The Therapy Room
Counselling and psychotherapy for when something needs to change.
You may not be in crisis, but something feels off.
You feel stuck, restless, or disillusioned beneath the weight of expectations, cultural, personal, or professional.
You feel anxious, alone, or quietly lost.
Psychotherapy offers a safe space to pause, reflect, and explore what’s really going on, beneath the surface of “I’m fine”.
But this isn’t just talking.
In our work together, we craft a path toward clarity, healing, and meaningful change.
Who This Is For
You may be:
- Feeling emotionally numb, anxious, burnt out, or dissatisfied – even if things look fine from the outside
- Moving through a major life or career transition
- Facing a relationship rupture, shift, or ending
- Grappling with cultural tension, identity questions, or a quiet sense of “otherness”
- Tired of holding it all together, and wondering if there’s more to life than coping
If you’re ready to move from “what’s wrong” to “what can be”, you’re in the right place.
Why Therapy, Why Now?
You don’t have to be in crisis to begin therapy.
Sometimes, it starts with a quiet knowing: something isn’t working anymore.
Maybe it’s the way you constantly hold it together for everyone else. Maybe it’s the internal pressure to stay productive, stay agreeable, stay strong. Or maybe it’s just a growing ache, a longing to feel more like yourself again, even if you’re not sure who that is.
Whether you’re carrying invisible weight or simply sensing it’s time for something to shift, now is the time to begin.
The Therapy Room is a calm, respectful space to explore what matters and begin again with intention.
Therapy with me isn’t about fixing you.
It’s about helping you reconnect with yourself and gently rewrite what’s been holding you back.
Together, we’ll explore:
The stories you’ve internalised about identity, success, and self-worth
The values and inner strengths already within you
How to navigate change with clarity and courage
How to cultivate emotional resilience and insight
What it means to live, not perfectly, but honestly and intentionally, more true to you
What to Expect
This isn’t one-size-fits-all. It’s collaborative, considered, and grounded in what matters most to you.
I won’t tell you what to do. I walk beside you as we explore the questions, patterns, and stories shaping your life.
Together, we look at what’s working, what’s not, and what’s ready to shift.
My integrative approach draws primarily from:
- Narrative Therapy: to explore and gently re-author the stories that no longer serve you
- Existential Therapy: to make sense of identity, meaning, change, and responsibility
- ACT (Acceptance & Commitment Therapy): to help clarify your values and take action from a grounded, intentional place
As a certified trauma practitioner, my practice is trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and inclusive. We go at your pace. We work with your context. We honour your lived experience.
The Details
50 minutes
Online (telehealth) or in-person in Springwood, Blue Mountains, NSW
$150 per session
- Availability: Flexible, after-hours appointments available
- Medicare Rebate: Not available. I operate as a self-funded private provider to ensure full confidentiality and flexibility
- Private Health: Rebates is available through selected health funds
Testimonials
Frequently Asked Questions
Beginning therapy can bring up questions — particularly if you haven’t been to therapy before. Here are some of the things people often want to know about psychotherapy and what happens in the therapy room.
What is psychotherapy?
Psychotherapy is a space to understand yourself more deeply – how you have come to be who you are, what shapes the way you think, feel and respond, and what may be getting in the way of living the life you want.
People sometimes imagine therapy as something we seek only when something is “wrong”. It can certainly help during periods of distress, loss, anxiety, relationship difficulties or significant change. But therapy can also be a place for curiosity: to explore recurring patterns, questions about identity and belonging, relationships, purpose, or a sense that something in your life no longer quite fits.
Psychotherapy often looks beneath the immediate problem. Rather than only asking, “How do I make this feeling go away?”, we might also become curious about “What is this feeling telling me?”, “Where might this pattern have come from?” and “How do I want to live from here?”
What’s the difference between psychotherapy and counselling?
The terms are often used interchangeably, and there is considerable overlap between them.
Counselling is commonly associated with support around a particular problem, decision or period of difficulty. Psychotherapy can include this, while also allowing for deeper exploration of the patterns, relationships, experiences and beliefs that have shaped you.
