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Amy Doyle

Holistic counsellor | Brisbane & Online
Amy is based in Sandgate, Brisbane and works with thoughtful people who want to understand themselves more clearly.

She offers individual counselling and small-group workshops.
👇 Counselling + resources Counsellor. Mentor. Wife. Mother. Speaker. Living and breathing Gentle Boldness.

13/05/2026

When I was told focussing on belief work could help me this year, I brushed it aside. However life had other plans because it kept knocking at my door.

A few months ago I was sitting with my mentor, stuck on something I knew I needed to do but couldn't quite move toward.

She stopped me. Instead of problem-solving, we paused and worked with a belief that had quietly surfaced.

What started as "I can't do this" softened... without effort, without forcing and led to "I am doing this." And then a phrase arrived that I didn't expect... 'What I want, wants me.'

I felt it land in my body, I felt the hesitation, the tension arise before allowing it to drop and work its magic. Multiple times a day afterwards, the words kept appearing. The tension, the striving it just dropped away. It was the second time I have personally experienced with full awareness that the right sentence at the right time acts like a homeopathic remedy.

That's the power of belief work when done gently, not pushed or performed but gently met.

I wrote more about this on the blog - what belief work actually looks like, why compassion matters more than technique, and why it found me before I went looking for it.

Link in bio or visit amydoyle.com.au

11/05/2026

Have you ever felt like there’s something other people naturally understand that you somehow missed? So you go hunting for it, convinced that if you could just find it, maybe you too could have the life, success, ease, or recognition they seem to possess.

Sometimes I think that’s been the story of my adult life.

And somewhere in all of it is the blurry line between truly knowing yourself and trying to become someone the world approves of, someone it is willing to pay.

Sometimes following someone else’s process only teaches you who you are not. That too is self-discovery I suppose, just not in the nice, neat little package our minds desired.

I think part of me is afraid of sharing myself with the world because I fear my original intent will become distorted by advice, feedback, opinions, shaped into something no longer my own.
.. just some wondering thoughts from a Saturday morning, with coffee in hand, and the glorious sun out the window...

Full reflection at www.amydoyle.com.au

06/05/2026

I've spent most of my adult life in summer energy. Always building, always adding. Leaning more into Autumn each year teaches me something different.

There's a part of me that always wants to add more... more learning, more skills, more modalities, more understanding. Just one more course, one more book, one more layer.

Autumn helps me interrupt that pattern of adding. Instead, it asks '𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩'𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙣'𝙩 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙣𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙚 𝙮𝙚𝙩?'

I'm practising that this season... well actually maybe all year. Not what's next but what's here already. What's been quietly growing that I keep walking past on the way to the next thing. There's more in there than I usually give myself credit for. I suspect the same is true for you.

03/05/2026

I almost left. I'd been hurt, so I went silent and started planning my exit.

When a mentor hurt my feelings I did what I always did... I went silent, quietly simmered and raged. In my head I was leaving, I was done. I sulked and talked myself into why it would be the best move.

I sat with it for two weeks and oh the reasons I had were so convincing. But... somewhere underneath all of it, I knew this wasn't really about her. It was an older wound, and I knew that I could do what I always did or I could do something different... I could stay and do the uncomfortable - I could tell her what happened and let her in to my world.

I arrived, shaky, nervous... before the words could come out I was a blubbering mess. But through the tears, I managed to tell her what had happened and how it had hurt me.

She didn't defend herself or explain it away, instead she held me in it. Showed me what repair actually looked and felt like. That moment changed something, not because she said the right thing, but because she stayed with me. She didn't tell me that I was silly or wrong, she witnessed me in a raw, brave moment of vulnerability.

This is what counselling can be... Not the perfect response but a person who doesn't leave when things are hard and uncomfortable. A new model of how things can be.

If you want to know more about how I work, visit amydoyle.com.au

29/04/2026

𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝘂𝗿𝗴𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀? 𝗔𝗻𝘅𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆? 𝗠𝗮𝘆𝗯𝗲 𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘀 𝗶𝘁'𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗺𝗻 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗼𝗻 𝘂𝘀.

There's something that happens around this time of year.

The to-do list gets longer, the pace picks up and a quiet urgency arrives - finish this, sort that, get it in place before something shifts. It can feel like pressure... but also maybe it's our body moving in tune with the season.

Autumn does this, it's like a rushing to harvest what we can so that we can move towards the season of rest. Everything feels like it needs to be tied up right now because something in us knows that winter is coming and we want to arrive prepared and a little lighter.

