s behavior but also have negative effects on their personal growth and their relationships. He believes that humans have an enormous capacity to heal, grow, and love which can be unlocked through the therapeutic process.

This Hart therapist is passionate about providing a caring and quality service, that empowers clients to make genuine and long-lasting positive changes to their personal lives and relationships. As a counsellor, he encourages and helps clients and their families find hope, and guides them onto a path of personal and relational restoration, wholeness, and overall health. Clients are treated with empathy and respect, free of judgment and bias, as they unpack their unique stories, and work toward agreed client-approved goals and targets. As a counsellor, he simply acts as a guide and facilitator, working with the client to develop a counselling and action plan specific to their particular needs.

The model of counselling used is an integrated, client-centred approach that looks at the past and the present, helping clients become self-aware of the root causes of challenges they are facing, and how to go about addressing them.  He uses his sound knowledge and skill of a wide range of evidence-based, proven therapies including Bowen family systems methodologies, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Gottman Method Couples Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment therapy, Mindfulness, and Narrative therapy.  The aim is to address the whole person; their mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical health; as well as their social and relational wellbeing.  He helps clients, couples and families discover their unused opportunities and strengths, along with guiding them to build practical new skill sets that enable them to go on to live sustainable, self-empowered fulfilling lives.  He also provides counselling for those living with and/or supporting those who are in need of help.

In particular, over the last ten years, his interest and learning in the field of couples work has grown exponentially. He is trained in Gottman therapeutic tools and processes and loves how the approach is based on Dr. John Gottman’s more than 40 years of research and experience. He is a constant reader and learner, and loves to bring that learning into the counselling room.

Special interests and experience include: conflict & communication issues, gridlocks, emotional control and regulation, infidelity, relationship confusion, addictions (gambling, porn, alcohol and drug), sex and intimacy issues as well as anxiety and depression.

In a past life, he worked in the corporate world in the field of organisational psychology and human resources and so understands some of the issues and stressors that come with needing to earn a living, finding or changing careers and dealing with all manner of workplace-related issues.

This Hart therapist provides a compassionate and calming presence in the room. She offers therapeutic tools that facilitate a ‘working through’ of challenges, exploration of feelings, and a connection to your own inner resources and wisdom. This person-centred process empowers you to make choices that are based on a more authentic and secure sense of self.

She sees her role as that of a companion and witness. She supports you to take small yet very effective steps towards ‘showing up’ for yourself. She is committed to providing you with the best in self-care that therapy can offer, helping you to transform challenging times into greater self knowledge, and growth.

Her approach and objectives in counselling are to help her clients achieve self-empowerment, personal growth, increased emotional resiliency, self-healing, and lasting transferable life skills that promote mental wellbeing.

In her sessions, clients are drivers of their own counselling goals. She brings her expertise and experience to support them, by tailoring her interventions to everyone’s unique needs (client-centric).

She works with clients (individually, couples, or group) that experience issues such as: addiction, anger, depression, anxiety, careers counselling, childhood or adolescent issues, communication issues, conflict resolution, cultural & racial identity, existential or spiritual issues, family or parenting, gambling or gaming, grief and loss, LGBTQIA+ issues, life transitions, low self-esteem, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), rehabilitation, relationship issues, sex and sexual issues, social coping skills, and trauma recovery.

As a couples counselor, this Hart therapist does not see himself as some kind of magician who has the magical solution to all of your problems. You might recognize the futility of trying to “force” someone to change their bad habits and improve themselves, like your parents, friends, or even your partner! Instead, he recognizes that the best therapy happens when clients are eager to work on their challenges, face their fears, and accept their shortcomings, in the context of relational safety. This places him squarely in the role of a facilitator, assisting you in the process rather than telling you what to do.

His approach is developmentally focused, which acknowledges how events in your early life and foundational relationships may now be impacting your relationships as an adult. He acknowledges the impact that trauma and attachment issues can have on your ability to trust and feel safe with your partner. Additionally, he is influenced by the Gottman Method, Imago Relationship Therapy, Mentalization-Based Therapy, and the Enneagram of personality.

He is passionate about helping you to formulate goals for therapy and your life together, and learning how to work as a team towards those goals. He aims to foster better communication between partners, and adopts a direct, yet compassionate style when engaging with his clients.

This Hart therapist works with individual and couples who would like to overcome difficulties in their current situation. Each client and each couple is unique hence requires a personal counselling approach that is catered entirely for them. Her approach incorporates empathy, professionalism and mindfulness. Many individuals may find themselves experiencing various financial, mental and / or physical struggles.

She has worked with a wide range of people of all ages and from all walks of life. As a therapist, she works with various counselling approaches such as: Humanistic Approach, CBT, ACT and additionally EFT – Tapping, Hypnosis and Art Therapy. She offers her clients a wide range of approaches with a more rapid and lasting outcome. She is dedicated to helping others unlock and unleash their full potential. Her life experience and skills as a Counsellor, NLP Life- and Business Coach gives her an unique mix of knowledge and tools to awaken your inner awesome.

This Hart therapist has extensive academic qualifications in the sciences, including psychology. His diverse professional background includes experience in hospital pharmacy, social work and teaching – as well as provision of psychology services in a range of settings. He has worked in psychology since 1980 – as a senior clinical psychologist in prisons, general and psychiatric hospitals, university counselling services, drug and alcohol clinics and in private practice. He has also provided consultancy services to Ngala Hospital, Racing and Wagering WA, Perth Human Sexuality Centre, the WA Police and the Commonwealth Department of Defence.

Having established his own private practice in Perth more than 30 years ago, he works with clients in a collaborative process to achieve the relationship goals they are seeking. He adopts a broad-spectrum approach to counselling, synthesizing the learnings of different schools of psychotherapy, as appropriate to the needs of the individual. Therapy is tailored to the preferences, circumstances and desired outcomes of the client.

His particular approach may include aspects of cognitive- behavioural therapy, Jungian Oriented Dreamwork, transactional analysis and Gestalt Therapy, as appropriate. Couples counselling is more ‘here-and-now’ focussed, with the emphasis on communication and conflict-resolution

Whether it is a couple, family or other relationship, this Hart therapist can help you to identify, understand and change areas that may be causing you worry and distress. Your relationship is unique and so too are its circumstances and challenges. Online consultation is also available.

In her sessions, she focuses on the health of the relationship as her main focus. She adds insight, care and humour into her sessions. She is an advocate of thoughtfulness and authenticity and she brings her compassionate yet honest attitude in to her sessions as a way of modelling. Where couples decide to separate, she supports both parties’ needs and facilitates a safe space for couples to navigate through that painful process.

She also works with separated parents who are both committed to establish healthy ways for co-parenting.

This therapist does not offer mediation.

This may involve working to nurture and improve an existing relationship or reflecting on what’s not working well. She works from the basis that relationships are complex and require lifelong attention. In her practice, she has found that when personal relationships are not working well, the ability to cope with other areas of life and often affected too.

This hart therapist is warm and inviting, open and insightful. She is passionate about assisting couples to feel more in tune with each other, improve communication and connect at a deeper level. She works hard to ensure a safe and supportive space for individuals and couples to explore their inner world and that of their partners.

Her therapeutic approach draws from a range of overarching frameworks including family systems, psychodynamic psychotherapy, emotion focused therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy and couple and family therapy.

She works with individuals and couples experiencing a range of difficulties including communication, sex, desire and intimacy, infidelity, parenting, addictions, navigating the online space, grief, loss, infertility, the joining of two families and separation.

The first counselling session aims to obtain a ‘helicopter’ view of the relationship or issue. This may include the difficulties that have brought the couple to counselling, the history of the problem, what the couple would like to get out of the sessions and some information about past experiences. This then becomes useful in subsequent sessions to address the important matters as they arise.

This hart therapist believes therapy shouldn’t feel like a rigid corset or tight pants, but like something that can be moulded and shaped to suit you and where you are at, both mentally and physically, and together you will work on creating the perfect fit.

Change comes differently to different people and before it can happen, one has to gain new knowledge and awareness about themselves. Her approach is warm, genuine and empathic and based on learning scientifically sound and proven information about you, developing awareness of how this new knowledge applies and is affecting you, and then choosing if and what to change and how to do it.

Dynamically integrating a range of modalities whilst empathically and compassionately working with clients, he helps others gain awareness, understanding and choice that unburdens their minds and builds deeper connections to themselves and the ones they care about, no matter the circumstances in which they appear.

As a therapist, he is acutely aware of the courage and vulnerability counselling sessions can take, and strives to make therapy ‘not feel like therapy’. Clients are often amazed that even difficult changes can occur quite seamlessly in sessions when it’s only felt like a conversation.

