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Lotus Embodied Therapy

Lotus is a counselling practice providing support and evidence based treatment to adults and adolescents.

We are located within an allied health clinic in the heart of Caloundra founded by an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker🪷

15/10/2025

🌿 Standing Together Against Sexual Violence 🌿

October is Sexual Violence Awareness Month (SVAM) – a time for communities across Queensland to come together, raise awareness, and stand in solidarity with survivors.

This year on the Sunshine Coast, Laurel Place are inviting our community to join a walk to raise awareness about sexual violence. I’ll be putting my joggers on and walking alongside survivors, advocates, and allies because ending sexual violence requires all of us.

I’ll also be hosting an information stall with Lotus Embodied Therapy – my counselling service dedicated to providing a safe and supportive space for survivors of sexual violence. My work is grounded in compassion, trauma-informed care, and the belief that healing happens through connection and safety.

If you’re attending, please come say hello, learn more about the supports available, or simply share in the conversation. Together, we can challenge stigma and create communities where everyone feels safe and valued.

💜 Whether you join the walk, share a resource, or start a conversation every action matters.

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05/10/2025

New blog post up on our website 🩷

13/09/2025

Today I got the privilege to speak at a local women’s only gym on the Sunshine Coast called about the mental load and the impact this has on our capacity to stay connected and present. This gym has built an incredible community where women feel supported to be their authentic selves!

One of the ways to think about how we carry the mental load is through the ‘window of tolerance.’ Humans have a default to often overestimate risk and underestimate our ability to cope. The window of tolerance gives us a framework that shows us this is space where you’re able to cope with everyday stress while staying regulated and connected with yourself – manage the default to look for threat. When the mental load gets too heavy, it can push you outside of that window. You might notice you’re running on edge, feeling anxious or irritable - or, on the other end, shutting down, feeling flat, or disconnected. Therapy provides a safe relational space to notice where you are, understand what your body and mind are doing, and gradually expand that window so you have more capacity to cope with what life asks of you.

So if you’ve ever felt like you’re being held together by sheer willpower, please know you don’t have to keep carrying the load alone. Therapy can be the place where you learn to share it, shift it, and begin to feel steadier again .embodiedtherapy 🪷

19/08/2025

The special little things that make a space feel comfortable 🩷

14/08/2025

You might’ve heard the phrase “Window of Tolerance” , but what does it actually look like in real life? Your window of tolerance is the zone where your nervous system feels regulated enough for you to function, think, feel, and connect.

When you’re inside that window, you might feel:
✔️ Grounded
✔️ Present in your body
✔️ Able to cope with life’s ups and downs without shutting down or spiralling

But when life gets stressful, especially if you’re carrying trauma... your nervous system can slip outside the window, into:

⬆️ Hyperarousal (fight/flight)
You feel anxious, on edge, restless, overwhelmed, reactive, or panicky.
You might snap at loved ones, overwork, or feel like your mind won’t stop racing.

⬇️ Hypoarousal (freeze/shut down)
You feel flat, numb, spacey, disconnected, or exhausted.
You might cancel plans, zone out, doom scroll, or wonder why you “don’t feel anything”.

Curious what your window of tolerance feels like? Or want to explore how to gently expand it? Therapy can help you widen your window of tolerance and feel more at home in your body. This is the kind of work I support clients with every day. Reach out if you’re ready.

11/08/2025

The couch that has heard all the unsaid, the unraveling and the rebuilding.

Feeling extra grateful for all my beautiful clients who trust me with their stories.

- Stace x

07/08/2025

My work is deeply inspired by the insights of Deb Dana and Dr. Nicole LePera, two women whose approaches to nervous system regulation and trauma healing have shaped the way I show up in the therapy room.

Deb Dana’s compassionate application of Polyvagal Theory has helped me support clients in understanding their nervous system as a guide, not a problem. Nicole LePera’s work makes healing feel human, accessible, and embodied... reminding us that real change happens through small, consistent acts of self-connection.

Here are 5 ways to support your body when you're outside your window of tolerance, inspired by the work of Deb Dana & Dr. Nicole LePera.

Feel free to save this post for when you may need it.

- Stacey x

31/07/2025

Healing trauma isn’t about “getting over it.”
It’s about slowly feeling safe in your body again.
It’s noticing when your nervous system says “too much”, and learning how to listen without judgement.

You don’t need to have it all together to begin.
You just need a safe space to land.

That’s what we offer at Lotus 🩷

23/06/2025

Sometimes I sit with clients who feel like they have to hold it all together…

They show up strong, composed, capable.
But underneath, they’re tired.
Exhausted from carrying the weight of being the one who copes, supports, holds everyone else.

They say things like:
“I don’t want to be a burden.”
“Other people have it worse.”
“I should be able to manage.”

And often, I just pause and remind them:
You don’t have to hold it all together here.
This space is for you.
You get to fall apart a little, or not at all. You get to just be—without pressure, without fixing, without needing a reason.

Sometimes, that alone is where healing begins. 💛

19/06/2025

Both can be true.
You can adore your children and still grieve the parts of you that feel far away now.
The freedom. The quiet. The version of you that didn’t always have to be “on.”

Motherhood can be beautiful and consuming all at once.
It’s okay to name the ache.
It’s okay to long for space that’s just yours.

This doesn’t make you a bad mother.
It makes you a whole human being.

In therapy, there’s room for all of you—the mother, the woman, the self that’s still finding her way home.

16/06/2025

“Talk therapy didn’t work for me…”

Sometimes clients come in carrying this belief - with a bit of shame or frustration, like they must’ve done it wrong.

But here’s the thing:
It’s not always about talking more. Sometimes, we need a different way in.

At Lotus Embodied Therapy, we blend approaches - because healing doesn’t live just in the mind. It lives in the nervous system. In breath. In tension. In sensation.

Somatic work helps you connect to what words can’t always reach.
And talk therapy gives language and meaning to what your body already knows.

Both can be powerful.
Together, they can be transformative. 💛

12/06/2025

Therapy is definitely not only tears...

Sometimes it’s laughter.
Sometimes it’s silence.
Sometimes it’s just a deep breath you didn’t know you needed.

Therapy can be messy, still, awkward, warm, light, or deeply moving.
There’s no right way to “do” it.

Whatever shows up in the room is welcome - because you are.

Address

Sunshine Coast, QLD

Opening Hours

Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

Website

https://www.lotusembodiedtherapy.com.au/

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