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As a qualified counsellor and psychotherapist with over 14 years of clinical experience, I work within a leading edge relational, embodied and psychospiritual context, primarily focused on the unconscious informed by transference and countertransference dynamics. My approach is relational and depth oriented and I bring this quality into my energy work.

I work on the Gold Coast in private practice. If you are contacting me primarily for cranial and vortex work, the sessions are gentle, soothing and non invasive. The light touch and cranial work assist to facilitate relaxation and a deep letting go of emotional resistance held within the neurological system, with a gentle focus on breathing. The energy of vortex healing assists in the alignment of the individual with the True Self that is its base. It can provide a profound experience of safety and care that can support whole system reparation to areas of the psyche where there has been previous empathic failure or trauma.

Energy work can assist in creating more internal space. This can facilitate deep integration, allowing the body to find its own ways of releasing tensions, softening tissue, restoring the vital flow of fluids and energy. This work is born out of my interest in cranial sacral therapy, my knowledge and study of energy psychotherapy and my knowledge and experience of body psychotherapy, that pays attention to the body’s expression of emotional trauma, where emotional pain may be expressed as a physical symptom. I personally underwent body psychotherapy for 7 years prior to my training as a counsellor and psychotherapist.

Grounding

This work is also grounded in my training and qualification in vortex healing, a healing art with the aim of releasing blockages in the human energy system thus restoring well being, and my training and qualification in massage therapy, manual manipulation of soft body tissue to enhance a person’s health and well being. 

“Since touch has been proven to be essential to the growing infant, it must be important throughout our life. Touch speaks a simple language we all understand. The profession of psychotherapy cannot afford to be untouched any longer.”

Bernd Eiden, Founder of the Chiron Centre for Body Psychotherapy

Vortex Healing

VortexHealing® is an energetic healing art that works solely with divine light and consciousness.

Unfortunately most information on vortex and even cranial sacral can come across as a little ‘out there’ and even borderline mythical. In essence the web of conditioning (energetic, psychological, emotional and physiological) is incredibly deep and can completely distort our experience of being human. In addition to creating a myriad of emotional issues, it also creates blockages in our human energy system which generate weakness and physical disease. The intent of vortex healing is to release this conditioning on every level it is found, returning the person to emotional balance and energetic strength, so that health prevails. From a psychosynthesis perspective one might say the work is to assist in facilitating alignment between the personal ‘I’ and transpersonal Self.

The Swedish Effleurage approach I work with is similar to the below description of Hawaiian Flow:

Hawaiian Movement

Hawaiian movement is known as the ‘loving hands’. This name helps to explain its principles – the movement works gently into the muscles with continuous, flowing strokes, allowing the recipient to relax and give in to the nurturing touch, working from the belief that memories are not only stored in the brain and mind, but also in every cell of the human body. The long, continuous strokes of the movement are designed to help the body let go of its old patterns and behaviours, which can cause as many stresses and strains as muscle tension.