With a passion for understanding the human mindset and how we can thrive as human beings, this hart therapist has a genuine desire to see people flourish and succeed in the areas that matter to them most.

Empathic and caring, she is committed to building trusting relationships. She offers a supportive environment so you can tell your story. By asking incisive questions, over time she gets to the core of your issues. In this way, we can find workable solutions to life’s challenges.

She is a Member of the Australian Psychological Society. She is trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Mindfulness Therapies, Eye Movement Desensitisation & Reprocessing (EMDR), Emotional Freedom Techniques & Tapping (EFT), Schema Therapy, Gottman Relationship Counselling Level 2, other Trauma Related Therapies.

When couples are feeling stuck in intricate patterns in their lives, she can provide effective tools and strategies that help you both achieve your desired outcomes.

She possesses diverse expertise is to support clients who are experiencing; relationship issues, parenting, and child related issues, post-traumatic stress symptoms, post-natal and peri-menopausal mood fluctuations, insomnia, career-related stress, and post-retirement life challenges amongst some of the many challenges that we can face.

She is client-centred and outcome-focused in her approach to counselling.

Sessions are tailored to meet your unique needs and circumstances.

Outside of work, this hart therapist enjoys spending time with her husband and daughter, and she especially loves walking her dog on the beach at sunrise.

This Hart therapist’s practice combines experience and knowledge with care and compassion. She provides a strong client centred approach, working collaboratively with couples to identify priorities, support wellbeing and work towards positive change. She believes it is important that couples gain hope, relief and a way forward right from the first session.

In her work with couples, she offers valuable tools to reduce stress and build communication confidence and competence. She also offers the opportunity to connect current relationship patterns with past life experiences, with the aim of assisting clients to gain new perspectives and greater insight and empathy for themselves and each other.

She assists a wide variety of individuals and couples from diverse cultural backgrounds and couples from LGBTIQ+ communities.

She has extensive experience working with individuals and couples who may be struggling with anxiety, depression, anger, past or current trauma and abuse, grief and loss, relationships difficulties across the life cycle, parenting struggles, separation and divorce and other life transitions. She also offers step family formation and transition work; recovery from experiences of family violence/ trauma and assistance to take responsibility for harmful behaviours in relationships.

She has a commitment to gain regular feedback from her clients, in order to create a safe and effective therapeutic relationship. She uses this feedback to inform her work, and is able to employ a combination of evidenced based relationship therapies, such as Emotion Focused Couples Therapy, Gottman and interpersonal neurobiological methods. She is also able to employ Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), systemic and narrative therapies.

Whether you are experiencing relationship or marital issues, life challenges and stress, communication difficulties, or simply feeling stuck, this therapist is dedicated to supporting you. She offers tools that enhance wellbeing and foster more effective communication, both individually, and in partnership with those you love and care for.

Following the well-known Gottman method in couples counselling, she offers valuable tools to help rebuild foundations and healthier lines of communication, to establish a more caring and loving relationship. With the belief that “healthy relationships are cultivated”, she emphasises the importance of building and rekindling friendship to help couples work through their differences.

In relationships, a deep connection can sometimes include pain. However, by consciously expressing fondness and admiration, couples can learn to manage conflict in order to create shared meaning.

This therapist nurtures a safe and confidential environment, for all couples and individuals to express themselves freely and openly about their concerns and desired outcomes. This respectful environment is developed by people talking about themselves and their experiences, thoughts and feelings, relationships, and behaviours, all the while knowing that they are being listened to and heard.

She utilises a range of techniques from evidence-based practices including but not limited to:
– Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
– Cognitive-Based Therapy
– Mindfulness, and Meditation.

She is a passionate supporter of LGBTQIA+ Communities.

She feels humbled and privileged to be allowed into her client’s world, and is passionate about the power of therapy and the therapeutic relationship.

This hart therapist brings a wealth of counselling experience having worked extensively across the corporate, scholastic, and correctional sectors. Utilising lessons learned from this diverse audience now enables him to ensure clients feel safe and validated.

He works to create a calm and supporting environment, where clients can open up and feel empowered to make decisions toward lasting change. Having a real understanding that life can be difficult and challenging at times, he provides empathy and guidance to help direct you towards your goals.

This hart therapist is a mum, wife, teacher and counsellor. She began her journey supporting families and children as a teacher. Fuelled by her passion to do more and help kids and their families, she gained her Masters in Guidance and Counselling.

Her passion for relationship counselling was ignited as she realised that the best way to support children was to support their adults to build health and flourishing relationships. Her professional journey led her to indigenous communities in Cape York where she and her hubby remained for 6 years. This time on The Cape deeply shaped her practice and gave her extensive experience working with people with complex needs and backgrounds.

Today, she uses her vast professional experience and taps into her personal journey as a wife and mum to practically support couples both as individuals and a joined whole. She supports clients on the Gold Coast in Queensland Australia and online worldwide. Motivated to help people work smarter in their relationships and improve their heart connection she delights in supporting people to find simple and personal strategies that transform lives and relationships from the inside out.

Our Hart therapist understands that no two people are the same, and tailors her therapeutic approach for the individual. She firmly believes every person has the ability to find the answers deep inside and believes it is her job to work with them to get there.

She specialises in:

– Acceptance and commitment therapy

– Solution focused therapy

– Emotion focused therapy

– Person centred therapy

– CBT

Strength based therapy

As a keen witness and agent of change, our Hart therapist is excited and committed to accompany you along your journey of growth, healing and transformation. It is never too late to make a change and it is always a great time to start!

This Hart therapist has an extensive background of helping people from all walks of life make successful career decisions transitions. She is able to understand the impact on mental health and relationships when our life doesn’t go as we planned.

With a particular focus on working with relationships in distress, she has been described as a calm presence; able to instill confidence and hope for success. She continues to hone her skills in psychotherapy and actively invests in her personal development.

This Hart therapist’s counselling style is relaxed and person-led, therefore her sessions will feel conversational in nature as she strives to create a safe, comfortable space for you to explore your inner wisdom and uncover hidden parts of yourself. The privilege of being invited into the most vulnerable places of the soul and heart is something she honours, by meeting her clients where they are at with compassion, empathy, and a non-judgmental stance. Believing that couples therapy is a journey that takes courage, she works with individuals and couples to find strength in vulnerability, helping each person connect more deeply with themselves and those they love.

Relationships are fundamental to our wellbeing, and there is nothing more painful than feeling disconnected from our partner. She works with couples to help them regain harmony and a felt sense of connection that they’ve been looking for, but haven’t been able to find on their own. As an Emotionally Focused Therapist, she works to help couples understand each other more clearly, to recognize the unique patterns in the dance of their relationship and how they can move toward connection by changing the steps of their dance together. This is a collaborative process that utilizes the present moment to experience something new, a shift in perspective, a new way of communicating, so that couples are equipped to practice a new way of being and doing outside of therapy room where long-lasting change is achieved.

An integrative couples therapist, she also draws on mindfulness-based, client-centred, cognitive behavioural, and psychodynamic approaches, tailoring sessions to meet the unique needs and preferences of her clients. She has a particular interest in working with couples following an infidelity or other relationship rupture, couples seeking greater intimacy, diverse couples, individuals and couples impacted by trauma, grief and loss, and significant life transitions (eg. moving countries, ex-pat life, FIFO workers, etc.)

Alongside being a therapist, she continues to work in Africa, where she lived as an ex-pat, supporting schools to be places of safety and wellbeing. Her self-care strategies include walks in nature, regular yoga and nurturing her key relationships with her adult children, partner, family and friends from which she draws encouragement and strength.

I am a warm and empathetic professional trained in counselling and nursing to help you be seen and heard to find clarity, overcome barriers, make change, plan , grow into a stronger more resilient you/couple. Working together to find ways for you to cope, improve and manage relationship difficulties, anxiety, stress, grief & loss, low self-esteem and medical/health issues.

I am relationship/couples counsellor, practicing within a framework of Client Centred Therapy, incorporating Gottman Method Couples Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Humanistic theory and Mindfulness to achieve an individually tailored plan to support clients reach their needs and goals.

I have gained my knowledge, skills and academic achievements in teaching, assessing and mentoring which are incorporated into my passion and interest in relationship counselling.

This Hart therapist works with adults, children and adolescents to create positive outcomes for people to change their lives. She provides a safe and confidential environment where everyone including couples, families, children and adults can explore their feelings and experiences. It is here that people can truly understand and accept themselves and move forward into an inspired life.

She recognises that counselling can be confronting to begin with, but has seen first-hand the positive changes that counselling can have. She encourages you if you want to change or are facing difficulties in your life to take a leap of faith and believe that life can be better and that you can live life to your greatest potential with the help of counselling.

