Adv Dip.App Sci. (Naturopathy) Grad dip Couns.Human Services. MA Couns.Human Services. PACFA Reg. NAAPOC, ARCAP ANZICA
I firmly believe compassionate, early counselling intervention for all reproductive trauma events, including unbiased abortion support will establish parents both today and in the future with the best possible outcomes for managing the unexpected realities if they do, when they do and during having their babies.
I have a unique breadth of experience and now specialise across the full spectrum of fertility matters and associated losses in supporting women and their families. This can include unplanned pregnancy and unbiased, decision-making counselling, abortion support, pregnancy issues, infertility & IVF, birth trauma, antenatal and postnatal anxiety and or depression, hysterectomy & health- related reproductive matters. Nothing holds greater value than another because in my world all fertile matters matter.
Where I have come from…
My passion and commitment to work in the perinatal period arose out of 15 years combined practice in unplanned pregnancy and abortion support at Pregnancy Advisory Service at the Women’s Hospital in Melbourne & Marie Stopes National Counselling Team, with infertility at Fertile Ground Health Group, in perinatal mental health at PANDA (Perinatal Anxiety and Depression Australia) in the Victorian and South Australian Intensive Program and on the National Helpline & at Carrington Health’s Community Outreach Perinatal Support Service. This was all very unplanned and I believe this work found me. I had to earn the privilege and honour of doing what I do.
How might my expertise benefit you…
I have gained such a wealth of knowledge about sitting with the discomfort of life’s challenges, particularly in the perinatal realm and the grief this may evoke. In the counseling room I sit solidly by your side whilst you feel the big emotions and gently guide you toward greater comfort and peace in reconciling with such harsh realities. You will no longer be alone because you have taken that step to ask for help and I know how courageous that feels.
My lived experience…
I cannot support you if I have not felt what it takes to reach out myself. I have been in the uncertainty of vulnerability and had to do it anyway. It is not easy and I hold great compassion and awe at what is revealed to me and sometimes to only me. I know that I must earn your trust and cannot be further ahead of you in meeting your needs. It is why I am by your side, with you, completely.
Where you can find me...
Fertile Ground Health Group - Mondays 3-7pm & Wednesdays 8am-12pm
Albert Street Medical Centre,Suite 3 Level 6, 372-376 Albert Street, East Melbourne VIC 3002. (03) 9419 9988
Eltham Health & Wellness - Wednesday 2-8pm
Thompson’s Pharmacy, 962/964 Main Rd, Eltham VIC 3095. (03) 9431 5505
By Appointment at other times - 0402 407 925