In my practice, I don’t draw a rigid line between the two. Sometimes you may need practical support with what is happening in your life now. At other times, our work may take us into deeper questions about identity, relationships, culture, meaning or longstanding patterns.
You may come for relatively short-term work around something particular, or choose to work more deeply over time. The work develops according to what you bring and what you need.
Are psychotherapy and psychology the same?
No. Psychotherapists and psychologists are different kinds of mental health practitioners, although there can be considerable overlap in the work they do.
Psychologists undertake accredited university training in psychology and may work across areas including psychological assessment, diagnosis, research and therapy.
Psychotherapists and counsellors also undertake formal tertiary and postgraduate training in therapeutic practice. Many belong to professional peak bodies such as PACFA or CAPA and are required to meet professional standards relating to training, supervision, ethical practice and ongoing professional development.
Psychotherapy tends to place particular emphasis on the therapeutic relationship and on understanding the emotional, relational and experiential patterns that shape a person’s life. Depending on their training, psychotherapists may draw from a range of therapeutic traditions.
My work is psychotherapy and counselling rather than psychology. I am an integrative practitioner, which means I draw from different therapeutic approaches according to the person sitting with me, rather than assuming that one model will fit everyone.
How do I know if I need therapy?
There isn’t a test you have to pass before you are “eligible” for therapy.
You might come because something clearly isn’t going well — perhaps you are anxious, overwhelmed, grieving, struggling in a relationship, experiencing a transition, or finding yourself caught in the same patterns again and again.
Or it may be much less definite.
Life may look fine from the outside but not feel quite right from the inside. You might be questioning who you are, what you want, where you belong, or the expectations you have been living by. You might simply have a feeling that something needs your attention.
You don’t need to arrive with a diagnosis, a crisis or even a clear explanation of what is wrong.
“I’m not quite sure, but I want to understand this” is enough of a place to begin.
How will therapy help me?
Therapy isn’t about someone giving you the answers to your life. It is a process of developing greater awareness of yourself and, with that awareness, greater capacity to choose how you want to respond.
Together, we might notice patterns that have become so familiar that they are difficult to see from inside them. We may explore the stories you have learned about yourself, the expectations you carry, how earlier experiences continue to influence the present, or how family, relationships, culture and society have shaped what you believe you are supposed to be.
Therapy can also be practical. Depending on what you need, we may work with strategies, coping skills or tools to help you manage difficult emotions, respond to stress, communicate more clearly, set boundaries, navigate relationships or approach challenging situations differently.
For me, these practical strategies are most useful when they sit alongside a deeper understanding of what is happening for you. The aim is not simply to help you cope better with a pattern that keeps repeating, but also to understand that pattern and create more choice around it.
Over time, therapy can help you understand yourself with greater clarity, develop ways of responding that feel more helpful, and live in a way that feels more congruent with who you are.
The aim isn’t to create a perfected version of you. It is to give you more room to live your life consciously, practically and authentically.
How long will therapy take?
There isn’t a standard length of time because people come to therapy for different reasons.
I usually see clients fortnightly. Some people come for relatively short-term work around a particular experience, transition or difficulty. Others find that they want the time and space to explore longstanding patterns, relationships, identity or earlier experiences more deeply.
I believe the therapeutic relationship itself is central to meaningful therapy – in the words often attributed to psychotherapist Irvin Yalom, “It’s the relationship that heals.” The early sessions therefore aren’t about rushing to get somewhere. They give us time to get to know one another and begin establishing a therapeutic relationship grounded in trust and safety.
From there, we can regularly consider how the work is developing and whether it continues to be useful to you. Therapy isn’t something you sign up to indefinitely. You retain agency over how long we work together.
How will I know when therapy is done?
Therapy doesn’t necessarily end because every difficulty in your life has disappeared. Life will continue to be complicated, uncertain and sometimes painful.
Instead, you may begin to notice that something has shifted.