This Hart therapist works with clients in a safe, accepting, and non-judgmental way and supports the clients to develop different perspectives, challenge thoughts and gain self-awareness.

She provides tools, resources, and knowledge to help the client to achieve their goals and desires. She creates a rewarding relationship with her clients to help them to obtain a renewed sense of wellbeing.

She utilises Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Solution Focused Therapy in order to meet the client’s therapeutic needs.

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.

She is a registered and experienced counsellor, who has experience working with individuals, couples, and families with complex needs, including people from refugee backgrounds, and separated families. These experiences enable her to work with cultural sensitivity, using an integrative and trauma-informed approach. This means that she uses various approaches to suit clients’ needs.

This Hart therapist believes that most emotional and psychological distress stems from relational trauma or pain. Thus, her approach involves considering clients’ relationship struggles in the context of their life experiences, particularly their early attachment experiences.

She draws from her trainings in Systemic Couple and Family Therapy and Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT) approaches, to develop long-lasting change for clients.

Using the evidence-based EFT approach, she is able to help couples to identify negative patterns in their relationship that contribute to their relationship distress and help them co-create a secure emotional bond with each other.

She supports individuals to address issues such as low self-esteem, anxiety, loss of a relationship/separation, anger management and emotional regulation to achieve thriving relationships.

She is passionate about helping clients to develop secure relationships, which enables them to have better emotional balance in their lives. Her approach to relationship counselling enables clients to improve their sense of self and develop hope that their relationships can be improved.

This Hart Social Worker is passionate about personal growth, and has studied both social work and psychological courses. He has worked with in various organisations such as homeless shelters and care work facilities for both the aged and intellectually disabled.

In addition, he has extensive qualifications and experience in Family dispute and conflict resolution.

His values rest in a belief that people need to be heard, appreciated and understood and that all people want to be loved and belong. This is the foundation of his approach.

We are all unique individuals and his therapeutic approach is designed to accommodate this.

His long history of relationship/mental health counselling has led to further accreditation and recognition to the highest possible standard, enabling him to establish his own private practice.

His life’s journey has enabled him to offer a combination of extensive experience, genuine compassion, personal understanding and knowledge in helping others through life’s difficulties.

Working from a value based person-centred approach, she is able to connect with her clients on an individual level and establish a practical plan to initiate and evaluate change. She understands the barriers to accessing support and works within her client’s perspective to gain and maintain a personal commitment to growth.

This Hart therapist is passionate about assisting people to unlock their unconscious barriers to growth, overcome self-sabotage and recognise their ability to self-fulfill. Giving hope to the hopeless and power to the powerless forms the basis of the support that she offers.

She brings a diversity of experience in both a personal and professional context. She has worked extensively to broaden her knowledge with specialised training in managing high conflict and trauma with a firm and respectful approach. She provides a non-judgemental, safe space to explore client’s deepest fears and reconnect with their authentic self.

This Hart therapist has completed a post graduate diploma at ACAP with distinction. As part of her studies she spent time counselling a variety of clients at allied health, which focused on people who were experiencing both short and long term unemployment and a range of mental health issues. Her warm professional and confident manner helped her guide her clients to a more positive outcome incorporating a combination of her trainings.

Her life experience which has included thirty years of working in the corporate space and running her own business as well as the challenges of parenting three adult children has put her in good stead to understand and respect life’s many challenges and transitions.

A client working with this Hart therapist will benefit from her excellent communication skills and empathy. She specialises in person centred and solution focused therapy, in the belief that it is the client who is in the best position to make change.

This Hart psychologist is passionate about working with people to enhance their quality of life and promote lasting psychological and emotional wellbeing, using evidence-based approaches. She uses a collaborative approach with clients with emphasis placed on mutual trust and respect, to empower individuals to develop insight and understanding of their own unique patterns and ways of responding to life circumstances.

From this, clients develop effective strategies that will help them to move forward and make positive changes. She views clients as individuals who bring to therapy their own unique experiences, beliefs, thoughts and circumstances and as such she tailors each session to best fit the client’s personal therapeutic needs. She uses a client-centred approach, drawing on a number of counselling models and techniques including: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, EMDR, and Schema Therapy.

She strongly believes that we can all live a life of meaning, purpose and fulfilment, and is passionate about working with people to achieve this.

This Hart therapist has had direct experience working in post separation, family, and domestic violence. He has worked extensively in mental health and has a thorough understanding of the mental health system. He helps couples and families with general issues such as parenting, adolescence, divorce / separation, and grief and loss. He also specialises in interpersonal and couple conflict, affairs and long standing, and seemingly entrenched relationship difficulties.

He brings openness and positivity to his work, with the aim of activating optimism and hope.

He is diligent in keeping his skills and knowledge up to date and ensures he receives regular supervision and feedback about his work.

This Hart therapist works with both adult men and women as well as adolescents. He also works with men both young and old, focused on issues around relationships, parenting issues including those related to step/blended families, perpetrators of domestic violence as well as those experiencing domestic violence in their intimate relationships and clients going through separation and divorce.

He believes that no matter who we are, we can all benefit from talking to somebody about issues and challenges that affect our lives. If you are having issues with your relationships or an emotional breakdown due to divorce, failure, or loss of a loved one.

He tailors his approach to each individual client’s therapeutic needs, combining a wide range of therapeutic approaches. These include, Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy, Solution Focused Brief Therapy, Gottman method, Mindfulness-Based Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment Theory, person centred and trauma-informed approaches.

By exploring an area of concern in life and seeking insight into limiting beliefs/perceptions her sessions teach clients how to use conscious thinking and deepen connection to feelings to transform through challenging times.

She specialises in Fertility/IVF/Babymaking with couples and individuals having had her own journey through IVF. This experience allowed her to understand the importance of the Masculine and the Feminine and how tools and practises such as breathwork, bodywork and mindset can assist individuals and couples on this process.

She uses a holistic model that explores the interconnectedness of Mind/Body and Spirit. She is a meditation teacher with the renowned Chopra Centre in San Diego helping her clients incorporate this tool effortlessly into their life.

Some of the models used in her practice include: Mindfulness, Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy, Skills training, Relaxation strategies, Psychoeducation, Somatic therapy, Bodywork, Emotion focused therapy, Narrative therapy, Gottman Techniques for couples. She is a continual learner of the mind-body connection, wellbeing, yogic practices, neuroscience and spirituality and is committed to working with people from diverse backgrounds.

This Hart therapist works from a person-centred approach, which means that everyone has the resources to resolve the challenges they face. She helps her clients develop skills that will empower them to address conflicts better. She believes emotional growth results in a healthy way of thinking, which leads to healthier relationships. She works with individuals, couples and families from different cultural backgrounds. She has lived experience of stress, anxiety and low self-worth. She also has experience of moving to a new environment and successfully adapting in the community. This gives her a unique insight into the experiences of individuals from diverse cultures.

She will work with you in a caring and compassionate manner to help you explore your inner strength, so you feel stronger and more powerful. If you are facing uncertainties and challenges in your life, she will travel with you to meet you where you are in your life to understand how you see the world. She believes that you have the resources that are unique to you.

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.

She utilises a blend of therapies to assist each individual/couple, such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Person Centred Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy and Mindfulness, among others. She will work with you to create the therapy style best suited to your needs and utilises various tools to engage with you and explore avenues to help you reach your desired outcomes.

She previously coordinated a network of professionals and has a strong network of Allied Health Professionals she can connect clients with. 

She is practical and grounded in her approach, empathetic and down to earth. She will use her professional skills and natural ease to be your best support, to help you set goals, grow and live well.

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.

Over the course of her training and career in counselling and education, this Hart therapist has a wide variety of experience working with children, youth and families, couples, and women from diverse cultural backgrounds. She has a special interest in working with relationship and couple’s issues, domestic and family violence, grief and loss, youth, and family and life’s transitions.

She has trained teachers and supervised counsellors, and lectured Social Work students. She has a passion to empower others to reach their full potential and facilitates groups and workshops for the private, corporate and education sector.

She is a holistic counsellor and draws on different counselling modalities to suit the client’s needs.

Her aim for every client is to create positive change within themselves and see them live a meaningful and full life.

She has completed her externship with the International Institute for Emotion Focused Therapy for Couples as well as Imago Relationship Training. As an Associate of The Hart Centre, she is committed to work, especially with couples who are experiencing a disconnect in their relationship and/or couples who desire to deepen their connection with each other.

She has a deep sense of the importance of spirituality, and how it contributes to a person’s well-being, and how it works in with the counselling process. In her spare time, she is an avid reader, enjoys time with family and friends, is passionate about cooking and enjoys travelling. She enjoys a good laugh and believes that “Laughter is the best medicine”.