A question Autumn asks underneath all that busyness isn't always what do I need to do... It's also, what am I still carrying that I could put down? What belief, story or version of myself have I outgrown? What parts of me need to be in conversation to move towards a common goal?

I wrote about this more on the blog - what this season actually invites, and some prompts to sit with as the mornings cool.

26/04/2026

𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗜 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗸𝗲𝗽𝘁 𝗴𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴. 𝗜 𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗻'𝘁 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.

I didn't have words for what I was doing back then. I wasn't falling apart. Nothing was dramatically wrong.

I just kept going. Kept showing up. Kept playing the role. Kept moving so I didn't have to feel what was underneath.

I thought that was just... adult life.

It wasn't. It was a pattern. And the pattern had one job... make sure no one (including me) saw what I was carrying.

Here's what I know now that I didn't know then. The hollow feeling wasn't the problem. It was a signal... something underneath asking to be seen.

And the woman who learns to listen to that signal instead of outrunning it? She doesn't fix herself. She just stops pretending she's fine when she isn't. Slowly, imperfectly, one small moment of honesty at a time.

If any of this sounds familiar, you're not behind. You're just at the beginning of a different kind of paying attention.

16/03/2024

More Autumn vibes from me today… swipe for Autumn bingo and some of my favorite practices for letting go (and so much more). ❤️

16/03/2024

Saboteurs that use assertiveness to get what they want (independence, acceptance or security) look like:

🥊 Controlling: taking charge and controlling situations and people’s actions - often at the cost of other feeling controlled and resentful.

🥊 Hyper achieving: seeking validation and respect from others (and also self) through constant performance and achievement - often at the cost of happiness and deep connection with self and others.

🥊 Restlessness: constantly searching for greater excitement or constantly busy - often leading to surface level fun and relationships; and projects with unsustainable foundations.

Have you checked out the free Self Sabotaging Quiz on my website yet? Link in the bio.

15/03/2024

So it’s 6 days to go until Autumn Moon gently pulls us into the season. And I can see all these Autumn Equinox themes playing out in my life and those of my clients in different ways.

🍂 Some are gathering strength, going inwards, ready for rebirth
🍂 Others are taking stock of their lives and realigning with purpose and values
🍂 Many are feeling disconnected from themselves and their partners and working on deeper connections
🍂 So many are looking at family bonds and family tension
🍂 Others are looking into their anxiety and loneliness
🍂 Others intently looking for moments of deeper gratitude and appreciation
🍂 Some exploring patterns of disappointment and connecting with their inner child

Are you noticing these Autumn themes playing out in your life too?

13/03/2024

Every time I enter my workspace, there is a part of me that I touch in with. The young teenage girl who felt like she had no one to talk to, no one to sit with and certainly no place that she could just be with all her messy emotions without them being a problem to solve, or something to move on from.

I remember feeling so alone and so unsure of the pain I felt inside. I didn’t understand the intense feelings nor was I equipped to actually feel them.

I didn’t know that people like me now existed. I didn’t know that there were spaces to go where I could be with my feelings and express my thoughts and not be judged for them. I thought I had to do it all alone, I thought I just had to get on with it, which meant that I actually repressed a lot of myself.

This is why I do what I do. I was led to do this work by my desire to ensure that my kids never felt like that, however I didn’t realize what I would uncover within myself. A craft that is so deeply fulfilling on so many levels, and something that I feel so compelled to share with the world so they too can look after those younger parts that so desperately needed someone to see them.

12/03/2024

At some point in your childhood or teenagehood you realised you had to survive emotionally… Even if you didn’t have a difficult childhood, life would have still presented many challenges where you felt the need to protect yourself.

…sick parents, family issues, other siblings or school kids favoured over you, others taller, smarter, faster or funnier then you… failure… rejection… betrayal… abuse… injuries… death… world issues… and so on.

In order to protect yourself, you developed internal protectors. The ones that promised to keep you safe. And for a time whatever mental strategies (conscious or unconscious) you put in place seemed to work.

Yet, enter adulthood… these same mental strategies that kept you safe back then, are likely to be wreaking havoc on your life… keeping you stuck in stress, anxiety and overwhelm.

Perhaps some have quietly lingered in the background, others more prevalent to the point where you accept that may just be who you are.

We all have these protectors, there’s no need to hide it! It’s more about exposing the one’s that sit in the driver’s seat of your life and disarming them so you can feel more love, joy, empathy and compassion.

Stay tuned over the next week as we discover more about these 9 Saboteurs that either demand, earn or avoid in order to fulfill your needs for independence, acceptance and security. Or check out the new self sabotaging quiz in bio link .

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