About Me

I'm a relationship and family counsellor with close to 20 years' experience supporting individuals, couples and families through some of life's hardest transitions.

My career has taken me through family services (including parenting education, relationship and family counselling, post seperation counselling and co parenting ), through to mental health including specialised perinatal mental health, family violence and alcohol and other drugs, co-facilitating behaviour change groups, and corporate national taining in family violence. I am passionate about healthy and respectful relationships, and am highly skilled at assisting couples navigate their unique challenges to bring them increased intimacy and connection.

I hold a Bachelor of Social Work and a Postgraduate Certificate in Men's Behaviour Change, and I bring a trauma-informed, strengths-based approach to my work. I draw on:

• Relational Life Therapy

• The Gottman Method

• Attachment theory

• Family systems theory

• Emotionally focused techniques

• Mindfulness

I understand the specific pressure FIFO rosters place on relationships: the disconnect of extended time apart, the awkwardness of re-entry when a partner comes home, and the loneliness of parenting solo through the swing. I work with couples navigating this rhythm, as well as those who've made the decision to separate and want to co-parent with respect and the best interests of the children.