This Hart Social Worker understands the challenges and complexities faced by clients in all types of relationships, with or without kids. She is passionate about assisting clients to work through any issues or difficulties with the aim of improving connection and contentment in their relationships.

She has a strong interest in improving connection and contentment in relationships including same sex clients. She has experience in rebuilding relationships after breaches of trust or infidelity. She works with individuals and couples who have struggles with self-esteem issues, or experienced anxiety, depression, or the impacts of alcohol or drugs within their relationships.

She uses various approaches to work with individuals and couples including Narrative therapy, Solution Focussed therapy, Cognitive Behavioural therapy (CBT), Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT) and nature based mindful strategies.

Her approach to therapy is client focussed and tailored to the needs of her clients. Her approach helps couples determine the goals of therapy and navigate the management of everyday issues whilst keeping a focus on these goals. Her approach often requires clients to undertake homework in between sessions to actively practice the skills and strategies developed in therapy.

She helps clients who are dealing with grief, loss, anxiety, self esteem, relationship difficulties, end of relationships, life changes and personal growth. She offers a completely confidential safe place to work through these areas and gain positive insights. She has a warm and empathetic style. She uses client lead counselling techniques and will meet you where you are, and will help you to get to where you want to be.

She is a member of the Psychotherapists and Counsellors Federation of Australia, and the International Coaching Federation. She has a Bachelor of Counselling (Coaching) from the Australian College of Psychology. She loves to help people find the best possible versions of themselves.

This Hart therapist will guide you to the door that is locked within, and help you discover the key to unlock your potential in life. She will support you to unblock your fixed life patterns and beliefs, which often began during early childhood. She will help you to build new ways of being and communicating in the world.

Her mission is to help people turn the key, unlock the door and step through to new beginnings, exciting futures and amazing achievements as a person, couple, or as a family. Her warm, empathic style encourages a safe place where clients can share, reflect, become aware and choose to take charge of their life in more constructive, authentic and life-giving ways.

She is committed to supporting her clients in becoming more self-aware, so they may grasp what blocks them from moving forward in life. She leads her clients towards knowing themselves, owning themselves and transforming themselves. She will work creatively to help her clients discover who they “really are” and find meaning and purpose in their life. She encourages clients to face their challenges and live rewarding and fulfilling lives. She will help her clients meet their needs by drawing on many contemporary models of counselling: including Mindfulness, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Team CBT, Solution Focused Therapy and Psychosynthesis. She will teach you how to relax and connect to your inner self through Relaxation Strategies and Creative Visualisation Techniques.

She has trained extensively in Relationship and Family Therapy.

Too often people abandon a relationship believing it to be unsalvageable, when it can not only be saved, but improved way beyond what they believed possible. All it takes is a willingness to be open, honest, and experience the discomfort that comes with change. Unlike repeating the same old behaviour expecting a different outcome, this discomfort will end.

This Hart therapist provides a non judgemental, connected, safe and solution focused space, which sees the therapist and the clients as partners in the experience.  The client is always responsible for setting the vision and she will do her best to provide the “how to get there” opportunities, so the client can arrive at the “best fit” solution for themselves.

Should you choose to work with this Hart therapist, you will grow your communication and ability to connect with the person that you love. You will learn about your patterns and triggers, and how to choose safer, kinder and more loving responses.

She has been in the field for some time, holding a comprehensive set of tools and experience to assist you in identifying and remove the blocks that you are experiencing.  This includes enhancing emotional intelligence, understanding each others’ perspective, family of origin influences, love language, the assumption trap, managing conflict, and realising personal growth, so you can contribute positively to the relationship.

She is a warm, approachable human being who is committed to helping you heal the wounds you have inadvertently inflicted on each other so you can move forward into a relationship of your choosing.

In 2020, she published her first book, which demonstrates the links between family of origin (FOO), the safety behaviours/core beliefs that are created in response to our FOO and how they play out in our adult relationships with self and others.

This Hart therapist is experienced in working with clients dealing with stress, burn out, work harassment, depression, anxiety, lack of motivation, low self-worth, and relationship and family breakdowns.

She works with adults, couples and teenagers, creating a positive and honest relationship so they can achieve their goals. She motivates her clients and helps them through difficult situations. She is aware that asking for help is not easy, but it is the first step towards positive change.

Each session with this Hart therapist is tailored to meet her clients’ personal therapeutic needs. She incorporates many contemporary models of counselling into her practice, using an integrated, client-centered approach, and is skilled at helping her clients address a variety of issues.

This Hart therapist assists her clients to explore their concerns and see and experience a future with positive change. Counselling sessions can develop into a positive, uplifting, and empowering experience.

Each session with this Hart therapist is developed to meet the clients’ personal therapeutic needs. She incorporates many contemporary models of counselling into her practice, including: Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Narrative Therapy, Mindfulness, Person-centred and Solution-Focused Therapy. She uses an integrated, client-centred approach, and is skilled at helping her clients address a variety of issues. She is ready to listen, so make the choice, to make a change and experience how counselling can help you to create a brighter today and tomorrow.

She is a proud member of The Hart Centre and registered with The Australian Counselling Association.  She ensures ongoing development and enhancements of her skills to deliver fresh and relevant professional support for her clients.

She is approachable and outcome focused. She is creative in helping increase awareness and both understanding and respectful when helping unpack her clients past and present challenges. She will work with her clients to get back on track in a safe and supportive environment and focuses on providing the tools needed to improve their self-esteem and self-confidence, strengthen relationships and reach their individual goals.

She looks to empower her clients and individualises the therapeutic approach for each person. She does this by using evidence-based, cognitive behavioural therapy techniques that go way beyond just listening to the issues or concerns at hand, and truly helps you to progress to the life you want with greater wellbeing and life satisfaction.

She has received cutting-edge training from the preeminent world authorities on relationships, Prof. Susan Johnson, Prof. John Gottman and Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman.

Early in her career, before writing a novel, she was a love and relationships columnist for a national magazine.

Her couples’ consultations facilitate emotional connection and the longevity of love.  While appreciating the uniqueness of each client, in terms of their feelings, concerns, needs, priorities, background and personality, her comprehensive knowledge of the complexity of relationships helps cultivate the intimate environment clients yearn for.

This Hart Psychologist can help couples:

• Identify interaction patterns that lead to distress
• Communicate in ways that emotionally connect them
• Manage conflict and problem-solve in a productive manner
• State needs clearly
• Work through unresolved issues
• Negotiate change
• Repair emotional wounds after betrayal, abuse or emotional neglect

She can help individuals:

• Change self-defeating thoughts and behaviours
• Clarify thoughts and emotions
• Explore the unrewarding aspects of their life and increase their sense of contentment
• Develop insight into what underpins their unfavourable reactions and behaviours
• Expand awareness, acceptance and compassion towards self and others
• Feel some relief if they’re in pain, or adapt to circumstances that are outside their control.

Clients can expect respect, compassion and a down-to-earth approach.  Every consultation is aimed at deepening their emotional connection and developing a more satisfying involvement.  When we improve the quality of our intimate relationship, we improve the quality of our life.

Developing healthier minds creates more productive relationships and positive personal environment.

Couples usually make appointments only when the chill in their relationship has reached zero degrees. What once had been a loving relationship is now characterized by irreconcilable differences in their beliefs about financial decisions, physical intimacy, contact with relatives, and even how to load the dishwasher. They are used to hearing daily comments from each other such as:

“I can’t put up with your sporting obsession, and you’re always ignoring me!”

“I can never do anything right”

“I’m here at home all day with the kids, how would you possibly understand what that is like?”

“You are always blaming me!”

Because they have practiced their side of the argument for so long and they are so good at knowing how to attack each other’s weaknesses, persistent patterns have developed.

Change takes time and relapses will occur!

Couples often arrive believing that the therapist’s job is to “fix” their partner. Many couples are sceptical about whether therapy will work.

Each needs to understand that they are both good people; however, their patterns of communication have created a daily fencing duel. The therapy process will hopefully return you to your prior loving relationship only after you each become aware of how each contributes to this daily duel and begin to make changes. Awareness about the part that you each play in this relationship drama is essential.

Couples often arrive at the session believing that each partner will be laying out his or her “position” and the therapist will act as a referee to decide who is right. It is not a matter of one person being right or wrong, since both partners make sense from their perspective.

This Hart therapist points out to couples that the process will work if they both “are willing to try on some new ideas and own their part in it.”

By pointing out the importance of the “we” and not the “me” in their relationship, they begin to understand that both are expected to participate by making changes. This means that counselling is a joint venture to better understand the relationship rather than an adversarial one.

