My training and background has equipped me to work with a wide range of people at various life stages and from all sorts of backgrounds. I have experience in counselling and a variety of Psychotherapy and Counselling modalities which I use according to the difficulties people come to me for and the type of person.
My specific interests come out of many years of working with with women and their families during their childbearing years as a midwife and a Clinical Psychotherapist in the Blue Mountains, Australia.
I specialise in working with women who have experienced trauma which may impinge on their experience of conception, pregnancy, birth, and mothering as well as individuals who have experienced challenges and trauma in their early years of life.
Qualifications:
Clinical Psychotherapist (ICP 2000)
Dream Analyst (ANZAIDA 2002)
Buddhist Psychotherapist (2005)
Registered Midwife (since 1989)
Child and Family Health Nurse (UWS)
Childbirth Educator
Practice Experience:
20 years experience working in Private Practice as a Psychotherapist.
30 years experience working as a Registered Midwife.
Current Positions held:
Clinical Psychotherapist in Private Practice Team Member at the Blue Mountains Counselling Centre
Rooms located at the Psychology and Psychotherapy Hub, Level 1 98-108 Bathurst Road, Katoomba, NSW, 2780 (Upper Mountains Medical Centre Building)
Professional Associations:
Senior Clinical Member - Institute of Clinical Psychotherapy
IARPP - International Association of Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
Australian College of Midwives
My specific interests come out of many years of working with with women and their families during their childbearing years as a midwife and a Clinical Psychotherapist in the Blue Mountains, Australia.
I specialise in working with women who have experienced trauma which may impinge on their experience of conception, pregnancy, birth, and mothering as well as individuals who have experienced challenges and trauma in their early years of life.
Qualifications:
Clinical Psychotherapist (ICP 2000)
Dream Analyst (ANZAIDA 2002)
Buddhist Psychotherapist (2005)
Registered Midwife (since 1989)
Child and Family Health Nurse (UWS)
Childbirth Educator
Practice Experience:
20 years experience working in Private Practice as a Psychotherapist.
30 years experience working as a Registered Midwife.
Current Positions held:
Clinical Psychotherapist in Private Practice Team Member at the Blue Mountains Counselling Centre
Rooms located at the Psychology and Psychotherapy Hub, Level 1 98-108 Bathurst Road, Katoomba, NSW, 2780 (Upper Mountains Medical Centre Building)
Professional Associations:
Senior Clinical Member - Institute of Clinical Psychotherapy
IARPP - International Association of Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
Australian College of Midwives