Perhaps you understand yourself differently. A pattern that once seemed automatic has become something you can recognise and choose how to respond to. You may feel more able to sit with difficult emotions, make decisions, establish boundaries, communicate what you need, or live with uncertainty.
Sometimes you simply reach a point where you feel, “I can take it from here.”
Ending therapy is part of the therapeutic relationship too. When that time comes, we can talk about it together and bring our work to a thoughtful close.
What happens in a therapy room?
Mostly, we talk.
But therapy isn’t quite the same as an ordinary conversation.
You don’t need to entertain me, look after me, have something interesting to say or arrive with an agenda. You can talk about what has happened since we last met, something from many years ago, a relationship, a thought you can’t shake, something you have read, a dream, a question — or simply the feeling that you don’t know what to talk about today.
I will ask questions, and some of those questions may probe more deeply, challenge an assumption or gently confront something that seems important. At times, I may invite you to look at a familiar story from another angle, notice a contradiction, stay with an uncomfortable feeling, or consider something you may have been avoiding.
The intensity of this work varies. Some clients need a gentler pace and more time to build trust and safety. Others are ready for more direct exploration and challenge. I pay attention to the therapeutic relationship and to what you are able and willing to work with at that point in time.
We might also notice what you are experiencing in your body, what is happening between us in the room, or how a familiar pattern may be showing up in the therapeutic relationship itself.
And sometimes what is needed is simply enough space for you to hear yourself think.
Silence is allowed too.
What does a therapist or counsellor “do”?
I listen — but not passively.
I listen to what you are saying and sometimes to what may be harder to say. I ask questions, notice patterns, reflect things back to you and offer different ways of understanding an experience.
At times I may gently challenge an assumption or invite you to become curious about something you have taken for granted. We might explore where a particular belief came from, whether it still serves you, or whose expectations you may be carrying.
I won’t tell you how you should live your life. Nor do I assume that I know you better than you know yourself.
My role is to bring my training, experience, attention and curiosity to our work together, and to help create a relationship in which there is enough trust and safety for you to explore, question and understand yourself more fully.
Do I have to talk about my past?
No.
Your past can help us understand how some of the patterns, beliefs and ways of relating that are present today came to be. But therapy doesn’t require you to tell me everything that has happened to you, and you don’t have to talk about experiences before you feel ready.
Sometimes our work will stay very much with what is happening in your life now. At other times, something in the present may lead us naturally towards an earlier experience.
We can be curious about the past without becoming trapped in it. You have a say in where we go, how deeply we explore and the pace at which we do so.
Will you understand my cultural background?
I won’t assume that I do.
Our experiences are shaped by many things — family, culture, language, gender, migration, community, social expectations and the places in which we have learned what it means to belong.
Living within or across cultures can add another layer. Sometimes we find ourselves negotiating different values, identities and expectations: who we are within our family or culture, who we are in the wider world, and who we are becoming for ourselves.
You shouldn’t have to leave those parts of yourself outside the therapy room.
I bring cultural curiosity to my work rather than assuming expertise in another person’s experience. If something matters to how you understand yourself and your world, there is room for us to talk about it.
And if I don’t understand something, I would rather ask than assume.
What do I bring to my sessions?
You don’t need to prepare for therapy.
There is no homework you have to complete beforehand and no requirement to arrive knowing exactly what you want to talk about.
Bring whatever is present for you that day.
That might be a problem you want to work through, something that happened during the week, a question you’ve been thinking about, an emotion you don’t understand, or something you suddenly remembered on the way to the session.
Some people bring notes, journal entries, books, poems, photographs or other things that have prompted reflection. You’re welcome to do that too, but you don’t need to.
And if you arrive saying, “I have no idea what I want to talk about today,” we can begin there.
Ready to Begin?
If you’re feeling called to find clarity, to move from “what’s wrong” to “what can be”, to stop “putting up with” and to attend to the vital things you have put aside till now…
You don’t need to have the answers. You just need to bring your honest self, even if that self feels unsure, weary, or stuck.