By using the therapeutic relationship for change and highlighting your strengths she will assist you in meeting your therapeutic needs.

This Hart therapist has trained many of Melbourne’s counselling and hypnotherapists as a senior lecturer at leading colleges and universities in Melbourne.

Having seen many clients over the past 24 years, her clinical experience is both extensive and diverse. Her sexual therapy and relationship counselling has provided many clients find a safe port to begin the process of discovery and recovery.

Many adults present with sexual issues related to healing after the end of a relationship, requiring special understanding and counselling to overcome any obsticals. It is often important to intervene early, repairing any resentments and hurts before they become a larger problem.

At times non-sexual relationships outside of the primary coupleship (sometimes referred to as “emotional affairs”) cause insecurities and jealousy. These situations need special understanding to sort out before permanent damage is caused, or the relationship difficulties become terminal.

Sexual dysfunctions or other sexual issues can arise from many different beginnings, such as a life stage dilemma, past emotional difficulties and thought patterns, as well as physical medical health issues. Discovering and understanding these issues will assist on the road to healing and wholeness.

Hypnotherapy is often helpful in cases requiring behaviour change, such as dealing with porn addiction, premature ejaculation and many other aspects of sexual therapy.

As a trained hypnotherapist, she is able to effectively use hypnotherapy to assist with behaviour change for both sexual and other issues as desired by the client.

She will often adjust her techniques to meet the client’s needs as each individual is unique and demands a different hearing/ approach. She integrates Mindfulness in her sessions, finding the method can be very useful at times.

She is the author of an honours-thesis.

She listens with empathy and then provides couples with practical tools and strategies to help her clients overcome difficulties they are experiences and supports them to work towards a connected and harmonious relationship.

This Hart therapist uses an evidence based and holistic approach to tailor her session to meet each couples individual circumstances.

Her approach is responsive, empathic and relational. She understands how skills developed in the therapy space need to be transferable to a couple’s home life. She provides specific strategies and tools to get things ‘back on track’, improve communication and effectively manage conflict. It’s often the ‘little things’ couples fight about or the ‘same old’ things, which become roadblocks to intimacy and connection. She will initially explore your goals for the relationship and help identify where your strengths and challenges are.

She loves spending spare time with her husband, adult children, toy poodle and going for walks in nature. She also enjoys creating large abstract artworks on canvas, which often informs her counselling work around what requires more focus or attending to.

Working on your relationship takes commitment, practice, time and courage. She will support you to give it your ‘best shot’ and create lasting change.

He is aware of the importance of healthy communication and the role emotions play in relationships. Without effective communication tools and the ability to clearly express emotions, couples and families often face a vast array of difficulties.

He works with couples in the areas of building trust, navigating divorce, couple and family reunification, same-sex relationship difficulties, infidelity, sexual disorders and violence. He also conducts individual sessions in the following areas: abuse, eating disorders, gender identity stress, anxiety, depression, bullying, drug and alcohol addiction, panic attacks, grief, loss and traumas.

This Hart therapist has trained in Italy to become a psychotherapist. After his degree in Clinical Psychology, he completed a post graduate degree in Family Psychotherapy. He has more than 10 years of practice in working with clients experiencing a variety of mental and relational health issues.

He is currently pursuing a PhD in Telehealth/Digital Health at the University of Melbourne. He has been involved in academia for more than 10 years publishing also several works.

He loves to diversify his interests in a variety of mental health issues and relationship conditions in order to support his clients in every stage of their lives. He has gained extensive experience in public and private sectors and helps his clients to recover from different mental and relationship issues by harmonising theoretical and clinical understanding.

He supports couples facing a range of emotional and relationship issues such as communication breakdowns, sexual disorders, loss of trust, parenting styles and extended family issues.

He has been intensively trained to treat individuals, couples and families. He has had the opportunity to attend The Family and Relationship Therapy Centre which is led by some of the European pioneers of the Systemic Family approach. He stays up-to-date with the ongoing European therapy methodologies, bringing science and new models to his practice.

Furthermore, he has also completed a post graduate degree in Clinical Sexology.  This allows him to competently work with individuals and couples through a wide range of sexual issues.

He can also deliver therapy sessions in Italian language.

Before becoming a psychologist, he worked in a number of significant roles in the Public Sector for over 20 years, initially as an economist and later as an Executive for 16 years.

This experience has given him great insight and understanding of what it is like to be a professional or an executive working in complex roles and managing a range of life, relationships, and workplace challenges. He has experienced what it is like to be a professional or executive who feels stuck in a negative pattern or cycle in their life, work or relationships.

This personal experience of being in a ‘life funk’ … worried about not performing to others’ expectations … feeling that he is letting down his wife (also an executive) and children … not truly following his own path and true passion.

This passion is about helping people like him … to improve their life, relationships and work. To find out what makes them tick and figure out what is ‘holding them back’ from achieving their dreams.

This passion led him to pursue his dream of becoming a psychologist, helping professionals and executives individually and in couples therapy.

Building on his successful career as an Executive and training as a coach, he decided to pursue his true passion in becoming a psychologist in private practice. He has established a special practice that delivers cutting edge therapy and counselling to executive and professional clients. Through his extensive experience as a psychologist and coach, he has come to understand what works and what doesn’t work in therapy and what leads to lasting change.

His psychological approach draws inspiration from Carl Jung, Alfred Adler and Karen Horney – famous psychologists in the 20th century – that ‘all problems are interpersonal problems.’ He has witnessed through in his own life and his clients – that our problems are manifested through our relationships with significant people in our personal, education and workplace life. He observes that:

“In my own life and the life of my clients, I now recognise that individuals present or are confronted with problems that at the root level are in connection to their relationships.”

His aim is to help you get to the root cause of the problem and to overcome the hidden roadblocks that have stopped you (as an individual or couple) feeling better and living the life that you want to live. In doing so, you will feel more confident, happy, hopeful and better connected to those around you.

He is often told that he brings a different dynamic to couples therapy, without siding with either partner. He sees his role in couples therapy is to put the truth on the table so that the couple can decide on what they will do with that truth, and not make any judgements.

Although he draws from constant training in different methods of counselling, he enjoys the viewpoints of ACT for couples and the work of Dr John Gottman, but he has also studied Narrative Therapy and CBT. Clients tell him that he uses a common-sense approach to his work with them. He looks to use his training to provide resources and the opportunity for the couple to explore their relationship experiences in a more open way. This has proven to be successful in partners increasing their understanding their own reactions and also being more understanding of the impact on the other.

He doesn’t allow any particular counselling methodology to define the way he works with clients – rather, he joins with the couple where they are at and understands what is important to them and what they are hoping to achieve from the counselling process.

This Hart therapist most enjoys working with couples who are committed to putting in the effort required both personally and relationally, as this is where lasting change occurs.

She takes a collaborative and learning approach to work with couples. Each relationship is unique and a human’s individual needs and goals for their relationship matters. She helps couples chart a way forward to get out of being stuck and stop fighting and to build connection, bonding and achieve their goals. Enough loneliness, distance and disengagement!

She has 3 qualifications- counselling, applied science and an aspect of science devoted to human factors and the manifestation of mental health issues to bodily symptoms.

In addition, she is trained in multiple therapeutic modalities… because her work as a couple’s therapist is one of her passions. She also supervises and trains therapists in the Developmental Model of couple’s therapy.

She is a discernment counsellor and she loves helping couples make that very important decision – to stay or go. She is a specialist in this field as she has facilitated teams making complex decisions.

For couples who are uncertain about whether to divorce or not, she can facilitate the decision-making process, on this important matter. Building trust and good communication are paramount to successful relationships. She helps to build greater connection and care between couples who choose to stay together or to separate amicably, if staying together is not the goal.

She works with both individuals and couples in her Adelaide practice, who present with a wide range of issues including: anxiety, stress, depression, anger issues, communication difficulties, relationship and sexual problems, infidelity, parenting problems and much more.

She has a special interest in working with couples, in new or long-standing relationships. She gently brings awareness to any destructive patterns and habits that may have formed over a long period of time, or may have been brought from previous relationships and childhood experiences. Her skill is in seeing the things that may be difficult to see from the inside and helping people, without judgement or pressure, to find a way forward that honours the needs of both partners.

She works with clients in a creative and open way that ensures it is a joint process that seeks to empower and bring confidence to everyone involved. She is naturally skilled in hearing her client’s unique perspective and understanding and bringing to light the ways people are thinking, feeling and behaving and how this is affecting their interactions and personal sense of wellbeing. She is experienced in teaching and supporting people to communicate in healthy, honest and respectful ways that greatly improve their relationships.

When we enter long term relationships, we do so with hope and optimism  – with little thought of challenges that might arise. When confronted with these, many of us are able surmount them and our relationships bond into robust partnerships. Unfortunately when we encounter problems  (whether because of unforeseen differences in beliefs or expectations, differences in child raising or in the face of pressures such as financial) these can stress or threaten our relationships – leading to a cycle of emotional distancing,  communication difficulties, conflict,  emotional estrangement, abuse or at worst violence.

In those instances where couples decide to separate, this Hart therapist respects this, and offers separation counselling to enable a parting with as much respect and as little hurt to each party and their children.

His experience includes:

• Co-founder of Master of Counselling at ANU
• Founder of First Professional Marriage Guidance Training Programme in the ACT
• Supervisor of relationship counsellors in the ACT
• Consultant to SA Marriage Guidance Council (now Relationships Australia)
• Family Therapy and Relationship Training at McMasterUniversity
• Founder of Master of Clinical Psychology at Adelaide University
• Member of founding committees of SA Family Therapy Association and ASSERT (now Sexology Australia)

She has worked in Australia and overseas, and therefore has a deep understanding of the main challenges facing couples from different cultures.

She is committed to working with individuals who present with a range of issues, including anxiety, stress, trauma, and cultural adjustment issues.

This Hart psychologist has a caring, warm and genuine nature, that assists her in working with both individuals, and couples struggling in a relationship. Her relaxed style provides a comfortable and safe environment within which clients can explore their deeper issues and challenges.

She is passionate about helping couples feel more emotionally connected, more aware and in tune with each other’s needs, improving communication skills, managing and reducing conflict, dealing with betrayal and loss of trust, negotiating parenthood, and providing a deeper understanding of their situation and patterns so they are better equipped to deal with issues that may arise in the future.

She uses a holistic and integrated approach and utilises a range of therapeutic techniques, tailoring therapy to suit each client’s needs. She views the therapeutic process as a journey where every participant works together to achieve the desired goals.

With respect for the relationship and care for his clients, he is able to support couples have conversations they may never have had. He then works together with his clients to find solutions which support the safety and well-being of everyone.

He draws from a variety of counselling theories and approaches which are chosen according to what his clients are looking for. His particular areas of interest are: intimacy, communication, affairs, grief and loss, parenting, and other family challenges.

This Hart therapist is keen to remain at the forefront of credibility and integrity in her chosen industry. As a certified professional, she demonstrates her commitment to her clients. They always have the assurance that she not only knows what she is talking about, but she is dedicated to delivering solutions. She works with many successful clients to achieve happiness.

She is a down to earth woman who knows success in life and is often supported by those who love her most. She also recognizes the importance of self-growth in herself and others. Being a mother of three (3), a wife, a daughter and a grand mother of two (2) she knows the importance of strong and reliable relationships. These are the foundations that allow one the freedom to move forward with confidence.

Throughout her many and varied experiences, her acute awareness of what works and what doesn’t has allowed her to help others in developing their own successful strategies and procedures. From her experience of different types of counsellors and coaches, she noticed a more flexible, attuned and direct approach was needed to fully service the needs of individuals.

Her holistic approach moves clients forward quickly and successfully. By acknowledging and addressing the root of problems, she provides clients with the tools to create permanent, positive change in their lives while encouraging a greater sense of self-awareness. Open minded, compassionate and respectful, she is committed to helping people improve their wellbeing by resolving conflict and developing effective communication and problem-solving skills. The ultimate aim is for clients to experience a more fulfilling life, better relationships and a deeper understanding of themselves.

Shecombines both eastern and western therapies and her highly effective approach is based on addressing all aspects of wellbeing including mental, emotional, physical and spiritual health.

She is a Professional Counsellor, Life Coach, Master NLP Practitioner, Time Line Therapist and Hypnotherapist.

She provides truly empathetic support as she journeys with her clients through a variety of challenges they face, providing them with real and practical tools to manage conflict, deepen their connection and strengthen friendship and intimacy.  Key to the success of her work is relating to both partners with equity and empathy, helping them to repair, rebuild and connect.

Whether you are looking to deepen your relationship, recover from an affair, manage ongoing conflicts, work through financial issues, work through addictions, deal with family issues, external stresses on the relationship, or many other issues facing couples; Gottman therapy is designed to teach you the tools to manage these and deepen the bond and happiness in your relationship.

Sessions focus on the couples immediate needs as well as the goals they have set out in their plan which we develop together. We learn about key tools and practice using these.

Clients find she has a warm, empathic and non-judgemental approach which allows them to safely explore their issues. She also has a fine understanding of the importance of relationships in people’s lives, for their sense of well-being, happiness and health. She knows how painful and stressful it can be when these relationships founder, and she recognises the courage involved in taking the step to seek help. She worked full-time at Relationships Australia for six years at the beginning of her career, and has also been trained in individual therapy. She is also experienced in working with female same-sex couples, and with people suffering from childhood traumas.

She also has several years experience conducting online Skype consultations.

He provides practical ways to help partners move forward, to create emotional connection, that strengthens relationships. He is non-judgemental in his approach and offers an unbiased service.

Several new areas of counselling he is offering now include;

1. Intimacy & Desire Counselling

Desire problems can include:

• lack of desire by one or both partners
• mismatched libidos
• Maintaining a good sex life when tired from children
• Power struggles and who chases who – the masculine/feminine
• Getting your sex life back on track after life gets in the way
• Lack of communication about sex and sexual problems
• Sexual knots or combinations of misinterpretations and shutdowns
• Recovering from affairs
• Sex over 50 – including menopause, slower erections, lack of desire and resentment

2. Sex Therapy

• Erectile difficulties
• Premature ejaculation
• Delayed ejaculation
• Orgasmic disorders
• Painful intercourse /vaginismus
• Fetishes, Exhibitionistic disorder
• Hypersexual disorder
• Paedophilia

3. Sexual trauma

4. Porn addiction

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.

In couples counselling, she works collaboratively with her clients to help them express what they need in their intimate relationships to feel safe, secure, and uniquely valued.

She has a strong interest in relationship issues resulting from affairs and betrayals, depression, chronic illness, intergenerational trauma, grief and loss, and problems with sexual and emotional intimacy. She is also committed to working with clients who are experiencing conflict arising from major life transitions (e.g., births, deaths, marriages, children leaving home, starting school, relocation, job changes and retraining), and in the prevention of intimate partner violence.

She uses a range of therapeutic approaches to suit her clients’ needs.

She is passionate about supporting her clients to create new meaning and opportunities in life.

She is exceptionally qualified in couples counselling, and in helping couples sort through the issues and dysfunctional patterns that prevent them enjoying their relationships. She believes that the nearly all troubled relationships can be assisted to regain the openness, joy and flow that are the hallmarks of health.

Her doctoral thesis was on migration and the psychological identities that this experience creates. She tutored in psychology at a University and counselled at a university’s Psychology Clinic. She was also a crisis counsellor at a suicide line. In her early career she worked in community settings, counselling families and individuals dealing with child protection and parenting, suicide risk, mental health and relationships issues. Later she supported those living with dementia, their families and carers, through counselling and educational activities targeting the general public and volunteers.

She has worked in private practice for over 10 years, specialising in couples counselling and family counselling for over 7 years. She has helped couples with relationship difficulties better manage the personal issues with children and family during marriage, separation, and divorce.

She is fluent in Spanish.

Areas of expertise
She has experience and training in assisting clients with a broad spectrum of presenting concerns, including:

– Relationships – communication, infidelity, and relationship dissatisfaction
– Family breakdown, including divorce and related difficulties
– Parenting and family issues
– Support for families and carers affected by mental illness or physical illness
– Peri- and post-natal depression
– Depression
– Grief and loss
– Anxiety, including social anxiety
– Generalised anxiety and perfectionism
– Obsessions and compulsions
– Post-traumatic stress
– Self-esteem
– Stress and burnout
– Difficulties of adjustment to life transitions
– Career challenges – return from parental leave, career change, redundancy
– Work/life balance
– Working with cultural diversity, cultural values and beliefs

Depending on her client’s needs and preferences, she uses a variety of evidence-based approaches.

He provides effective therapeutic support to adults, couples and families. He also teaches and supervises counselling students.

Each session with this Hart therapist is focused on his client’s needs by starting where the client is at. He incorporates a range of therapeutic approaches to address a variety of concerns, in a way which is meaningful for each of his clients.

He is a clinical member of the Psychotherapy and Counselling Association of Australia, Australian Society of Sex Educators and Research Therapists NSW, and the Australian and New Zealand Mental Health Association. Prior to working in private practice, he has a substantial background working in management and consultancy in the public and private sectors.

Click here to read our interview about the counselling he offers.

Memberships:

• Clinical member Psychotherapy and Counselling Association of Australia (PACFA),
• Australian Society of Sex Educators and Research Therapists NSW ASSET (NSW),
• Australian and New Zealand Mental Health Association ANZMHA)

Her passion is to teach couples how to “fireproof “ their relationship through learning the skills of communication and conflict resolution, and providing them with a template for resolving past and future challenges with a new found confidence.

She often sees couple relationships troubled by poor communication skills; an inability to resolve conflict; difficulty in making joint decisions; trust and infidelity issues; different approaches to parenting styles, money, sex and extended families as well as problems associated with separation and divorce.

She works with both individuals and couples to discover new ways of experiencing themselves and their relationships that are rewarding and fulfilling.

She works with Face to Face counselling as well as Skype, Email and Phone Counselling.

She has run Couples Workshops, Pre-Marital Education for Engaged Couples and Weight Awareness programs. She has attended a wide variety of Conferences and Workshops over the years both in Australia and Internationally.

She is married with children.

She is a certified Sex Educator and Sex Therapist with ASSERT (Australian Society of Sex Educators, Researchers and Therapists 2009)  and is a clinical member of AAFT (Australian Association of Family Therapists).  She applies Bowlby’s Attachment Theory & Family Systems Theory to assist clients in their efforts to improve their wellbeing and relationship effectiveness.

Clients are encouraged to learn about, and develop the capacity to shift perspectives, and to appreciate the importance of our relationships – how it impacts our development, sense of self, ability to deal with others, and mental health.  That understanding their partner’s brain and attachment style can help them defuse conflict and build a secure relationship.  Also trained in the Gottman Method of Couples Therapy, she utilises the Gottman Relationship Checkup  and report to identify the relationships strengths and challenges, concerns and recommendations.

Sessions are available in person, or via telephone or Skype by arrangement.

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.

To read our interview with this Hart psychologist about the relationship and marriage counselling services she offers, click here.

Professional Affiliations

• Psychology Board of Australia
• Australian Association of Psychologists Inc – Full Member
• The Association For Prenatal And Perinatal Psychology And Health (USA)
• Member of Canadian Professional Counsellors Association
• Alumni, Bond University (Australia)

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Working with individuals who may need to create a better work-life balance, need tools to help mange anger, struggle to maintain relationships, recovering from a broken relationship, moving on from loss, separation, divorce and stress management and sleep improvement are all areas where she can assist. Additionally, she has experience working with couples offering improved communication skills, support in the recovery from infidelity, reigniting desire and mismatched libido and many other relationship concerns.

Our Sexual Health Therapist is a member of ASSERT (Australian Society of Sex Educators Researchers and Therapists) and ISSHM (International Society of Sexual Heath).  Sex Therapists are qualified counsellors and healthcare professionals who have had extensive training in human sexuality. Along with a Psychology Degree, she has her Masters in Medicine Science and Sexual Health from the University Of Sydney. She continually increases her clinical knowledge with further research and training. She has extensive clinical experience with Erectile Dysfunction, performance anxiety, delayed and premature ejaculation, porn and sex addiction, sexual fetishes and painful sex (Vaginismus), low desire, low libido and sexual trauma.

Sexual issues can often cause distress and conflict in relationships and sex therapists can assist with these difficulties. As a qualified Sex Therapist, she uses specialised clinical skills and theoretical knowledge to help people deal with sexual difficulties or concerns.

Clients can expect her mature, professional and clinical experience to aid them in achieving the goals desired. A focus on result driven therapy has provided many others with success, and her ability to create a comfortable environment to discuss intimate and personal issues is of great value and importance.

She believes that our close relationships form a very important part of our well-being. She is passionate about assisting her clients to grow and nurture their relationships and has many years of experience in teaching communication, conflict resolution and social skills required to achieve this.

She is very passionate about working with couples and individuals on their relationships and helping them create health relationships. She has had some training using Gottman’s work and from the Hart Centre on relationships. She tailors the sessions to suit the needs of her clients and works towards helping couples achieve their goals. She has helped many couples make positive changes in their relationships through learning to communicate, understand and listen to each other better, deal with conflict better, learn to let go and forgive each other and learn to support each other and work as a team. She aims to engage with both couples to help them both work together to achieve their goals.

This Hart therapist has specialised training in sex therapy both in Australia and the USA. She also understands personally and theoretically the impact that trauma can have on both the individual and the couple dynamics in any relationship. She is currently undergoing further advanced trauma studies in Eye Movement Desensitisation & Reprocessing (EMDR).

She creates a safe, non-judgemental environment that enables her clients to share openly their thoughts and concerns. This then enables her to utilise a number of different techniques and modalities which allow her clients to move to a more positive, open and even joyful space, taking with them the tools they have learned, allowing progression of their own journey. In this way, she has helped hundreds of individuals and couples.

She works with individuals and couples struggling with issues pertaining to gender, sexuality, self-acceptance, grief and loss, adoption, depression and anxiety, eating disorders, and interpersonal relationships. Together she explores with her clients their values, identifies their commitments and the aspects of their life that are important to them, and then works to sensitively peel back the numerous life stressors that might keep her client from not living the life that is desired.

She offers an integrated holistic approach, working with the emotional, the physical, the mental and the existential/spiritual. She believes that a treatment plan should be individually tailored to each client or couple. She likes to partner with clients, involving them regarding the focus of the work, the duration, the review of work and what success will look like. In this way, her clients are active participants in the therapeutic process, and therefore in their own healing.

For couples, he focuses on the underlying needs that are typically unmet when relationships become distressed.  These needs may include a desire to be truly heard and responded to by the individual’s partner, the need for connection, safety and intimacy and sometimes the need for greater autonomy in the relationship.  These personal needs are explored in great depth as when they are unmet relationships become battlefields of characterised by arguments, verbal attacks and withdrawal which leaves both individuals feeling hurt and hopeless about the future.  He typically sees positive results from therapy after a few initial sessions, and primarily follows an Emotionally Focussed Therapy (EFT) approach in his work with couples.  He also uses Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Interpersonal Therapy (IPT) approaches.

He also sees clients for anger management, narcissism, pre-marriage counselling, phone and skype counselling.

Over the years, she has worked with couples that have experienced communication difficulties, infidelity, imbalances in power, issues with extended family, life transitional difficulties and conflicting ideas on matters such as child rearing, lifestyle differences and finances.

She has a particularly strong interest in both individual and relationship counselling. She is passionate about assisting couples become more adaptive, by helping each person understand the other’s needs, improving communication styles, practicing conflict resolution and assertiveness skills, and promoting strengths within the relationship.

She embraces a holistic approach to mental wellness. She is available for consultation after hours and welcomes face-to-face counselling as well as telephone and Skype counselling.

Having trained in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy at Curtin University of Western Australia, and studied Family Therapy and Family Research at University of Colorado, Boulder, USA, the approach she uses is evidence based. She identifies emotion as the most important factor in adult attachment and the way couples bond. With an emphasis on the way in which partners connect emotionally and when in distressing patterns, she helps partners reconnect to build stronger bonds.  She also draws from other therapies such as psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioural, in addressing and working through individual factors that also impact on our relationship with ourselves and partner.

She can assist with communication difficulties and the management of conflict, intimacy issues both physical and emotional, reconnecting after an affair, and issues to do with power and control.  She is also aware of the many and varied challenges faced by couples across the life span and can assist couples through difficult developmental transitions such as having children, coping with ageing, illness, and the blended family.

Within a confidential, safe and supportive environment, she can help you to work through your relationship issues and help you to achieve a deeper connection with your significant other.

She is a certified Emotion Focused Therapist (EFT) and has obtained her certification with the ICEFT. In particular, she is interested in understanding how best to assist couples when there has been a significant traumatic or hurtful event/s. She commenced working with couples in 1993 while on a placement with Relationships Australia.  Since this time, she has continued to undertake specialist training in working with couples.

She has been in the field of counselling since 1986, and has an employment history of providing counselling for non-government, government and private agencies. Areas she has training include: Emotionally Focused Therapy – Couples & Individuals, Relationship Counselling, Schema Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Grief & Bereavement Therapy, Hypnosis, Recovery from Abuse, Body Image issues, Workplace Stress management, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Adjustment Disorder, and Anxiety & Depression.

She has studied in several areas of the social sciences, and holds the following degrees: Honours B. Soc. Sc. (Pysch.); Graduate Degree in Psychology; Bachelor of Social Work; Bachelor of Education; Graduate Diploma in Counselling and a Master of Counselling.

Please note: She currently offers Sex Therapy from her Brisbane CBD clinic only.

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With her openness to the developmental transitions within families, she brings rich insight and collaboration to the emergence of new meanings for couples and assists them in the creation of a rich, full and meaningful lived experience. Her philosophical stance reflects an exposure to a wide range of approaches, and this is used to create a non-judgemental, open and accepting space within the counselling environment.

She understands that many couples who come into counselling are discouraged about the direction their relationships have taken, feeling hopeless about making changes. They can be accusatory and blaming towards their partner for the state of their relationship, resulting in increased defensiveness on the part of each partner.

This Hart Psychologist’s commitment to the couple relationship, is paramount in assisting the couple to see their dilemma as an opportunity to develop new alternatives in their relationship, which allow them to stop struggling, reconcile their differences and enhance their relationship.

She is available face-to-face and for phone and Skype appointments.

He has a broad range of experience having worked with many groups including individual therapy with children, adolescents and adults as well as provision of couples and family therapy. He has particular interest in couples and relationship counselling, having seen ample evidence in his practice, that the pursuit of a healthy functioning relationship is a vital to wellbeing. He has a lot of experience working with autism.

He provides a supportive, safe and caring environment. He has an eclectic approach to therapy, with skills in a number of therapeutic techniques.

In relationship counselling, he provides an accommodating client focused approach to working through the personal, interpersonal and emotional issues bought into the room by the couples he works with.

Read our Interview with him here.

He is also available for Anger Management, Porn Addiction and Narcissism therapy, and is available for phone or skype sessions for clients who are unable to attend the clinic.

Over the past 24 years, he has earned himself a reputation for working collaboratively with clients in a friendly, warm, and practical manner. His caring, compassionate, and positive nature, coupled with his overall light-hearted approach make him easy to talk to about any issue. Over the years, he has gained significant experience in assisting individuals and couples living with low self-esteem; anger; anxiety; depression; unproductive communication; infidelity; internet pornography; relationship issues; conflict; same-sex attraction/relationships; and violence.

He is an AHPRA-registered Psychologist and a full Member of the Australian Association of Psychologists Inc.; Psychology Board of Australia; Australian Association for Cognitive Behaviour Therapy; and North-West Peer Support Group in Melbourne.

He uses many therapeutic modalities in his eclectic approach.

His motto ‘working towards better mental health’ is underpinned by his belief that one of his key roles is to meet his clients where they are. This allows him to gain an understanding of their situation. He then facilitates their thinking so they can better understand their situation and options, and make their informed decisions about their relationships.

Some of the goals that he sets collaboratively with his clients are psychoeducation, interpersonal skills training, honesty and accountability, reciprocally safe and respectful communication, negotiation, conflict resolution, equality, practicing mutually consistent standards, collaboration, shared responsibility and decision-making, interpersonal trust and support, non-threatening behaviour, intimacy, personal integrity, and mutual transparency, presence, and respect.

Some of the outcomes that clients have reported to him are feeling better about themselves, their partner and their relationship; improved communication; effective conflict resolution; healing from historical emotional hurts; wanting to be in their relationship again; having their ‘spark’ re-ignited; and looking forward to a better future. Based on these reports, in 2020, Julie Hart presented him with the first-ever Hart Centre Award for being “The Associate who consistently received the most positive client feedback, Australia-wide”; a humbling honour that he graciously received on behalf of his clients.

Underpinned by respect, his counselling focus is on providing psychoeducation and skills training, so couples can feel empowered to address and resolve life’s inevitable challenges outside his consulting room. Hence the efficient transition of many of his clients from reparative to preventive counselling.

He feels that people ‘inviting him to be a guest’ in their lives in their time of need, is a privilege for which he is grateful.

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.

She has a keen interest in working with couples and families and believes that good relationships can be central to one’s psychological and physical wellbeing.

She is particularly passionate and committed to assisting couples develop skills and resilience to tackle life problems and work towards addressing the needs of each individual as well as the needs of the couple. She has a special interest in sexual intimacy, trust, conflict and communication issues. She works with couples towards achieving realistic and wise decisions about their relationship.

Her warm, caring approach and respectful non-judgmental manner validates her deep belief in engaging with her clients and developing a trusting, safe and collaborative environment.

She uses evidence – based psychology to improve the wellbeing of young people and adults.  Her approach incorporates cognitive-behavioural therapy, solution focused therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy as well as elements of mindfulness and positive psychology.

Read this therapist’s interview about her work here.

She is available for appointments for Sydney Marriage Counselling, Relationship Counselling, Family Counselling, Sexual Difficulties, Porn Addiction, Narcissism, Pre-Marriage Counselling, Phone Appointments and Skype Appointments.

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.

Understanding that people may seek relationship counselling for a range of reasons, his first task is to help each individual clarify his or her goals. He attends to the health and wellbeing of each individual in the relationship and does not assume that one or both people want to stay together. If both parties do, he helps them explore the strengths and weaknesses of the relevant aspects of the relationship. These may include communication and conflict management, fairness and power, trust and commitment, managing personality differences or individual mental health concerns, aspects of intimacy, and managing external stressors on the relationship such as finances, parenting, extended family, work, health, fertility issues and addictions. Within the counselling sessions, he fosters mature, respectful and constructive conversations to help the couple communicate and problem-solve more effectively in the ‘real world’.

Click here to read our interview with him about the marriage counselling and relationship counselling services he offers.

She believes in providing a safe and respectful environment for both opposite and same sex couples, at any stage of their relationship. In order for helpful outcomes to be achieved for each individual, she assists couples to build on their strengths and improve their skills in listening, communication and connection. She is friendly, professional and takes care to ensure counselling services are tailored to the needs of her clients.

Sessions are available face to face, over the telephone or Zoom depending on your preferences.

She focuses on assisting couples to identify barriers to healthy, mutually nurturing relationships and to develop alternative patterns of interaction. Her experience in adult mental health equips her to help partners in narcissistic relationships regain their confidence and self-respect. She is especially sensitive to the unique issues faced by same-sex and cross-cultural couples.

As a family therapist and family mediator, she is familiar with the issues involved in separation and divorce, re-partnering and blended families. She offers family counselling on these issues, among others. She is also sensitive to male depression, which is often misjudged as irritability and anger, especially in the context of marital breakdown.

She believes that the fast pace of modern life makes it too easy for couples to forget the important principles of a healthy relationship: CODE; Compassion, Openness, Depth, Equality. Her gentle, caring and compassionate approach will help you make the desired positive changes you choose for your life and your relationship. Other areas of interest and areas of expertise include depression, anxiety, post traumatic stress disorder, recovery from sexual abuse, workcover and education.

She offers counselling via Skype or phone, in circumstances where face to face counselling is too difficult to arrange.

She has a doctorate in education and in addition to her private practice, is also a researcher at the university. She has also co-authored the book ‘A Girl’s Education’.

Read our interview with her about the marriage and relationship counselling she offers here.

When she is not at work, she enjoys a busy lifestyle with her partner and their children.

She has a particular interest in assisting couples to explore those matters that are often sensitive or difficult to discuss including sexual problems.  Her approach to such matters ensures that you can feel comfortable exploring matters of sensitivity without the usual level of distress that typically goes with discussing such issues.

She is passionate about helping people to rebuild strong relationships by helping couples and families to explore and investigate what makes each other feel happy and loved.  She will work with you to help each partner in the relationship recognise how to successfully, and happily, meet each other’s needs so that you can re-kindle that ‘in-love’ feeling once again and heal your relationship.

Whether your relationship is with your spouse, your friend, your partner or your children, she will use her supportive, warm and caring approach to helping each of you understand how to love one another once again so that each partner in the relationship can feel valued, respected, understood and loved.

In addition to her specialising in relationship counselling and seeing clients for sexual difficulties, she also sees clients for pre-marriage counselling, anger management, narcissism and porn addiction.

Her focus is on allowing the individual and couple to express their needs in a safe and nurturing environment.  Her method of counselling includes Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Mindfulness and Motivational Interviewing, often integrating the three to achieve the best outcome based on individual needs.

When working with couples, she likes to consider the whole family environment, and will occasionally see the couple individually to work on issues that are presenting within the relationship. This allows for total openness and a space to learn more about your own behaviours without feeling judged or criticised. The aim of relationship counselling is to open communication so as to nurture the relationship and get reacquainted with each other, to find out what our partner needs, and sometimes to also discover exactly what it is that you need.

Read our interview with this Hart Psychologist here. 

In addition to marriage/relationship counselling Sydney, she is also available for appointments for family counselling,  pre-marriage counselling, sexual difficulties, porn addiction, anger management, narcissism, and phone appointments.